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.

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.

We need to stop fining and start taking away privileges. Sorry, you can't buy/build any fossil fuels any more.

Tow the generators and impound them!

Fine them one million a day until the generators are done. That should motivate them a bit more.

So just the cost of doing business in the end then.

Exponentially increasing per day is still up right?

DataOne was given 45 days to apply for the permits or else cease operations, but they can continue operating the gas engines while seeking permits.

Or the scale of the fine can be expressed as a percentage of the assets and revenues, to make the fines genuinely dreadful.

Never mind right sizing the fines. I keep operating from the assumption that we are dealing with largely reasonable people who have a bad take and are correctable.

Make guillotines great again.

No new taxea, no fines, no jails, straight to the public square guillotine with this level of malfeasance.

In many US states if you get caught poaching game, the equipment you used is often subject to confiscation - that includes the boat, 4x4 truck, etc. If you are walking down the street with a suitcase full of cash - police can simply confiscate it with no evidence of an actual crime. If you are not going to jail anybody at least get yourself 62 generators for free. Am I overthinking this?

Why not $1 trillion?

Where does that money go? Do they pay? Why so little?

So many questions that could be answered by a bribe