What NH Governor John Lynch has done with educational “consortiums” and an NGO such as the National Governor’s Association to impose agendas on local schools, he is now doing with town governments with a new commission he created in 2011.
By virtue of a Governor’s Executive Order in 2011, Governor Lynch created a “State Water Sustainability Commission” which on this past May 8, 2012 held a very private “public” meeting at which NGOs, foundations, and university lobbying groups were in attendance — but media, not even NHPR, were allowed to record.
See “Statewide Conversation on Water Sustainability”:
http://www.nh.gov/water-sustainability/calendar/index.htm
The Governor apparently saw fit to get things done by virtue of an EO on “Earth Day”, with assistance from foundations like the Carsey Institute, lobbying groups such as “NH Listens”, funded by the Carsey Institute (an NGO out of UNH).
This Governor is the same guy mind you, who complained about “out-of-staters” coming in and demonstrating how massive voter fraud could be perpetrated and often is, in NH elections.
Please look at these pages to see what “NH Listens” is and does:
https://carsey.unh.edu/nhlistens and
https://carsey.unh.edu/supporters
In the past, “regionalization” has been used to promote policies without benefit of elections.
One of our more alert members picked up on the newly created commission and was able to attend their event. She observed that they broke the attendees up into small groups and the Delphi Technique (small group consensus) ensued. She reported that one of the prevailing concepts was that WE DON’T OWN OUR OWN WELL WATER. She said the actual conclusions of her group were not presented to the whole group, but that her small group leader substituted her own conclusion, pre-determined, instead.
You may remember that few years ago, a member of the Southern NH “Regional” Planning Commission from Bedford, and a State Rep, attempted to file legislation that would allow that Commission to have jurisdiction over Bedford residents’ private wells. The bill was soundly defeated at the committee level. See HB 572 from 2005 filed by Rep Michael Scanlon below and TITLE III TOWNS, CITIES, VILLAGE DISTRICTS, AND UNINCORPORATED PLACES RSA 38:2-a which he attempted to amend.
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2005/HB0572.html
http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/iii/38/38-2-a.htm
Now we have a “Water Sustainability Commission” that is STATEWIDE.
Here is the original Executive Order created in 2011 – Number 2011-2
Another “Gathering for Water Professionals” is being planned for June 19, 2012 from 2:00 to 5:00 PM
Registration at https://www.events.unh.edu/RegistrationForm.pm?event_id=10440 is required.
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