Posted on 02/17/2009 4:18:00 AM PST by MaryFromMichigan
Federal regulators are about to approve preliminary permits, which would give the go ahead.
(snip)"The EPA says these injection wells will last…for 10,000 years. This injection well didn’t last 10 months,"
(snip)
Should the deal go through, tankers from Canada full of hazardous waste would be transported on I-94.
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
We feel your pain. (Canada is huge too)
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/02/08/0208pcb.html
This just can’t be true. Our Senator Debbie Stabenow has made this her main mission as a Senator. Please tell me that she has not just been giving us “lip service”.
Pure genius. Canada doesn’t want to pollute so they ship trash here (not including the governor). It doesn’t make a lot of sense to use Michigan and it’s high water table as a dump.
From Right Michigan:
"Papas' name is not unfamiliar to residents in and around Detroit but he's not as well known out-state. His (barely) above-the-table resume filler includes the Motor City's Greektown Casino, which he helped "build." Granted, the man has spent almost as much time in the courtroom as he has on the gaming floor, battling requests for personal protection orders after allegedly assaulting the children of business partners, state investigations into his use of HUD money to build luxury hotels and allegations (plural) of sexual harassment. Maybe more importantly, according to Department of State and FEC records he's a six-figure-a-cycle Democratic money man.
His latest project, lobbied for extensively for the better part of a year by Senator Stabenow's husband, would bring more hazardous waste into the state from Canada. "
http://www.rightmichigan.com/story/2009/2/16/134455/493
Funny thing... Canada has taken hazardous waste from all over the US for many years. Many conservatives have complained that we should be able to keep the revenue here in US, and then when it starts to go through, we hear complaints again.
Transporting Canadian waste to Detroit would make both areas cleaner.
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