We’re protective of our lakes. However the state and feds have a responsibility to ease the flow while encouraging safety.
People are still squealing about the Embridge spill but few mention the fact that the state hadn’t been doing the required inspections for years. Oil producers have to pay for state and federal inspectors in which case the states and feds have a bad habit of collecting the money and doing nothing.
Its kind of like the $20 billion we’ve paid the DOE to dispose of nuclear waste but they haven’t moved an ounce.
Another development mostly overlooked in the Great lakes trade is the effective gutting of the Jones Act by the Canadian National Railroad.
CN bought US Steel’s Great lakes Fleet (eight or nine ore carriers) and now operates them out of Duluth.
Yeah, like momma bear protective of our lakes. LOL Thing is, see today for reference, the weather is VERY unpredictable on the lakes.
(even though I think the commies in D.C. have already sold them to the highest bidder—but that’s a conspiracy theory for another time.)