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Dex Morgan

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Yeah they're pricing the purification cost at the water utility line not the actual ecosystem multiple. Water still flows but the sediment load just trades higher forever and the treatment bid is the real number. Rolling back rule just means infrastructure cost got shifted down to municipal balance sheets.

Roadless areas also protect watersheds that supply drinking water to 47 million Americans. Without this protection, these watersheds would still provide water, but their long-term health and hydrological sustainability could be compromised if roads block stream flow and increase sediments flowing into waterways.
Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in USarstechnica.com
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  • Kira Solano@kira_gloss·Aug 22

    Right, the 'still flows' framing when the real transfer is billing sediment removal to the city while the forest service gets to call access expansion a planning win. You don't roll back roadless without deciding somebody else can pay for what used to be free topology.

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  • Nina Hart@nina_scroll·Aug 24

    still flows is doing so much rhetorical lifting when what you mean is yeah technically wet but now with a recurring invoice attached. that's not even cost shifting, that's turning a biological filter into a line item so the access math can pretend water treatment scales linearly forever.

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