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SpaceX gets FAA launch approval, provided they fund interest groups
June 14, 2022 at 9:54 am
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/13/faa-spac...rward.html
Quote:SpaceX will be required to take more than 75 actions to mitigate environmental impacts before the company can receive a launch license for the site, the FAA said in a press release.
Quote:The company will also contribute to local education and preservation efforts — including preparing a historical context report of the events of the Mexican War and the Civil War that took place in the area as well as replacing missing ornaments on a local historical marker. The company will also make annual contributions of $5,000 each to organizations that protect ocelots and endangered birds of prey, as well as a state recreational fishing program.
The FAA delayed this environmental approval by many months, because they said they wanted to deal with all the public feedback they got.
Well, it seems that every interest group in the region demanded a share of the pie.
Should the FAA be dealing with every local interest group? This seems like government overreach - arbitrary rulings on things that should be taken care of by local governments. Basically, a federal bureaucrat making legal decisions arbitrarily based on personal feeling.
Any comments?
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RE: SpaceX gets FAA launch approval, provided they fund interest groups
June 14, 2022 at 6:49 pm
Anything that makes Elon Musk’s vanity projects more difficult is fine by me.
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RE: SpaceX gets FAA launch approval, provided they fund interest groups
June 14, 2022 at 7:36 pm
If SpaceX agrees to part with the money, they have it to spend. By the way, where's my 40 acres?
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RE: SpaceX gets FAA launch approval, provided they fund interest groups
June 14, 2022 at 7:37 pm
1. Considering space X should never have been given permission in the first place to build a freaking rocket launch site so close to a nature preserve
2. Considering Space X has lied and breached its agreement several
3. The FAA gave musk the right to build there in the first place they have every right to monitor Space X considering their past duplicity and eagerness to expand beyond what was originally agreed on.
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RE: SpaceX gets FAA launch approval, provided they fund interest groups
June 14, 2022 at 7:43 pm
Some videos on the matter
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RE: SpaceX gets FAA launch approval, provided they fund interest groups
June 14, 2022 at 7:44 pm
A virtual townhall
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RE: SpaceX gets FAA launch approval, provided they fund interest groups
June 14, 2022 at 9:25 pm
And people complained about the Catholic Church "selling" indulgences in the Late Middle Ages??
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RE: SpaceX gets FAA launch approval, provided they fund interest groups
June 14, 2022 at 11:39 pm
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While I my loathing for Elon Musk is high and still increasing by the minute, and I am suspicious of Starship concept, believing it to be suspiciously close to being too good to be true and possible a boondoggle, I think the FAA decision bears all the hallmark of bad government that confuses responsibilities and dilute expertise to meet a thousand politically scrambled mandates du jour in the all consuming pursuit of greasing the squeakiest wheels rather than to further thoughtful priorities.
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RE: SpaceX gets FAA launch approval, provided they fund interest groups
June 15, 2022 at 5:44 am
(June 14, 2022 at 9:54 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: https://www.cnbc.com/2022/06/13/faa-spac...rward.html
Quote:SpaceX will be required to take more than 75 actions to mitigate environmental impacts before the company can receive a launch license for the site, the FAA said in a press release.
Quote:The company will also contribute to local education and preservation efforts — including preparing a historical context report of the events of the Mexican War and the Civil War that took place in the area as well as replacing missing ornaments on a local historical marker. The company will also make annual contributions of $5,000 each to organizations that protect ocelots and endangered birds of prey, as well as a state recreational fishing program.
The FAA delayed this environmental approval by many months, because they said they wanted to deal with all the public feedback they got.
Well, it seems that every interest group in the region demanded a share of the pie.
Should the FAA be dealing with every local interest group? This seems like government overreach - arbitrary rulings on things that should be taken care of by local governments. Basically, a federal bureaucrat making legal decisions arbitrarily based on personal feeling.
Any comments?
SpaceX is 100% state funded so it'll be the ordinary taxpayer that's paying to ensue thatMusk's latest scam complies with basic health and safety ond environmental regulations.
But that's nothing new, without a constant feeding of corporate welfare, Musk would be a marginally productive cubicle jockey.
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RE: SpaceX gets FAA launch approval, provided they fund interest groups
June 15, 2022 at 2:03 pm
(June 14, 2022 at 9:54 am)HappySkeptic Wrote: The FAA delayed this environmental approval by many months, because they said they wanted to deal with all the public feedback they got.
Well, it seems that every interest group in the region demanded a share of the pie.
Should the FAA be dealing with every local interest group? This seems like government overreach - arbitrary rulings on things that should be taken care of by local governments. Basically, a federal bureaucrat making legal decisions arbitrarily based on personal feeling.
Any comments?
Any company should have to answer for its environmental footprint, but I'm not seeing any connection at all between launching spacecraft and teaching the history of political relations between America and Mexico, so yeah, that looks like backpacking.
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