Drain the Great Lakes

[r.j.dawg]

That's just the name of the TV show this Sunday on the History Channel. For those of us that boat on the Great Lakes, and those that wish they did, this may be an interesting view.
http://www.discoverychannel.ca/showpage.aspx?sid=36927

 

[3rdtimesthecharm]

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I saw it.I liked the part about the Edmund Fitzgerald.

 

[dolluper]

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I was p issed when I saw ur heading....up here we charise our fresh water lakes...one of Canada's natural resources that is abunant and the US of a is trying to steal....with the politicans help.....be ware we owned the eastern part of he states in 1812 and gave it back so be nice to us LoL's

 

[86 century]

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We have prety much trashed all of our water so we are just gana take yours.
Thats what you get for takeing such good care of it.

Missed the show but it sounds like a good one.

 

[bassman284]

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Well, apparently that program is too high brow for us here in the states. We get American Chopper and Moonshiners. I guess I can try to watch it online.

 

[jasoutside]

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Well, apparently that program is too high brow for us here in the states. We get American Chopper and Moonshiners. I guess I can try to watch it online.

X2, rats.

 

[Thalasso]

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I was p issed when I saw ur heading....up here we charise our fresh water lakes...one of Canada's natural resources that is abunant and the US of a is trying to steal....with the politicans help.....be ware we owned the eastern part of he states in 1812 and gave it back so be nice to us LoL's

I think you should read the full history of that.

 

[jigngrub]

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.....be ware we owned the eastern part of he states in 1812 and gave it back so be nice to us LoL's

What's this "we" stuff? Are you British?

Canada didn't even become a country until 1867, 55 yrs. after the war of 1812... please study your country's history before spouting garbage.

 

[Bwana Don]

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We have prety much trashed all of our water so we are just gana take yours.
Thats what you get for takeing such good care of it.

Missed the show but it sounds like a good one.

News flash for you guys. I live north of Detroit in Michigan. The St. Clair River is lined with Industrial Chemical plants on the Canadian side of the river. The pollution from the Fifty-First State is enormous in this stretch of the river. USA pollutes more because there are more people here. Canada is an Industrial Nation same as USA.

I cherish the Great Lakes as much as any one. I also work in Manufacturing, which I cherish. We need to work harder to balance the two.

I await my Canadian beat-down.

 

[Alwhite00]

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I'll need top look for a re-run.

LK

 

[LongLine]

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I was p issed when I saw ur heading....up here we charise our fresh water lakes...one of Canada's natural resources that is abunant and the US of a is trying to steal

It's not the US trying to put windmills in Lake Ontario. It's not the US drilling for oil in them. It's not the US dumping all kinds of pollution through the Toronto area. It's not the US allowing housing to grow rampant on the west end of Lake Ontario. It's not the US preventing the return of the natural water level fluctuation.

It is however NY (which is in the US) establishing the most stringent water ballast rules, over Canadian objections. It is the US which is restoring the fisheries.

Tom B.
(LongLine)

 

[rbh]

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Dolluper, I think you just stepped into a hornets nest bud!!

The great lakes has been a dumping ground for both sides for years.
I think about the steel mills on our side (difasco??) as a big no no on our part, and the love canal comes to mind.
When I visited Niagra fall years back all the staining on the rock face I was told was tanneries from a 100-150 years back still leaching through the rock/soil into the niagra river.

 

[WIMUSKY]

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Not to jump on the US bandwagon(although, why not), but, it's been said for years, the cause of the high mercury levels in the N Mn lakes is from factories in Canada. To this day they have consumption warnings.

However, I agree, I don't think either side of the border is very good stewards of the waterways....

 

[rbh]

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YUP, both sides get a "big bag of blame" (say that 5 times fast), you figure there has been some sort of MFG going on for over 300 years around the great lakes or thier tributories (sp)

 

[WIMUSKY]

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In my home town in N Mn, when I was a kid there was a gas station right on the river that ran thru town. If you took 5 steps from one side of the station you would literally fall into the river. The station would always put their empty oil drums and used oil tank on that side which was out of sight from the public. Well, the ground was black. Guess where it drained into?????? That station just closed in the last 10 years.

 

[sasto]

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I spent some time in Lake Michigan in the 60's and early 70's........then returned a few years ago.

What a difference!!!!!!!! When was the last time a river caught fire in Chicago?

 

[Thalasso]

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I spent some time in Lake Michigan in the 60's and early 70's........then returned a few years ago.

What a difference!!!!!!!! When was the last time a river caught fire in Chicago?

Or Ohio.

 

[nwcove]

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all the industry in the great lake region.....both sides of the border, have all but destroyed sport fishing here in atlantic canada, and probably the northeast u.s. 90% of our weather systems come from there and dump acid rain. lakes that were once ( not many years ago) prime fishing , are now DEAD lakes,not even a minnow, and these lakes dont even have one cottage built on the shore.
liming projects have been tried, but how can you keep up with whats being dumped on this region......it ruins paint on new cars! you all see the direct impact of whats happening.....we see the collateral damage.

 

[NetDoc]

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Reading threads like this remind me why I LOVE living in Key Largo!

That being said, I would LOVE to see the bottom of the Great Lakes one day. We have two kinds of wrecks here in Florida: Screamers and Fakes. If people are screaming as it's going down, it's a wreck I want to dive! The artificial reefs are just that: artificial. The wrecks in the Great Lakes are all screamers and there is a sense of humanity struggling to prevail in each and every one of them. God I love history!

 

[Bigprairie1]

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What's this "we" stuff? Are you British?

Canada didn't even become a country until 1867, 55 yrs. after the war of 1812... please study your country's history before spouting garbage.

Jigngrub, Canada did exist as Upper and Lower Canada but had yet to become an 'official' independent nation, but it certainly did exist. It was a colony at that time and those born here did not necessarily qualify as British Citizens...hence the early concept of independence begins/began. People born here knew very little of Britain and its traditions and history for all of the obvious reasons.
Being from Alabama you would not have been an American yet (similar to the new/current concept of true modern 'Canadian' citizens) but a confederate or a member of the Confederacy rather than what would later become known as the UNITED states...emphasis on United after the civil war (hopefully ).

I don't think Dolluper meant anything too much with this comments. Both Canada and the U.S haven't always done the best job of stewardship ship with the natural gifts we have here in this part of the world...but I think we try to head in the right direction despite both our self-interests (like most neighbours?)

As for draining the great lakes....I'd love it for maybe a couple of months in the winter when nothing moves through it trade-wise anyways. It would be great to see whats in it.

Anyone remember reading or hearing about when Niagara Falls froze?...and they had a chance to find all those relics from the war of 1812 (and civil war?) at the base of it?

All Good
BP