I think they need to close the canal as well.
But they won’t. It would be MUCH better for untold numbers of people to do so but not for obama’s peeps.
Its not even really a matter of sealing the canal. Just creating a barrier between the canal and the Des Plaines river would do it. The only real through traffic is pleasure boats and most shipping is offloaded well before the river.
The whole thing shows how twisted the Obama administration is. He puts rabid environmentalists in charge then stands in the way of preventing a true environmental (and economic) threat. Funny thing is that these are the same “environmentalists” who stand in the way of safe directional drilling under the lakes for natural gas. Bush didn’t do much about it but he didn’t actively stand in the way of court fights between the states.
There’s a lot more here than meets the eye and few people outside the issue have paid enough attention to really understand it. The fact is that there won’t be any feeding the poor on fish that can only be commercially sold on a very limited basis. There won’t be a vast commercial fishery for the same reason. Besides, only a moron would destroy a probably $50 billion sport fishing industry based on the false hope that trash fish can replace it.
And the idiots who trash talk the scientists need to recognize that its not scientists who have raised the alarm, its the people who rely on the lakes for their livelyhood in the form of charter fishing boats and other sport fishing related industries.