Can't We Just Flush the Great Lakes Clean?

looking at that fish makes me wish I wasn't a vegetarian. Mmmmm.

I walked along a short stretch of the Han River a month or two back and, in the span of about 15 minutes, saw about 5 dead fish, a dead eel, a dead turtle, a dead mouse, and wbhat might have been a mole or shrew or something. My point is that *all* fresh water bodies are treated like toilets and always have been. The real issue is proper treatment of sewage and nailing industrial polluters and commercial dumpers.

What is wrong with you Toronto-heads and the environment. Lake Ontario is a great example.

You wont swim in it, won't eat the fish and are constantly moaning about cancer.

But you happily drink it and eat food grown in it.

And the most bally-hooed environmental action you can take is piously taking a transit system that runs mainly on tritium-leaking nukes and mercury spewing coal-plants that are the major source of a deadly neurotoxin in Great Lakes water.

In November, you'll piously re-elect a provincial government whose entire 2007 Great Lakes budget item was not more than the cost of a few TTC streetcars. I also note that you've got an environment minister and husband that appear to be addicted to gas guzzlers at a time when even Arnie knows that it's bad PR. You are all so pious and polite about it. Toronto is such a great city. Cough, hack, gurgle.

hey Northerner
You dumb turd. Toronto isn't the only city on the Great Lakes.

I wonder if we go on and carelessly polluted our fresh water lakes, and doing this long enough, will the fishes in lakes eventually evolve and becoming uneatable fishes (poisonous fish). Probably not. Evolving must take the course of million of years I suppose.

I am hoping fishes evolve faster, maybe in the course of years instead of million years. Then the human like us will see the consequence much faster, and maybe then we will treasure our natural resources much and much more.

Environmentalists and scientists know what they are talking about with research into the effects of toxic substances.

If stupid, greedy people weren't so extreme in their stupidity or greed then they would have listened to environmentalists rather than heaping scorn and derision on them.

Here is the news. It's too late anyway.

Have you tasted Toronto's water in the recent years? It tastes like a mix between chlorine, sulfur and eggs. It's disgusting, it's rivalling Buffalo or Boston's water.

CANDU nuclear reactor spills have all been deuterium. Deuterium is a stable isotope of hydrogen that naturally occurs in water. It is non-toxic, non-radioactive, and is biologically indistinguishable from a normal hydrogen isotope of water.

Tritium has nothing to do with any pollution in any of the great lakes. Nuclear power plants, however, do reduce the number of coal burning power plants required to power Central and North-East America (referring to the continent). No other mature technology yet compares to the amount of electricity produced in anything near the scale and price required. Nuclear, therefore, as an atmospherically neutral source of energy, as an environmentally beneficial technology comparative other toxic generation possibilities (including PV solar cells, which produce a large amount of toxic waste that must be disposed of), is again environmentally friendly. Only radiologically does nuclear compare unfavorably to some technologies (coal it beats by far), and this testing has nothing to do with radiolgical contamination.

Trying to introduce the nuclear bogey man into this discussion is an off topic troll, especially on the Candian side in reference to the CANDU reactors and resorting to ignorance or deception to try to make your point (tritium instead of deuterium in the great lakes). Especially when nuclear is the only viable alternative source of containable clean energy in the present day and for the foreseeable future.

As an aside, see that granite that comprises a large % of the bedrock stone of the great lakes? Yep, radioactive. Gives off far more radiation to someone standing on top of natural granite rock than someone working in a nuclear reactor near the containment vessle (in actuality, a nuclear plant typically has far lower total environmental amounts of radiation than even environmental causes). So please, keep the ignorance or deception out of your posts, especially because it harms everything around you (especially by perpetuating a deceptive nuclear bogey man).

Water is a huge problem for everyone, in Australia we are currently experiencing one of the largest dry spells on record, only having slightly eased lately with some spots of rain.

A novelty site has been put up to help people realise that a small change in habit can have a massive effect on the environment and it's more about changing peoples attitudes than actual daily procedures.

http://www.savewaterpissinthegarden.com

Yay for Lake Michigan! Cleanest sewage dump of them all!

joshuasbones, that's because in Chicago, we send all our #1 and #2 down the Illinois to the Mississippi.

Take that, Gulf of Mexico!

I couldn't agree more..

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