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by Paul Bean
On Monday, July 15th, at 10am, the House Committee on Environment and Energy is meeting at the State House to discuss a bill, Act No. 59 (H.126) – An act relating to community resilience and biodiversity protection.
This bill contains language that would mandate environmental protection and conservation 30% of Vermont’s land by 2030, and 50% of Vermont’s land by 2050 – Some refer to this bill as the “30×30, 50×50” bill.
Vermont Daily Chronicle reporter Paul Bean will be in attendance.
If you would like to attend virtually, here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClq5iwB1tbE-9u5TIJHtFEA/featured
Expect a report on the meeting by early next week.
A draft inventory report on progress of the bill can be seen here:
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Categories: Energy, Environment, Legislation, State Government
How elitist is it to take taxes from all (food from babies) and buy a park?
Elitist might be one take, Marxist and Totalitarian is the better description. The property rights of all become moot to the state’s diktats. Property becomes owned in name only, controlled by the state. We are close to this situation now, should this repugnant and unconstitutional legislation pass, Vermont slides headfirst into marxism.
So they claim that we are short on housing for people, and then change act 250 so that more density can occur in communities. Now they want 30%, and then 50% conserved land by year 2050. How do they propose to do that? Will they be coming to take away our land in order to conserve it? Maybe by 2050 enough people will have moved out of Vermont due to high taxes that they might achieve that 50% goal.
I posed this question to Representative Conlon, and he informed me that the Vermont Housing Trust will contact/work with home owners to place their land in conservation. Do not do this. Do not enter into any agreement with these people if possible. I am sure they will dangle carrots like reduced taxes. I can see the state using taxes and tax relief as a means to get what they want.
Vermont Land Trust, not House Trust.
Paul, Thanks for the heads up about the meeting.
When the Vermont legislature officially adjourns, it really is just a ceremonial thing…the democrats and progressives are always “in session” and coming up with new ways to separate productive citizens from their hard-earned assets.
Vermont has 9,250 square miles. The Green Mountain National Forest alone is 1282 square miles. Without doing any more homework than those two numbers, I would place bets that there is at least another 3,000 to 4,000 square miles in our state park system, Green Mountain Club (Vt’s Long Trail stewards), and other publicly owned local parks and conservation areas (like land around lakes and reservoirs). Not to mention privately owned and managed preserves.
So the question is, what are they *Really* up to? This push by the elite politicians to own the land for themselves makes no sense from a practical point of view. There are some good reasons for the State to own some land, like for civil works projects. It’s called Communism when the State owns the majority of property.
One theory I have heard is that they are pushing this in order to use the land to back the enormous debt they have racked up. By the way, has anyone seen any tangible results from the Billions of dollars Vermont got from the “Build Back Better” fiat money that we are on the hook to repay? Those victims of the recent flooding would most likely attest that the money was not spent on flood prevention (reservoirs and the like). Where did the money go?
s. adam manley //// i will trust in myself to conserve my land//// notice to other people//// no trespassing/// no more taxes//// no more regulations/// now add up the state and town owned land including highways and what do you have left//// yes, where did the money go/////////
Thank you. I expect to attend virtually Monday.
How can they be working on a bill when all legislation has to start over in January, after the elections? Presumptuous-or telling-that they are pushing forward with this when, technically, there is no bill.
All of you would likely be interested in this testimony I gave on this topic on April 10th this year. Starting around minute 36 or 37: https://www.youtube.com/live/AnH6k4NZ_z8?si=p4pfMBzhYo9sSzq5 what do you think?
Jennifer Byrne – District Manager of the White River Natural Resources Conservation District provided the most important testimony on the danger of this 30×30 law to the House Ag Committee on 4/10/24.
