if you're going to change the compact, everyone has an idea to offer

Wisconsin and Ohio right wingers seem to be bent on derailing the Great Lakes Compact. Jim Rowen breaks it all down in his blog today. As Jim says:

Lazich and Grendell cannot control exactly which portions of this lengthy agreement get modified once the Compact is back on the table.

Right, so here are a few I want "fixed:"

* Get rid of the ludicrous loophole that permits draining of the Great Lakes in containers under 5.7 gallons in size without any say-so from other states.

* Ban the commercial sale of Great Lakes Basin water unless a greater public benefit is somehow served.

* Define 'short-term humanitarian crisis' in the exemptions to the diversion ban.

* Make it impossible for communities like Waukesha, WI to divert Great Lakes water to support their bad planning and suburban sprawl.

Comments

[betsey]

I like the way you think. We could kill a couple of very bad provisions just by banning the use of the term "straddling" from the Compact entirely.