WASHINGTON -- Gov. Jennifer Granholm may soon have to decide which is a higher priority in her administration: protecting Michigan's environment, or reviving the state's struggling economy.
http://www.mlive.com/news/statewide/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1119521400216590.xml
The anti-environmental spin machine is working overtime. In its worldview, we cannot have both strong mercury controls and a healthy economy. We cannot have strong water conservation laws and a healthy economy. We must pick one or the other.
That's perverse economics. If you don't have strong mercury controls, your economy is burdened by increased health care costs and lowered IQ. Not to mention the billions Michigan sends outside its borders each year to pay for the coal that generates it.
If you don't have water conservation legislation, you ultimately lose control of your water to out-of-state, even out-of-nation private parties that will take the water and take the jobs with them.
Michigan's business lobby is smarter than this kind of first-grade reasoning.
Posted by Dave at June 28, 2005 01:25 AM