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Environment & Energy

usaf-vet

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3. He is worth 25 million, find 1.0 million a bargain at ten times the fine. That is how millionaires calculate.

Reply to Hermit-The-Prog (Reply #1)

Wed May 29, 2024, 06:22 AM

May 2024

How many generations of researchers and residents will lose what was valuable on that section of river?

This will continue to happen worldwide until the fines and incarceration make it hurt. And it's not worthwhile.

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That was an incredibly stupid thing to do. Hermit-The-Prog May 2024 #1

He is worth 25 million, find 1.0 million a bargain at ten times the fine. That is how millionaires calculate. usaf-vet May 2024 #3

Yes they see it just as the cost of doing business. Irish_Dem May 2024 #4

-- make it not worthwhile. England does that with motor vehicle fines. I recall years ago, 3Hotdogs May 2024 #5

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