Last week, the California Department of Fish & Game issued a permit for work on the 241 toll road completion — specifically on environmental mitigation measures.
It comes on the heels of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service announcing completing the 241would not threaten endangered species, and of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration saying it would not threaten the steelhead trout (which no one has really seen in that vicinity, anyway).
Dan Silver of the Endangered Habitat League dismissed the decision as "procedural and routine."
Yeah.
And if Fish & Game had denied the permit, does anyone think Mr. Silver would dismiss it as "procedural and routine"?
Not hardly.
He and the rest of the anti-241 enviros would be trumpeting it from the roof tops as "more prof" that finishing the 241 will turn that section of South OC into a wasteland.
Instead, the F & G, F & W and NOAA announcements have been greeted by crickets from Environmental Left, and received near-cricket treatment from the mainstream media.
Funny how that works.