Posted on 04/05/2014 6:27:14 PM PDT by Libloather
GARY, Ind. (AP) — U.S. Steel has temporarily halted steelmaking at its massive northwestern Indiana mill because the ice-covered Great Lakes have cut off its access to vital iron ore and other raw materials.
The company said in a letter to its customers that it has idled the Gary Works complex's blast furnaces and steelmaking operations "due to unforeseen and unprecedented ice conditions on the Great Lakes" after the Midwest's frigid winter, The Times of Munster reported (http://bit.ly/QMW0D4 ).
"These severe ice conditions have not occurred on the Great Lakes for more than three decades," the letter states.
Treacherous ice covering much of Lake Superior has prevented freighter ships from hauling iron ore — an essential ingredient in steelmaking — from Minnesota's Iron Range to northwestern Indiana steel mills.
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Is this just happening today? Is the ice still that heavy on the Great Lakes, today, April 5th? It’s not melting? Stunning.
Hard to believe, as spring is here, and that ice is going to start melting in a big way very soon.
Hire Warren Buffett’s Trainz.
Hmm. That's the United Steelworkers Union for you. Punch in, punch out, spend 8 hours playing cards and having lunch.
I wonder how they'll heat the place? Maybe they'll keep a few of the blast furnaces going just to keep the workers comfortable.
When all that ice melts, won’t it flood Chicago? /s
These are all lies, told by climate change deniers who should be thrown in prison.
Maybe Gordon Lightfoot can write a song about it.
One can stockpile raw materials (navigation on the Great Lakes is always halted for some period of time in the Winter).
Poor planning can result in exhaustion of the inventory before resupply starts.
Lake Michigan was iced up REAL good this winter.
Soo locks webcams. Its a USACE website so you’ll be warned.
https://webcam.crrel.usace.army.mil/soo/
Is it going to...uh...cause the sea levels to rise?
Superior is still 88% ice covered today.
Don't know if the Soo Locks are open.
http://iceweb1.cis.ec.gc.ca/Prod20/page2.xhtml?CanID=11080&lang=en
Site shows current great lakes ice conditions
The locks officially opened on the 25th of March but not a single ship passed through because of the ice on lake superior.
Good luck on making it from Silver Bay, Two Harbors and the Twin Ports of Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin, to the Chicago area any tiem soon.
I haven’t heard any projections of flooding in the US, but a lot of areas got heavy snow and prolonged ice. I would think some places downstream will be underwater before long.
What the heck? You mean that the steelworkers union had negotiated that their workers get paid for not working? Yes, I understand they are clocking in and all that, but, they are going to have nothing to do?????
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