Friend and colleague Todd Jarvis told me yesterday that today's post over at Rainbow Water Coalition was going to be a blockbuster. He was right, of course: it details the sorry tale of what happens when a state agency, the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, establishes an advsory commission, the Graywater Advisory Commission, ostensbily to seek advice, then proceeds to subvert the advisory process.
Here is his first paragraph:
I indicated in previous postings a few reasons why I left the Oregon experience in graywater. At the first meeting, the Oregon DEQ staff attempted to indicate that the advisory group process was going to follow a consensus-based approach to deciding upon what topics were important to the rules and regulations governing graywater reuse. But it was obvious from the onset that the DEQ had a pretty good idea of how they wanted the program to go given their debate over some of the words in HB 2080, including, but not limited to, issues of beneficial "use" versus "purpose" and what "disposal" really meant, almost reminiscent of the famous debate over what "is" is.
Enlightening article that should serve as a cautionary tale the next time we are asked to be on an 'advisory committee.'
“Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense.” -- Carl Sagan
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Posted by: recycling | Saturday, 12 June 2010 at 08:33 PM