Well you know there are a lot of other things.
Lets start with stopping shipping in the great lakes. The amount of pollution that happens with these low speed, heavy oil ships going up and down the lakes is something to be very concern with. The oil leakage, the ballast dumping and so on all contributes more pollution in the lakes every year than would drilling.
Then we have water run off from the streets into the lake. Even though we have separate drains in a lot of the cities and counties, we also have very old systems that doesn't have that system in place and sometimes where there is still human waste overflow that can be dumped into the lakes. NOT just that but the pollution that gets into the lake from rain water runoff is not really measured - got a car/van/truck that leaks oil, it ends up in the great lakes.
Then we have general pollution from man, those boaters who pollute by running their exhaust into the water, I think most do. That adds pollution into the water. Jet skis too.
BUT we can't stop boaters or shipping or people from driving, can we?
Isn't all about money?
I would like to see hunting stop for those who don't own more than 5 acres but I know that won't happen, it is all about the money.
I would like to see the beaches clear of idiots who leave crap in the sand but that won't happen because it is all about the money.
SO why not drill?
The state of Michigan is suffering. We lack real jobs, we are in a middle of a true depression in this God forsaken state but don't want to have jobs by allowing a simple thing like drilling for oil in the lakes.
I don't give a crap about what could happen, we have enough regulations to cover almost everything except God causing a category 5 hurricane in lake Huron, and now more government BS that will prevent mouse turds from being spilled into any body of water by an oil company so the likeliness is slim to nil that we will ever have a problem we can't fix.
The state needs the revenue, the people need the jobs and the lakes will not be harmed.
