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I'll bet anything they budgeted for a fine and it was still cheaper than doing it the proper way. Whoever signed the paper to approve the install should be on the hook personally.
NJ should have Public Works seize all of the offending generators with NJSP as backup. No warning, no compensation. Corporate lawlessness like this needs to stop being profitable.
Compounding fines. If they're not gone in a week double it and fine them again. Continue until they're removed.
When the law comes for little people, they call this civil forfeiture.
When the law comes for the bigwigs... we don't have a name for that. Because it doesn't go down that way.
This. They are installed without permit, they will be uninstalled without warning.
This here!
Cost of clean and legally installed energy = X
Cost of cheap gas turbines, don't bother with permissions, plus a later fine = less than X
That's a no-brainer.
Fuck this attitude. I could say Fuck Capitalism, but it's possible to still make a good profit with X, so this is actually something worse than capitalism. Oh yes, a century of pathological, boundless greed encapsulated in tHe sToCk MaRkEt.
I'm pretty sure that is just describing Capitalism. Trade, Commerce, Profits, and Money all existed before Capitalism. The boundless greed and "line must go up" mentality is what Capitalism brings to the table.
We need to stop fining and start taking away privileges. Sorry, you can't buy/build any fossil fuels any more.
I want the board / ceo to do prison time for shit like this, as well as the contractors that execute the illegal work