... but I get up again WARNING: this post contains humorous elements

I love the way the City Council uses the DEP.

When they're talking about the landfill, the DEP is bad and evil and untrustworthy.

Get away from our city, you DEP. You can't take over closing the landfill, you scoundrels. The only thing worse than New Ventures is YOU, DEP!

But when they're talking about the wastewater treatment facility, discharge permits and revolving state loans, the DEP is benign and all-knowing.

*Extra humor alert*

Pretty, nice DEP. Come over here and sit on my lap. Give Newburyport a hug, you silly billy. No, of course we don't want you to change.

It's hilarious when they do this all in the same meeting.

To be fair, it was a very long meeting so they may not have noticed themselves contradicting themselves.