Linked below
https://www.youtube.com/live/AnH6k4NZ_z8?si=z9OjWwcJW1MGCifi
35/36 minute mark
The Committee was blown away-they had no idea what they had done and the problem they created. There is no fix. This law must be repealed. Rep Cole inquired about an amendment to help it- that is not enough. Rep, Templeman asked how they could fix it- it is not possible. Like the Clean Heat Standard, the GWSA and the RES, these are inherently flawed laws that bring harm and danger to Vermont. I asked Chair Durfee of the House Agriculture Committee if I could provide further testimony on the carbon markets, nature conservancy etc and I was told they would not be taking any further testimony on this.
So they found out how dangerous this law was to Vermonters and the fact that it set up more carbon markets at the expense of Vermont yet nothing was done. No action was taken. Are the legislators who were responsible for this law naive, ignorant or complicit?
The conservation districts which have been involved in conservation work in a supportive and meaningful way that helps farmers, watersheds and works with communities were not even included in the testimony leading up to this law. The HEE and House Ag completely neglected to gain guidance and Input from the actual existing Vermont Conservation Districts which have been operating via federal law since 1936.
Jennifer did a great job shedding light on the problem with this 30×30 law, and the further commodification of nature and the use of for-profit carbon markets on conserved land. Bottom line- responsible and worthy conservation is happening in Vermont snd has been for decades through the work of the Conservation Districts. 30 X 30 is overreach, and in supermajority fashion- serves industry not people or environments in the true sense.
Vermont Land Trust and The Nature Conservancy who is well known for their fraudulent carbon market schemes have a for profit hedge funds/business venture called Atlas Timberland Partnership which utilizes conserved land to profit on carbon markets.
The Nature Conservancy was included in the private meetings with the Vermont Housing and Conservation Board and Agency of Natural Resources both of whom were directed by the law to compile an inventory of conserved lands and a path for achieving the goals. The public and other interested organizations including farmers who would be impacted by this law and were not involved in the creation of the law, were excluded and denied access to these meetings.
Nature 4 Justice was also involved and if I remember correctly was contracted for 500,000 to provide a public engagement process- not sure if that happened and what it looked like. As far as I can tell no meeting minutes for these private meetings were posted and interested parties were told they could not participate in the inventory and planning process. So much for public process.
It seems that the nature conservancy may have already had a plan for this law – quite possibly – as many believe because these lands will be rolled into for-profit carbon markets and the selling of offsets to corporations, a business the Nature Conservancy has been in for years. If this is indeed the case, I am not sure who will profit from this ‘business’ besides the nature conservancy? And was this the intent of the bill and are legislators aware of what they created?
Sadly- this is more irresponsible and impulsive legislation that does not serve Vermont. On the other hand, the Vermont Conservation Districts are focussed on local watersheds, supporting farmers and not playing corporate environmental games. I am grateful for Jennifer’s testimony and work.
I will also be attending this meeting on Monday. Enough is enough.
https://www.youtube.com/live/AnH6k4NZ_z8?si=z9OjWwcJW1MGCifi
Thank you Alison. I have been calling this out as a new form of sustainable finance for some time, which is consistent with the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda and Environmental, Social and Governmence financial scoring metric or ESG created by Klaus Shwab of the WEF back in the 1990s. I have stated multiple times that people should not enter into any agreement under this scheme to conserve land, as the Vermont Land Trust could take ownership of the land, which was confirmed in this meeting. This should scare everyone as it attacks property ownership and rights, which are ransfered to a government agency, the very definition of communism. I would again like to remind all of the article I posted previously that detailed the tax returns obtained by aa government watch dog group that showed that specific states, including Vermont, are receiving funds via the U.S Climate Alliance to implement the United Nations Sustainable Development Agenda. These funds are being paid to find politicians and their staff as well as universities.
Why not call this meeting what it really is: a coven of witches and warlocks conspiring and colluding to steal and control land that does not belong to them, a conspiracy to commit fraud weilding fake authority over our land, lawfare warfare by installed belligerent occupiers. In short, criminal acts perpetrated by thieves and traitors.