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Did the CBD author parts of TESRA?
 
 
September 30, 2005
 
 
By Julie Kay Smithson
 
 
PropertyRightsResearch.org
 
 
Did the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) author parts of "The Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act of 2005" (TESRA and H.R. 3824)? One must ask this question in light of the fact that the two "leaks" of this bill published in the public domain of the Internet, were at this litigious, self-proclaimed "environmental" and "conservationalist" non-governmental organization's website.
 
 
One does not allow one's opponent to arbitrarily pick the poison and then 'benevolently' allow you to pick the dose.
 
Does it seem odd that such a powerful piece of legislation became available to the public in such an odd location? It should! Such NGOs have their "eyes on the prize:" If TESRA is ramrodded through Congress, passed and signed into law, they will have a much more powerful tool for shutting down all federal agency actions with which they disagree.
 
Just one definition in TESRA, Section 3, merits reason to trumpet nothing less than Repeal, not "reform:" 
 
‘‘(12) The term ‘jeopardize the continued existence’ means, with respect to an agency action (as that term is defined in section 7(a)(2)), that the action reasonably would be expected to significantly impede, directly or indirectly, the conservation in the long-term of the species in the wild." http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/issues/more/esa/TESRA/HR3824_Committee%20Print_xml.pdf (79 pages) Section 3

 

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