Notice that Obama picks an old pal from Chicago to control the money for this "clean up".
Posted on 02/21/2010 5:30:20 AM PST by Thebaddog
Edited on 02/21/2010 5:34:22 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
The Environmental Protection Agency will spend $2.2 billion over five years on the Great Lakes to clean up polluted water and beaches, restore wetlands and fight invasive species such as Asian carp in a revitalization effort to be detailed Sunday.
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Seems to be they’re promising billions of dollars to do some things that have already been done and a couple of things that SHOULD have been done but were prevented by “animal rights activists”. Obama can claim he created or saved X number of jobs.
Ant aren’t zebra mussles still a problem, because every scheme they came up with to eradicate the buggers was claimed to be damaging to some part of the environment?
Fishing in Lake Erie has been great for the last twenty years or more. Aside from the threat of Asian carp which haven't got there yet, the biggest problems these days are algal blooms creating dead zones in summer, and layers of toxic waste in the lakebed. Even the Cuyahoga River has a healthy diverse fish popluation.
My girlfriend in college in 1975 did a paper on the lake. She found the programs back then that were improving the lake. Laws have not become less to clean things up. Our country is better but it is now about control and not about wildlife.
Great lakes screw job.
Just a Don helping another Don.
The list, ping
The funny thing is that the obama administration has been working to stop efforts to prevent Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan. That’s the only thing that really needs to be done. The problem is that it would require major changes for Chicago.
I was talking with a biologist who specializes in the Great Lakes and his assessment of the lakes was that they were immeasurably better than they were 30 years ago, except for the introduction of alien species. The water is cleaner, there is about 1 percent of the pollution entering the water and there is a strong consensus among those bordering the lakes to keep them clean.
His real concern is that people “believe” that the lakes are in a downward spiral that no one can stop. He is very concerned about the impact of environmental fatigue caused by the incessant panics and propaganda. He has found that his students believe that the lakes are worse now than they were 30 years ago even though the evidence shows a gigantic improvement.
The Zebra Mussels are largely gone, destroyed by another invasive species, the Quagga Mussel.
I’ll tell ya one thing. If the EPA tries to enforce a buffer zone along the stream that runs through my property,.....you are gonna read about it in the papers and see it on TV.
If you can find sources re the health of the great lakes, we should start circulating them. Your comments are very interesting.
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