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Craig Hertsgaard MNDak Testimony to North Dakota Legislative Budget Section

October 4, 2014October 4, 2014adminLeave a Comment

This is a federal project designed to have federal participation, but the federal government has no money. The continuing budget resolution funding the government in Washington has had a ban on new project construction funding for the last four years, with no end in sight. If you read the letter to the White House from the Minnesota governor, you’ll see he is requesting that no money or support be given to the diversion project, at least until the DNR is done with their study.

Fargo Forum Attacks Minnesota DNR

July 25, 2014July 25, 2014Marcus Larson3 Comments

The pace and push for the proposed Fargo Dam and FM Diversion is the very essence of corruption. It is the melting pot of decisions made under duress due to time constraints with a constant overstatement of impacts and a manufactured EOE study to set Fargo’s flood gage as the benchmark for the entire Red River Valley.

Fargo Diversion Authority Ducks Unlimited 404 Permit Deal

July 15, 2014April 29, 2018admin1 Comment

Bruce Spiller: “…correct, when we were in final phase with the Corps we tried to get this moved now uhh, now that we have authorization to try to get mitigation because we are going to have extra wetlands on the whole project, um, and tried to get it to separate it and they basically came back with we wouldn’t get a permit if we didn’t go to this.”

Comstock MN Diversion Meeting with Richland Wilkin JPA

January 24, 2014January 24, 2014admin3 Comments

From a political standpoint, Fargo’s attempt to move impacts onto property owners outside city limits and away from voting constituency while simultaneously preventing impacted stakeholders from having a non-conflict of interest vote at the table – underscores the greed and corrupt nature of the proposed project at hand.