Special Kind of Stupid
It takes a special kind of stupid to buy into another empty promise issued by Fargo, Cass County, the Diversion Authority and the Corps of Engineers.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties January 3rd, 2013
Diversion Authority Chair and Cass County Commissioner Darrell Vanyo said, “To give the Kindred School District (the) monies may establish a precedent for the future reduction through the whole process of building the diversion”. In other words, they don’t want to pay the real cost of the diversion, and they won’t if they can help it.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties December 27th, 2012
Last week, the Diversion Authority told the Kindred School District, they wouldn’t pay for lost tax revenue caused by Fargo’s threats to force water south of town. They said the rest of Kindred’s taxpayers should foot the bill.
Continue ReadingProponents’ Stubbornness Threatens Diversion
Forum Communications cites the permanent flood protection provided by the Sheyenne Diversion as a factor contributing to the healthy growth of West Fargo, N.D. And that is probably the case. But not all diversions look alike.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties December 20th, 2012
Faced with a problem of their own creation, Fargo leaders devised a way to push the problem onto someone else. The dam would flood the rural communities to Fargo’s south with 200,000 acre of water. Fargo leaders want to eliminate this flood plain, not for protection, but for Fargo’s future development: more bricks in the cake pan.
Continue ReadingJ&K Taxidermy letter to MNDak Upstream Coalition
Never did we think that the diversion authority would have taken this project as far as they have. The more we learn the more this proposed diversion makes absolutely no sense at all.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties December 12th, 2012
The Corps of Engineers has rejected any use of distributed retention as part of the project and instead has mandated its own dam and reservoir. In fact, the dam and reservoir component causes harm to farmers and residents of southern Clay and northern Wilkin counties.
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties December 6th, 2012
In private meetings, Diversion Authority officers say they have tried to stop development but are not able to do so. Fargo’s insistence on developing natural flood plain is the problem. Building permits have been issued for natural flood plain areas as if it were a priority.
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Fargo does not care about anybody but themselves. I want to know, why cant Fargo go with different projects that will not cost as much or not affect so many people?
Continue ReadingDefending Richland and Wilkin counties November 29th, 2012
Imagine a city using the power of eminent domain to take a family farm against the owner’s wishes, only to turn it over to private developers to build an exclusive private golf course. Article I, Section 16, of the North Dakota Constitution specifically provides that a public use or purpose “Does not include public benefits of economic development, including an increase in tax base, tax revenues, employment, or general economic health.”
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