In the usual agenda creep, the environmental movement has gone from "not poisoning the environment" to "having any effect whatsoever on the environment." It's not enough to avoid doing harm--any change at all is now considered a bad thing.

To be able to confiscate most of a person's property, simply to keep the land in whatever state it happened to be at that point in time, is lunacy. To have this kind of thing proposed by a mainstream politician is frightening.

You were talking about setting up pumps and reservoirs once. You might be surprised at how many laws you're probably breaking nowadays, although you are almost certainly doing nothing harmful.