EPA gives $1.4 million to study mercury in Lake Superior region babies
October 4, 2012 at 6:49 am in Duluth News Tribune
State and federal officials today are expected to announce a $1.4 million grant from the federal Environmental Protection Agency to find out why so many babies born near Lake Superior have high mercury levels in their blood. Continue Reading
Electric Coal Generation plants contribute to 43% of all our nations Mercury contamination in air and water. We’re literally surrounded by them up here. The plants here have been cited for polluting and are antiquated and over 60 years old. This information been well known as source for mercury contamination for well over a decade to the public, yet Minnesoata Power just few months ago said they needed more time because they haven’t even done a feasibility study yet! