Dave Dempsey in The Detroit News
Dave Dempsey, a senior policy adviser for the Michigan Environmental Council and author of several University of Michigan Press titles including Great Lakes for Sale: From Whitecaps to Bottlecaps, Ruin and Recovery: Michigan's Rise as a Conservation Leader, and William G. Milliken: Michigan's Passionate Moderate, was in The Detroit News yesterday with Despite Federal Protection, Great Lakes Remain Troubled Waters.
From www.detnews.com:
If there's one sure bipartisan thing in the environmental politics of Michigan, it's this: The message to anyone outside the state is "hands off" the waters of the Great Lakes. No Michigan politician would dare advocate exporting Great Lakes water to thirsty Texans, for example. And no politician would issue a news release touting a proposal to sell a share of Lake Michigan to T. Boone Pickens.
And yet, unless action occurs soon in both Washington, D. C., and Lansing, we'll end up with exactly those policies in place -- with potentially monumental consequences for the Lakes and for Michigan.
How did we get into this mess?
