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Opponents turn the tables on KFGO personality Mike McFeely attempts to debase opponents to the un-necessary boondoggle known as the Fargo Dam and FM Diversion with various marginalizing statements like “Bar Stool Engineer” which are indicative of mediocre on-air personalities seeking ratings as opposed to serving the public to find a more cost effective solution via pluralism in media.
Continue ReadingDennis “my way or the highway” Walaker and the Diversion Authority Gang plan to steal land and equity to benefit private land developers using the United States Army Corps of Engineers as “hired” guns.
Continue ReadingState Water Commission’s Chief engineer, Todd Sando, told the Senate Appropriations committee that the state can typically construct a water project for half of what a Corps project would cost.
Continue ReadingWhen the 3 a.m. summer storm comes knocking on Bakke, Hickson and Oxbow’s door with 10-20 inches of rain filling the ring-dike, who will come with the body bags to float the dead away?
Continue ReadingBiewer’s response was clear: we don’t flood, we have never flooded and we don’t need a ring dike. Fargo’s plan to spend 65 million state dollars to purchase Oxbow’s silence certainly validates Representative Skarphol’s concerns.
Continue Reading“The Corps and sponsors have invested approximately $60 million in the project through the end of fiscal year 2013,” according to Diversion Authority publicist Daron Selvig.
Continue ReadingThe residents of Oxbow, N.D., voted in January in support of a proposed ring levee as part of the Fargo-Moorhead Diversion Project. The recent action taken by the North Dakota Legislature on HB 1020 stops any chance of protection being constructed for our city and puts residents back into a state of limbo. Now our […]
Continue ReadingThe Diversion Authority wants to make a one-time payment for rights to flood the land. It would also prohibit any future construction on this property, which would create an economic dead zone south of the diversion. Once the easements are put in place, the landscape will be forever changed.
Continue ReadingImperial Fargo/Cass has looked at a substantial gift as though the glass were half empty.
Continue ReadingIn a recent February 15, 2013 Forum news article by Erik Burgess several inconsistencies have been thrust into the view of public scrutiny. In particular was the obvious mathematical errors being cited by the Forum to further support their pro-diversion agenda. Excerpt from article: Fargo Forum: “One survey submitted to the authority by Dennis Biewer, […]
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