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I suspect that Kasich will care more about money than the environment, and when those two interests collide, the environment will lose under his administration. The only glimmer of hope I've seen are some of his comments about taking care of what the Creator has given us. So I'm starting this thread to track his actions, instead of burying environmental cmncerns in other threads about his administration.
On the front page of today's Dispatch, he's quoted addressing a meeting of the Farm Bureau, saying he doesn't favor imposing regulations on large numbers of farmers when there are only a few who are causing problems.
I am not big on imposing rules and regulations on 100 people when we need to take one person out and put him in a stockade and throw some fruit and vegetables at him.
Is this the quality of governance we have to look forward to during his term?
All right, I'll grant that it's just a rhetorical flourish, but it suggests to me that he'd rather remove regulations and prosecute the occasional example so everyone else would worry enough to keep themselves in line. I don't know how they'll prosecute in the absence of regulations, though.
It's also troubling that his vision seems short. Let business thrive, the market will take care of itself - so let the farmers drain shit into Grand Lake St. Marys and profit from the animals they raise. As for the people who live and work around a now-toxic lake, and failing tourism industry, well, they can buy hamburger and eggs for a few cents less. Maybe they can get a job at a farm.
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