Connecticut River is raised 8 inches for Gore "rowboat" photo-op; "Environmentalist" Veep  wastes 4 billion gallons, worth $7.1 million

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If you thought Clinton's anti-OHV polices were bad, you haven't seen a thing yet. Al Gore is a dirty, arrogant, disgusting supporter of enviro terror and extremism. He holds the life of a tree above that of a human being. His lies and dishonesty wrote a new chapter in illegal campaign contributions. He has stated a "Strategic Goal" of banning the internal combustion engine by year 2020 and breaching hydroelectric damns to restore natural paths of rivers. Undoubtedly, Al Gore, if elected, will lead our great nation into a new Dark Age. Please read on with us each month to see why we must Defeat Al Gore in the 2000 Elections.

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"Americans in every region and in both political parties have been shaken by the betrayal of public trust ... and the dishonesty of the public officials."...

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Gore must be talking about the standards he'd apply to a Republican White House! After all, he referred to Clinton as "one of our greatest presidents" at the White House Post-Impeachment Pep Rally on December 29, 1998!

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A passage from Al Gore's book, "Earth in the Balance," as quoted in the Austin American-Statesman on August 16, 1998, in an article by David A. Ridnenour:
"The Pacific Yew can be cut down and processed to produce a potent chemical, taxol, which offers some promise of curing certain forms of lung, breast and ovarian cancer in patients who would otherwise quickly die."

"It seems an easy choice -- sacrifice the tree for a human life -- until one learns that three trees must be destroyed for each patient treated."

Calling Eco-Terrorists Not Radical Enough "Modern industrial civilization, as presently organized, is colliding violently with our planet's ecological system. The ferocity of its assault on the earth is breathtaking, and the horrific consequences are occurring so quickly as to defy our capacity to recognize them, comprehend their global implications, and organize an appropriate and timely response. Isolated pockets of resistance fighters who have experienced this juggernaut at first hand have begun to fight back in inspiring but, in the final analysis, woefully inadequate ways."
SOURCE: Al Gore "Earth in the Balance" P. 269

Eco-Hypocrisy

Connecticut River is raised 8 inches for Gore "rowboat" photo-op; "Environmentalist" Veep  wastes 4 billion gallons, worth $7.1 million

WASHINGTON (July 23) - What's it take to float Vice President Al Gore's boat?  4 billion gallons of water, that's what - at a cost of more than $7.1 million.  All for a good cause, however (at least according to the "environmentalist" Vice President), since it provided Gore a photo-opportunity to highlight a $100,000 grant to the Connecticut River Joint Commission.

According to The Washington Times and The Associated Press, the Secret Service and the Connecticut River Joint Commission directed Pacific Gas & Electric to unleash approximately 4 billion gallons of water yesterday into the Connecticut River so Gore's rowboat wouldn't get stuck during a 4-mile photo opportunity.  The release of the 4 billion gallons from a dam upstream raised the level of the river by 8 to 10 inches, and has drawn the ire of environmental officials in the region.

"They won't release the water for the fish when we ask them to, but somehow they find themselves able to release it for a politician," said Vermont Department of Natural Resources Director John Kassel in The Times.  Kassel, who accompanied Gore on the trip, said that "the only reason they did this was to make sure the Vice President's canoe didn't get stuck."

"It was a bit artificial, to be honest with you," Kassel told The Times.  "But the river was pretty dry and no one wanted the canoes to be dragging on the bottom.  Vice President Gore's people were concerned that we not raise the level too high, either, because they didn't want it to be dangerous."

"So much for the environmentalist Vice President," remarked Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson.  Citing Gore's book, "Earth in the Balance," Nicholson recalled that Gore "once lectured us that 'increasing per capita use' of fresh water, combined with 'global climate change,' could lead to 'poverty, hunger, and disease,' 'revolutionary political disorder,' and 'wars fought over natural resources like fresh water.'" ("Earth in the Balance," pp. 111, 113, 279)

According to revised federal standards contained in the 1992 National Energy Policy Act and supported by the Clinton-Gore administration, toilets manufactured after 1994 must have a maximum capacity of 1.6 gallons.  Under those standards, Nicholson jokingly noted, Gore's 4 billion gallon photo-opportunity wasted the equivalent of 2.5 billion toilet flushes, or 2,110 flushes for each of New Hampshire's 1,185,000 residents.

According to water usage rates published by the Pennichuck Water Works, Inc., which serves the region, the value of the 4 billion gallons wasted was approximately $7.1 million, Nicholson said.

Courtesy of the RNC Research Division.

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Tipper, Canoe & Al Gore, Too
Source URL: http://www.junkscience.com/july99/canoe.htm


This story is shorthand for the way radical environmentalists like Al Gore always operate - they make all kinds of rules for the rest of us, but give themselves an exception.

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  • Gore criticizes using water for irrigation: In his book, Earth in the Balance, Gore complains that three quarters of the fresh water used by humans is used for irrigation, and how, he says, three-fifths of all irrigation water is wasted.
  • He criticizes using water for agriculture to feed people, but wastes 4 billion gallons for a photo opportunity
  • He tells YOU not to water your lawn - But at 2.5 gallons per minute, you'd have to water your lawn 7 days a week, 24-hours a day for 3,042 YEARS to use up 4 billion gallons !
  • He passes LAWS telling you how much water your toilet can use - but based on the new standards Gore and the other environmentalists helped push into law (1.6 gallons per flush), you'd have to flush 2.5 BILLION TIMES to waste as much water as Al Gore just did !
  • Gore says YOU don't deserve a tax cut, but wastes $7.1 million on this. Al Gore won't let you get back 27 cents of every dollar you've overpaid Washington, but this "stunt" wasted $7.1 million in water usage fees.
  • It costs $1.33 for 748 gallons of water in New Hampshire. By wasting 180,000 gallons per second, Al Gore's photo op cost $320.05 every second - that's almost as much as the average New Hampshire family earns in a WEEK ($306.90).
  • Of COURSE He Knew About This. Gore SAYS he and his Advance Team didn't know anything about this, but the truth is, his Advance Team MUST have known he couldn't row a boat in 6 to 8 inches of water!
  • This isn't the FIRST time this has happened - back in 1996, his team ordered 96 million gallons of the South Platte River for a photo op. We say he "tapped the Rockies!"
  • Al Gore always claims he didn't know what was going on - he didn't know it was a Buddhist Temple Fundraiser, he didn't know it was wrong to use government phones to shake down corporate CEO's for money, he didn't know Bill Clinton was lying to him.

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    August 2, 1999 Volume 04 Issue 31
    *** Rollin' down the river:

    You have to love that Vice President Al Gore urges Americans to protect the environment, but when it comes time for a photo opportunity with a fellow Democrat, no conservation measure is left standing. When Gore went canoeing on the Connecticut River last week with New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen, the Secret Service and the Joint Commission responsible for the river asked the local utilities to release water from a dam to raise the level of the river. After all, Gore and company wouldn't have much fun on the drought-affected waterway if their canoe were scraping bottom the whole way.

    Gore's campaign team denied that they had anything to do with the water release. But Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson was quick to point out that Gore's advance team "had to know" that authorities were planning to raise the level of the river. In fact, the GOP finger-pointer says that Gore had done the same darn thing in Nicholson's home state of Colorado in March 1996. "He 'tapped the Rockies' for 96 million gallons for a photo op ... [releasing] water from the Chatfield Reservoir so Gore could stand in front of a roaring South Platte River -- instead of a dry riverbed." Nicholson estimated that 4 billion gallons were released into the low Connecticut River.

    Gore's team countered that "only" 591 million gallons were let go.

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