Green Litigation Depresses Rural Economies
“Green Litigation Depresses Household Income and threatens Jobs” that, according a recent article in the Colorado Observer ! I’m Susan Allen Open Range will be back after the break. In a recent study by two Utah professors called “Economic Impact of WildEarth Guardians Litigation on Local Communities.” ( paid for by American’s for Prosperity-Colorado) “household income drops by an average of $2,503 in communities where the non-profit group WildEarth Guardians is active in litigating environmental issues.” They utilize techniques like saturation litigation, (one ploy activist groups with deep pockets use is to keep court cases dragging on for years until their opponent in many case ranchers run out of legal expenses.) The study also reported that When comparing counties where WildEarth Guardians has intervened to those without intervention, we find that those counties having had intervention are worse off than the non-intervention counties.,” other findings: The West would take a $4 billion hit if just one group WildEarth Guardians were to achieve its goals of banning grazing, coal mining and drilling on public lands. That figure does not include the ripple effect on indirect economic activity, such as restaurants, hotels and retail outlets, * WildEarth Guardians’ anti-drilling litigation directly threatens 26,200 Western jobs in targeted counties, and $1.57 billion in related economic activity* Its fight against cattle grazing threatens 37,237 farming and ranching jobs in counties where the group is active and $662 million in local economic activity. For the full report :
http://thecoloradoobserver.com/2012/06/report-green-litigation-depresses-household-income-threatens-jobs/
