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	Name:	copperline -
	Subject:	from the AP news service 8/12/15
	Date:	5/2/2010 7:09:12 PM

Thanks for the opinion that my post was "marginally clever".

It was meant to stir up some discussion of what would happen if an environmental issue struck us here at the Lake. Everyone should be aware that as we sit here today, there is an active effort to begin strip mining on the shores of Smith Lake. And that ain't no fantasy. Too bad for those home-owners, they should have stayed away unless they could buy the mineral rights to the surrounding hills, too.

As the magnitude of the catastrophy on the Gulf materializes, I expect lots of here-to-for anti-environmentalists to line up for their legal compensations and howl about how this should have never been allowed to happen. As far as the fact that coastal drilling has been going on for a long time, please note that off shore drilling has increased in recent years... and the risks of spills increased with the number of off-shore wells drilling in deeper water. It was only a matter of time before we had a blow out.

Maybe it all boils down to this: Most of us don't much care about any issue until it's our ox that is being gored.

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from the AP news service 8/12/15 - copperline - 5/1/2010 9:55:26 AM

Silly idea - MartiniMan - 5/1/2010 10:19:17 AM

Silly idea - GoneFishin - 5/1/2010 11:44:30 AM

Silly idea - MartiniMan - 5/1/2010 11:47:02 AM

Clever Scenario - Yankee06 - 5/1/2010 1:33:28 PM

Only marginally clever - MartiniMan - 5/1/2010 4:27:30 PM

Only marginally clever - GoneFishin - 5/1/2010 8:20:58 PM

Only marginally clever - MartiniMan - 5/2/2010 8:19:53 AM

from the AP news service 8/12/15 - copperline - 5/2/2010 7:09:12 PM

from the AP news service 8/12/15 - MartiniMan - 5/2/2010 9:17:19 PM

from the AP news service 8/12/15 - Barneget - 5/2/2010 10:22:50 PM

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