Oil and Water

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These are some updates on the threats to Great Lakes water.

8 Aug 2019 Enbridge Says Gap Opened Beneath Line 5
Enbridge says gap opened beneath Line 5 oil pipeline - Great Lakes Now
....erosion....had reached 81 feet.'

19 Aug 2019 Line 3 Protesters Rally at Enbridge's Bemidji Office
'....wild ricing season.'

 

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URL will function if typed in the spacebar. Line 3 in Minnesota has become a political weapon.

9 Sept 2019 Minnesota Pipeline Fight Highlights Democratic Dilemmas
apnews.com/2150e9f93fac47ec99e45465992792fa

 

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It Is The City That Creates Agriculture, Not The Other Way Around

No doubt, this is a pre-election move. We note that this article in today's Wisconsin State Journal does not occur in the online version. Even an online search at the journal's website does not retrieve it.


13 Sept 2019 Wisconsin State Journal, Clean Water Rules Pulled
'Traverse City, Michigan. The Trump administration on Thursday revoked an Obama-era regulation that shielded many U.S. wetlands and streams from pollution but was opposed by developers and farmers who said it hurt economic development and infringed on property rights.

Environmental groups criticized the administration's action, the latest in a series of moves to roll back environmental protections put into place under President Barack Obama.

The 2015 Waters of the United States rule defined the waterways subject to federal regulation. Scrapping it "puts an end to an egregious power grab, eliminates an ongoing patchwork of clean water regulations and restores a longstanding and familiar framework," Environmental Protection Agency chief Andrew Wheeler said at a news conference in Washington, D.C. Wheeler and R.D. James, assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, signed a document overturning the rule and temporarily restoring an earlier regulatory system that emerged after a 2006 ruling from a sharply divided Supreme Court.
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Betsy Southerland, who was director of science and technology in EPA's Office of Water during the Obama administration, said revoking its policy would create further regulatory confusion. "This repeal is a victory for land developers, oil and gas drillers and miners who will exploit the ambiguity to dredge and fill small streams and wetlands that were protected from destruction by the 2015 rule because of their critical impact on national water quality," Southerland said.

Sen. John Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican and chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, applauded the Trump administration move, saying the Obama rule "would have put backyard ponds, puddles and prairie potholes under Washington's control." '

 

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13 Sept 2019 New York Times, Trump Repeals Obama-Era Rule on Clean Water
Pollution Limits Eased. The latest move to roll back protections for the environment.
'....An immediate effect of the clean water repeal is that polluters will no longer need a permit to discharge potentially harmful substances into may streams and wetlands.'
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Patrick Parentreau, a professor of environmental law at the Vermont Law School, said that, for conservative states and leaders who hold the view that the Clean Water Act has been burdensome for farmers and industry, "this is an opportunity to really drive a stake through the heart of federal water protection."....Legal experts also predict a barrage of lawsuits across the country.'

 

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This reports arsenic in tap water:

19 Sept 2019 New Study Finds Cancer-Causing Chemicals in Tap Water
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yahoo.com/lifestyle/new-study-finds-cancercausing-chemicals-in-tap-water-120057413.html

 

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'cancercausing' is correctly transcribed.

 

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This report came one day before the New York Times article. Arrogantly, it does not mention the authors:

15 Sept 2019 Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry
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trendingpress.com/bottled-water-is-sucking-florida-dry/

16 Sept 2019 New York Times, Bottled Water Is Sucking Florida Dry (Michael Sainato and Chelsea Skojek, Gainesville)
'Aquifers are shrinking yet corporations want to appropriate more water....In California, environmental groups are battling Nestle's water bottle operation in the San Bernardino National Forest, an area suffering from drought.''