This article ought to send chills down the spine of every Michiganian who knows a little environmental history. Especially this quote:
Elkins recalled how the area was logged a century ago -- a local writer called it "green gold."
"The trees were shipped out of here. ... I don't see water as any different," he said. "We see them as just another customer coming on line. You use the water as you see fit."
Does the gentleman who said this remember what was left after "the trees were shipped out of here"? A ruined wasteland. But the comparison is apt in one way -- our white pine was considered as inexhaustible then as Great Lakes water is today.
The commercialization for private profit of the water we, the people own, must be stopped and it must be stopped now.
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Posted by Dave at March 6, 2005 05:31 PM