The SS Badger will run again between Manitowoc and Ludington, MI, free to wash its coal-ash overboard and operate with a clean air waiver from the Wisconsin legislature. One of many posts on this issue from my blog is here. Link to the story excerpted below, is here.
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| Tons of Hydrocarbons Pouring Into Key Estuary  What offshore platform is currently putting tons of hydrocarbons into a nationally important estuary every day? If your answer is the badly- damaged Transocean-BP Deepwater Horizon oil rig, you are correct. You are also correct if your answer is the coal-burning, steam-powered SS Badger car-ferry which chugs between Manitowoc , WI and Ludington , MI .
International attention has, quite correctly, been focused on the efforts to stem the flow of tons of oil spewing from the uncapped well in the Gulf of Mexico every day since April 20, the day of the fateful explosion that set the tragedy in motion and of the failure of the "blowout preventer" that might have contained the mess. By contrast, scant attention has been paid.... Read this story at www.GreatLakes-SeawayNews.com by CLICKING HERE! |
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2 comments:
When you compare the lowly Badger to Gary Indiana... really, who cares?
Or MMSD?
This is nothing.
Coal ash is much worse than anything the MMSD pushes out by virtue of concentration and content.
Do yourself a favor and look at the studies by Conrad Volz enumerating the effects of ash on fish and plankton.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/32650191/House-Testimony-re-Coal-Ash-CCW-effects-on-Fish-Conrad-Volz
This stuff scrambles plankton (fish food) so they can't reproduce and scrambles fish genetics so they reproduce mutations or die outright. Or they accumulate the heavy metals and migrate them elsewhere into the lake ecosystems.
The SS Badger route runs over prime spawning beds for Lake Trout and lake chubs among many other things.
Yeah, it is a big deal.
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