DNRC support for Water Compact not appreciated
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Editor,
Predictably, the Department of Natural Resources and Conservation’s John Tubbs is in full mutual defense mode of the government’s non-negotiable, “negotiated” settlement (for the Montana-Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribe’s Water Compact). We get it. The deep pockets of the state, tribal and federal governments will be used to attempt to shut down any efforts by the peasants to shift the debate to a positive solution from the mess that the state government created.
We’d like to thank Tubbs for further exposing the tactics used by government to ensure that the public does not have the information necessary to make an informed decision or to understand what is really going on with the CSKT Water Compact. Instead, they use tactics that are intended to stifle public debate by casting aspersions upon the process by which the People’s Compact came about.
Note that there is one thing in common with all of these attacks on the People’s Compact: there never is any discussion of the substantive issues addressed by it or any defense of the dirty details of the CSKT Compact monstrosity that they continue to try to force through the system and upon the people.
The truth is that the CSKT Compact endorsed by state, federal and tribal government violates the due process and equal protection guarantees in the constitution. If that isn’t bad enough, it appears that Mr. Tubbs would like to take one step further by violating our first amendment free speech protections as well.
Why would Tubbs want to stifle public debate on such an important issue? Is it possible that he and the DNRC are afraid that if the issues are openly debated too many problems with their “negotiated” settlement would, at last, be exposed to the light of day?
Sheila Vallejo
St. Ignatius
