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	Name:	Carnac -
	Subject:	Agree to disagree
	Date:	3/24/2006 2:00:37 PM

I don't know of any one person who is knowledgeable enough to have a good feel for previous precedent but I think that lawyers for the TVA know the answer.

I feel that, by sheer accident, the Alabama legislature will do something that gives us a better future than the questionable present suggests. It began, if we believe the claim, due to the concerns of potential developers of Lake Harris. Dial and Laird believed that the developers proposals were also in the long term best interests of that lake and current and future residents there. They did what any good legislator would do and cobbled a bill. They had to consult with the Alabama Power Company because if they were going to be against the bill it would be DOA. APCo seized the moment realizing that they could benefit by protecting themselves from potential aggressive litigants.

I happen to strongly believe that expanding the number of reservoirs that the bill covers is in the long term best interest of all of those lakes. I've used Lake Lanier as one example of a good lake gone bad due to over-use but Lake Logan Martin, on the Coosa River chain just northwest of us, is a virtual cesspool. The claim up there is that the big boats have created the problem.

After the original bill was introduced every legislator had to consider the pluses and minuses of the proposal and began to realize more of the short term and long term impacts on the larger picture. The original bill is better than the revised bill but it probably still isn't the best bill. That is the kind of sausage making that happens when elected officials seek to come to a compromise. To paraphrase Alice in Wonderland the revised bills will get worser and worser.

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Agree to disagree - Carnac - 3/24/2006 12:05:13 PM

Agree to disagree - Council Roc Doc - 3/24/2006 12:51:34 PM

Agree to disagree - Carnac - 3/24/2006 2:00:37 PM

You must leave this place. - longtimer - 3/24/2006 2:55:17 PM

You must leave this place. - Lakeman - 3/24/2006 5:45:12 PM

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