A trade group says closing a canal lock near Chicago in a bid to stop the Asian carp from reaching Lake Michigan could deliver a blow to tug and barge companies.
Then perhaps this trade group should pay for carp control in the river from which it benefits.
WOOOO HOOOOO !!!!
ACTION !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/04/us/AP-US-Great-Lakes-Asian-Carp.html?_r=1
A decision could come within days on whether to temporarily close a vital Chicago area shipping waterway in an increasingly desperate bid to stop the invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes, an Obama administration adviser said Friday.
Cameron Davis, the Great Lakes adviser to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, told The Associated Press that discussions were under way about shutting the O'Brien Lock while crews poison part of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal to kill the giant carp.
''It's going to happen soon,'' he said about a decision. ''We're talking, best guess, within the next two or three days.''
Posted by: Get 'Er Done | December 04, 2009 at 04:06 PM