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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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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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TOPICS: Agriculture; Business/Economy; Outdoors
KEYWORDS: billions; epa; greatlakes
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Electronic waste?
And Cameron Davis is the Great Lakes Czar, FYI.
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:30:20 AM PST
by
Thebaddog
To: Thebaddog
Follow the money. Let’s see who gets the contracts...
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:32:47 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(I'm not a socialist. Heck, yes, I hope Barry fails. Sheesh.)
To: mewzilla
Follow the money. Let’s see who gets the contracts...I bet the list is very similar to those who were involved in Chicago's olympic bid!
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:36:20 AM PST
by
Erik Latranyi
(Too many conservatives urge retreat when the war of politics doesn't go their way.)
To: Thebaddog
these lakes have cleaned up consideraby since the 60s when if you could find a fish in the lakes, you were crazy to eat it.
of course now we need to squash our moon program for this and other bogus socialist spending.
(I do not consider NASA for the most part socialist spending....it is a message to those nations that would do us harm that they would be messing with a potent foe...it is national security and national pride.)
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:38:00 AM PST
by
Vaquero
(BHO....'The Pretenda from Kenya')
To: Thebaddog
it sets a goal to collect or prevent the release of 45 million pounds of electronic wasteBackdoor carbon regulation. Cap and trade regulation without legislation, to "protect" the environment.
These people must be stopped.
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:38:24 AM PST
by
FatherofFive
(For the first time in my adult life, I am proud that Massachusettes is part of the United States!)
To: Thebaddog
If anyone was bought off, I’d say it was the animal rights whack jobs who don’t seem to be raising a fuss over the eradication of an invasive Asian carp.
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:38:55 AM PST
by
BigSkyFreeper
("Ked Tennedy would have been plowed... I mean, proud today..." - Senator Max Baucus (Drunk-MT))
To: Thebaddog
Lake Erie came back to life in the 1970’s.
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:38:57 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(Free the Navy Seals)
To: mewzilla
The dollar figure seems way too low for the scale of the lakes. Maybe its just the opening bid.
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:41:43 AM PST
by
Thebaddog
(Shakey Jake said, " The hippies will never survive!")
To: bmwcyle
OK, first of all it's only an effort ... kind'a like gettin' an A for tryin'
Secondly, 2.2B is nowhere near sufficient just to clean up beaches, let alone wetlands, a war on invasive species, clean up polluted water ....
I mean, this is the health care bill ... it ain't got nuthin' t'do with the environment ... it's payoff, plain and simple
You know it and I know it.
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:44:45 AM PST
by
knarf
(I say things that are true ... I have no proof ... but they're true)
To: Thebaddog
I have been painted a picture of the great lakes, that I don’t believe exists, but it has been painted never the less.
There are large bureaucratic dollar signs all over the picture of disease, death, destruction, and disaster, that has been painted of the great lakes.
The states of MN, WI, IL, IN, NY, PA, MI, and OH, stand to benefit from the federal largess. How much will O’Canada benefit by being the other fifty percent of the lake shore. Suppose she is going to pony up? How much of the sky is falling, is she buying into.
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:45:17 AM PST
by
wita
To: Thebaddog
And check out the last sentence in the article. Is the person who said it making the suggestion that even after spending 2 billion dollars, the situation might not even improve?!
Whoa. I smell a 'Rat. A honkin' big one.
Now I really wanna know who's getting that money.
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:45:37 AM PST
by
mewzilla
(I'm not a socialist. Heck, yes, I hope Barry fails. Sheesh.)
To: knarf
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:46:54 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(Free the Navy Seals)
To: Thebaddog
But how can this be? We passed the clean water act years ago!!!! It must be that water is too easy to buy. We need a 10 day waiting period and strict laws preventing yuts from owning water. Inner city water violence is out of control and needs to be stopped. No water from the South should enter Chicago without the proper fess and backround checks.
To: mad_as_he$$
fess=fees. More coffee Miss.
To: Thebaddog
2.2 Billion and the government can’t even stop the Asian Carp. What a waist. Just another way to help the economy go broke. Want to bet Jenny gets a piece of the pie?
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posted on
02/21/2010 5:59:36 AM PST
by
70th Division
(I love my country but fear my government!)
To: Thebaddog
Of course, Milwaukee's MMSD which cost billions and dumps millions of gallons of raw sewage into Lake Michigan - every time it rains heavy or a big snow run off - won't see a dime...
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posted on
02/21/2010 6:08:32 AM PST
by
PIF
To: bmwcyle
Yes, Lake Erie was cleaned up very dramatically. However the method used by introducing zebra mussles created whole other problem in itself.
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posted on
02/21/2010 6:14:20 AM PST
by
diverteach
(D.C. has become Jonestown)
To: mewzilla; cripplecreek
The Great lakes Restoration will be enabled by the Clean Water Restoration Act 2009 (S. 787)
http://www.opencongress.org/bill/111-s787/show
This bill will place ALL waters in the US under control of the EPA. That means every trickle, stream (including intermittent ones), pond, lake, drainage ditch, bog, cow hoof print that collects water.......AND significant amounts of the lands that abut any of the above (buffer zones).
The EPA is totally out of control!
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posted on
02/21/2010 6:19:44 AM PST
by
Roccus
(POLITICIAN.....................a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
To: mad_as_he$$
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posted on
02/21/2010 6:20:28 AM PST
by
Roccus
(POLITICIAN.....................a four letter word spelled with ten letters.)
To: diverteach
Did they put them there or did they hitch a ride?
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posted on
02/21/2010 6:43:21 AM PST
by
bmwcyle
(Free the Navy Seals)
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