Few people can drive home a point like John Dingell. So it was a potent start for a Great Lakes hearing when the Dearborn congressman thundered, "Future generations are going to curse us."
His point -- that dilly-dallying on the lakes amounts to a crime against the future -- was echoed rightly and repeatedly at Thursday night's Cobo Hall event as speakers supported a draft plan by the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration to restore the lakes. The federally coordinated blueprint covers the gamut from toxic hotspots to wetlands, a price tag of $20 billion.
http://www.freep.com/voices/editorials/elakes20e_20050820.htm
Posted by Dave at August 21, 2005 08:00 AM