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In his ruling, Judge Brian Morris said “the Trump administration completely disregarded the climate effects of building the Keystone pipeline,” according to Vermont law professor Pat Parenteau.
“The Trump administration dismissed, with barely a paragraph in the decision document they issued, the whole idea that the pipeline would be contributing to climate change and the judge said that's not good enough,” Parenteau explains. “[He said], ‘You really do have to take into account the growing body of science that we all know and you have to explain why it makes sense, given that, to authorize yet another major piece of fossil fuel infrastructure that will take 40 years to pay off.’”
Morris is a former justice on the Montana Supreme Court and is considered a “very moderate judge,” Parenteau adds. “He’s hardly a radical environmentalist. There are some judges on the federal bench who are more pro-environment ..., but Judge Morris isn’t in that same category.”
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @06:18PM (2 children)
Hold on here - this would take a huge number of people working on concert to make it happen. Do you mean to tell me that you honestly believe that there could possibly exist a group of people that large who can competently do such a thing?
Have you never seen a committee in action? Or a functional Dev/Ops/Mgmt group? Or even a batch of siblings who could work together for more than a day or two without falling off message or simply falling out?
I'm sorry, I can't buy it. Not even gibbons could manage that, and they're far more civilized and cooperative than humans.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @06:33PM (1 child)
wow, you're ignorant of this matter. look into it and you will see the op is right and i thought this was more commonly known. i guess you think all the shows and movies depicting law enforcement and gov agencies as the good guys (all all the other points they weasel into everything) are just good folks making good shows about other good folks? are you f'in serious?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @09:47PM
Nahh, it's not that at all. I just have an overdeveloped belief in Napoleon's Dictum: "Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence."
There's no huge conspiracy - they can't hold together, people just aren't wired that way. It's FAR more likely that it's a bunch of people screwing up royally but with the best of intentions.