I'll give you an example. They had a very serious problem in Europe after the Second World War, but they took the steps to fix it. Obviously, the problem can't be fixed without doing some damage to the environment.
When I asked the department to act more quickly, I was told that it would have an environmental impact. And yet, for 50 years, no one cared about the environmental impact. And now that it's time to fix the problem, they say it will have an environmental impact. Really, now.
I've seen explosives discharged. Mud and water levels rose 300 feet in the air for days, but that wasn't an environmental impact. It didn't matter. The vibrations that shook our homes weren't an environmental impact. But now that it's time to clean things up, we're being told that the impact will be huge.