The Loudoun Environmental Council’s web site (www.lecva.org) does a dandy job of giving a first impression that they are an environmentally concerned, environmentally literate group of Loudoun citizens and ‘experts’ who have the environmental best interests of Loudoun County citizens at heart. Think again!
A careful reading of the web site reveals their true agenda: blocking passage of the Chesapeake Bay Protection Ordinance (CBPO) so that development in Loudoun County and the siting of projects adjacent to perennial streams can continue without any constraints placed on the negative impacts such development and siting may have to streams or water quality in those streams – water that many county citizens will end up drinking after filtration and treatment at a water distribution facility.
They never tell you who they are, where they are based, or what their background is. They purport to want to preserve the quality of local water ways so that you and the kids can go canoeing yet they want to jeopardize the natural filters that protect these waterways from becoming even more polluted than they already are. They ‘forget’ to mention that over the past five years, stream sampling has shown on average that 62% of the stream sites tested had levels of E. coli in excess of state approved levels for swimming and recreation. They would have you believe that this ordinance is all about the Bay and Blue Crabs and not about the quality of water here in Loudoun which it most certainly is, and here’s the kicker, the LEC directors who filed with the state are Roy Jacobsen and Carol Kearney who just happen to bear the names of two local real estate developers in Loudoun County. Coincidence? I think not. Check it out for yourself by going to the State Corporation Commission Office of the Clerk’s web site at the following URL and doing a search on ‘Loudoun Environmental Council’: http://www.scc.virginia.gov/clk/index.aspx.
Folks, I know the point you seem to be trying to make, but if they are Loudoun individual property owners, taxpayers, voters and business people too, what do you hope to gain by demonizing them?
It reminds me a bit of the following:
Barbara:
When the architects of a ‘green organization’ are realtors, I can not help but be wary of any ‘environmental’ gift they might leave outside the gates of Leesburg. While the others inside the organization may be good and honorable men and women who pay their taxes and recycle weekly, I am suspect of their choice of ‘friends.’ And speaking of friends, I will direct your attention to following August 3rd image of the ‘Loudoun’s Chesapeake Bay Act’ Facebook page to which I was directed from the LEC web site. If the LEC can not make their points without donning a disguise of one sort or another, it would appear that they lack the credibility to get out their message in a forthright manner.
Demons? No. But on the other hand, they are not being professional and forthright and handing folks their cards like the realtors do in the film clip you provided.
Hayden Mathews