At Monday's Great Lakes restoration announcement in Chicago, the Bush Administration got plenty of mileage...and made it sound like it is serious about preventing the entry of enormous, destructive, non-native Asian carp into the Great Lakes by supporting funding for an electric barrier in the Illinois River.
The EPA also confirmed that the electrical barrier blocking invasive Asian carp from reaching the Great Lakes via the Mississippi River will be made permanent.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/12/AR2005121201402.html?nav=rss_nation
But look behind the rhetoric. Here's what one insider said:
The administration was pathetic: regarding the listing of Asian carp as
"injurious," all they said yesterday was that they were going to study
the issue and make an "informed decision." What kind of crap is that?
Just list the damn things as injurious! Also, they supported building
the barriers but did not support the legislation to make them federal.
So, they're trying to back out of that.