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EPA plans to spend $2.2 billion on Great Lakes
Chicago Breaking News ^
| 2.20.10
| Jim Tankersley
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.
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To: Thebaddog
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.
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posted on
02/21/2010 7:11:49 AM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Can we impeach him NOW??)
To: BigSkyFreeper
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?
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posted on
02/21/2010 7:16:35 AM PST
by
cake_crumb
(Can we impeach him NOW??)
To: Thebaddog
fight invasive species such as Asian carp
One more example of Obama working both sides of an issue. Just last month he stepped in to prevent a Michigan lawsuit over the asian carp.
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posted on
02/21/2010 7:21:46 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin!)
To: bmwcyle
The zebra mussels came in on foreign freighters who then pumped them out into the lake with the ballast water. They really did clear up the water because they are filter feeders, but it was feared they would upset the ecological balance by displacing domestic species. Their effect has been mixed, with benefits to various fish species who feed on the mussels, and plant life flourishing in the brighter light of the clearer water.
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.
To: Roccus
significant amounts of the lands that abut any of the above
In other words, the entire state of Michigan and significant portions of every other great lake bordering state.
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posted on
02/21/2010 7:25:20 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin!)
To: hinckley buzzard
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.
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posted on
02/21/2010 7:27:32 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(Free the Navy Seals)
To: Roccus
Notice that Obama picks an old pal from Chicago to control the money for this "clean up".
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posted on
02/21/2010 7:30:03 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin!)
To: Diana in Wisconsin
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posted on
02/21/2010 7:40:02 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin!)
To: cripplecreek
Just a Don helping another Don.
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posted on
02/21/2010 8:27:10 AM PST
by
Vaduz
To: Thebaddog; Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; ...
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posted on
02/21/2010 8:55:59 AM PST
by
Nachum
(The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
To: Thebaddog
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.
To: cake_crumb
The Zebra Mussels are largely gone, destroyed by another invasive species, the Quagga Mussel.
To: Roccus
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posted on
02/21/2010 9:17:26 AM PST
by
dfwgator
To: dfwgator
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.
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posted on
02/21/2010 9:20:26 AM PST
by
Roccus
(POLITICIAN.....................a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
To: MediaMole
The funny thing is that the obama administration has been working to stop efforts to prevent Asian carp from entering Lake Michigan.
That's Obama alright. He'll prevent efforts to do something then take billions of dollars in the name of doing exactly what he stopped.
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posted on
02/21/2010 10:10:12 AM PST
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin!)
To: MediaMole
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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posted on
02/21/2010 12:06:33 PM PST
by
Thebaddog
(Shakey Jake said, " The hippies will never survive!")
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