Creating an industry that nobody wants and can only exist by destroying an industry that is actually working is pure Granholm economics. It ranks right up there with the stupidity of farming Detroit in contaminated soils.
We haven’t even mentioned the fact that the great lakes fish are supposedly contaminated with mercury and will NEVER be a viable commodity again. This is especially true with carp which are a filter feeding species that tend to concentrate contaminants.
You’re begging the Obama administration to come up with a reason to spend billions more on study and erradication programs that will never work.
All your rambling about maintaining locks and canals is laughable considering the fact that the chicago “shipping” canal was really a means of keeping Chicago’s own sewage from washing up on the beaches. Its never been a major shipping canal anyway. In that sense you’re right, wasting millions to maintain it is foolish, close it, fill it and stop paying for it.
I don’t think you read what I wrote the way I intended it to?be read