Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) Reminds Shitstain Of Permanent Federal Ban On Great Lakes Drilling

[hatrack]

WASHINGTON, D.C. — An executive order signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday reversed an Obama-era policy that ordered for the protection of oceans and the Great Lakes.

U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-Michigan) sent a letter to the President on Wednesday to remind him that there is a permanent federal ban on gas and oil drilling in the Great Lakes.

“The economic and environmental significance of the Great Lakes cannot be overstated,” Stabenow wrote. “Our Great Lakes are the largest surface freshwater system on Earth, supply drinking water to over 40 million people, and sustain a $6 trillion economy and over 50 million jobs. Given the existing ban on drilling and the importance of the Great Lakes, I call on you to reverse course and oppose any efforts to open our waters to oil and gas drilling as a result of your recent Executive Order.”

The ban was passed in 2001 and became permanent in 2005.

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http://wwmt.com/news/state/stabenow-sends-president-reminder-of-great-lakes-drilling-ban-after-executive-order-signed

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

1. This is so Walker and Snyder

can start pumping water out of the great lakes for bottled water, and for the SW. imo.
Add...Apparently, as per a news article here a few days ago, Walker is tapping into Superior for the SW and Michigan and Wisconsin have given corporations the green light to pump for corporate use. Foxconn. Holland Mi area water well by the coast. (essentially pumping it inland through a fast lakeside aquifer. Into the coffers of Nestle bottled water.)

[htuttle]

2. They want the Great Lakes to look as beautiful as the Aral Sea

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

3. OR the

Salton Sea in CA.
50 million jobs...but wtf are jobs to these people eh? They golf and sweat and that's a rough day.

[NeoGreen]

6. I can imagine a response such as...

..."what is a job?", in the same vein as the "what is a weekend" asked by a certain BBC TV character.

[kimbutgar]

4. Will Michigan cult members be ok with oil and gas drilling in Lake Michigan?

[dawg day]

5. Lake Michigan is the only Great Lake we don't share with Canada

So he'll go after that first. Look out, Chicago.

[Crutchez_CuiBono]

7. Chicago let the deadly/dancing carp in.

They HAVE'NT been looking out as per national news. What's up w the Windy City??