Comments on: Age of Consent http://www.enviroreporter.com/2009/11/age-of-consent/ Thu, 17 May 2012 20:57:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jennifer Shaw http://www.enviroreporter.com/2009/11/age-of-consent/#comment-387 Jennifer Shaw Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:25:11 +0000 http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=6401#comment-387 Hello old friends from Simi. I just wanted to tell you that I've read a ton of these DTSC agreements in the last 20 years, and generally they are full of loopholes drafted at the insistence of the responsible party's lawyers. Any competent contract-drafting lawyer can pick out the holes in them. On the few occasions when they get to court, they get even worse, in terms of their content being an impediment to DTSC actually enforcing them. And of course, as DTSC found out with Santa Clarita, LLC, the owner of the Bermite property, they are not worth the paper they are written on when the responsible party files bankruptcy. There is degree of skepticism about Acting Director Movassaghi in the environmental community, so in my mind the only way he can "make his bones" in terms of protecting the public interest is for Rocketdyne remediation activists to give him legitimate, contract drafting and enforcement text criticism about this latest consent order, and see if he will insist that the further corrections to the consent order be made. Hello old friends from Simi. I just wanted to tell you that I’ve read a ton of these DTSC agreements in the last 20 years, and generally they are full of loopholes drafted at the insistence of the responsible party’s lawyers.

Any competent contract-drafting lawyer can pick out the holes in them.

On the few occasions when they get to court, they get even worse, in terms of their content being an impediment to DTSC actually enforcing them.

And of course, as DTSC found out with Santa Clarita, LLC, the owner of the Bermite property, they are not worth the paper they are written on when the responsible party files bankruptcy.

There is degree of skepticism about Acting Director Movassaghi in the environmental community, so in my mind the only way he can “make his bones” in terms of protecting the public interest is for Rocketdyne remediation activists to give him legitimate, contract drafting and enforcement text criticism about this latest consent order, and see if he will insist that the further corrections to the consent order be made.

]]> By: Constance Ng http://www.enviroreporter.com/2009/11/age-of-consent/#comment-385 Constance Ng Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:41:45 +0000 http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=6401#comment-385 This is the kind of action that we want from the DTSC - protecting the public, not a corporation's profits. Secretary Adams and Director Movassaghi should be commended for their public service, and for their unwillingness to truckle to Boeing, DOE and NASA. This is the kind of action that we want from the DTSC – protecting the public, not a corporation’s profits.

Secretary Adams and Director Movassaghi should be commended for their public service, and for their unwillingness to truckle to Boeing, DOE and NASA.

]]> By: Joan Bien http://www.enviroreporter.com/2009/11/age-of-consent/#comment-379 Joan Bien Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:00:05 +0000 http://www.enviroreporter.com/?p=6401#comment-379 Bravo! Let's hope that Boeing can see that the shortest route to the end of their responsibilities lies not in a courtroom but at the top of a hill. Bravo! Let’s hope that Boeing can see that the shortest route to the end of their responsibilities lies not in a courtroom but at the top of a hill.

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