[Thebaddog]

Electronic waste?

And Cameron Davis is the Great Lakes Czar, FYI.

[mewzilla]

Follow the money. Let’s see who gets the contracts...

[Vaquero]

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.)

[FatherofFive]

it sets a goal to collect or prevent the release of 45 million pounds of electronic waste

Backdoor carbon regulation. Cap and trade regulation without legislation, to "protect" the environment.

These people must be stopped.

[BigSkyFreeper]

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.

[bmwcyle]

Lake Erie came back to life in the 1970’s.

[wita]

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.

[mad_as_he$$]

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.

[70th Division]

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?

[PIF]

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...

[cake_crumb]

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.

[cripplecreek]

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.

[cripplecreek]

Great lakes screw job.

[Nachum]

The list, ping

[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 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.