Norton would be an environmental disaster on the scale of the Exxon Valdez spill, though she hasn't mentioned God yet. She does believe in ''property rights,'' a corporate buzzword that implies the government will allow someone to do what they want with their property. May sound good, bunky. But it isn't. Gail Andrews, a Ponte Vedra Beach attorney who argues many environmental cases, said, ''Real estate doesn't end at a survey line.
Pollution goes onto a neighbor's property.
If your neighbor filled in a wetlands, that would affect green space, habitat and preservation. That's why governments were created, to sort this stuff out. Norton also apparently be-lieves corporations may use public lands, if they pay proper fees. Of course, they also own high-powered attorneys to make sure those fees stay low. In Florida, logging companies pay to harvest trees in our two national forests.