Close to one half million living healthy trees to be cut down around San Francisco!!

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56. Much agree, Emelina.

sadly many DU'ers posting on this thread confuse the Sierra Club with Green Peace.

I doubt any of them have ever taken the time to sit down and read a single environmental impact report, generated by those agencies and interests that want to cut down the trees.

As an activist, I have in years past read such impact reports, and they were filled with egregious errors. Those errors were the reason activists in Marin County were so often able to stop the efforts to strip trees away from areas where they had been for decades if not centuries.

And a few more comments:

The Sierra Club is to the environment as Dianne Feinstein is to progressive politics.

They will embrace wherever the money is. Their policies are for corporations.

But when needing funding to run as a political candidate or when needing to have members to boost their subscription monies, they will chant progressive slogans.

I don't mean to totally slam the Sierra Club - if you are single and wanting to meet a mate, joining the Sierra Club and then going on their hikes is a lovely way to meet other singles.

But politically I have lost respect for them - going back to 1997!

The damn god forsaken Sierra Club wanted MTBE in Californians' gasoline.

I know this as I was an activist in the trenches. I became the first journalist in northern Calif to have an article about the dangers of MTBE be published through the indie monthly newspaper "The Coastal Post."I spent over 15 hours of my time trying to let them know how wrong they were on the issue of the noxious gas additive MTBE. (An issue that consumed me from, 1997 to 200.)

I tried talking to their researchers. I tried talking to their lawyers. I was stone walled every single step of the way. When I did reach anyone in power, they just let me know that they were relying on the one thousand industry studies that showed that it was okay.

I finally gave up and avoided them. I did continue to spend a great deal of time travelling between my home in Sausalito and the State capital and met with John Marchand and John Froines.


At this point in time we had a wonderful governor, Gov Davis, a real and committed "D". He was convinced that it was bad.

Now had Davis or the state of California looked at the issue of MTBE's risk or safety, according to the many many "scientific studies, which numbered over a thousand, we would still have that toxin our gasoline, destroying our health, our water and our air. There were thousands of studies showing that MTBE was fine. Meanwhile there were only TWO accredited studies that showed it is a poison. However those two were correct. While the other "thousands of studies" were bogus.

He appointed John Froines to head up an indie study regarding MTBE. This panel that Froines headed was known as the Blue Ribbon Panel on MTBE.

This panel proved the dangers of MTBE. Froines released his conclusion to an assembled group of legislators and activists. His main thesis was that in terms of risk to benefit, MTBE was all risk and NO benefit. (Which was exactly what we activists were saying, exactly 180 degrees opposed to what the Sierra CLub maintained.)

To make matters worse, The Sierra CLub has gone on to say, being a complete fan of dishonesty, that it always maintained that MTBE was bad. LIARS!

They are a completely untrustworthy group of people. (I mean, -- The people at the top, their lawyers bureaucrats etc - though again their lowly volunteers and their social hike docents are fine.)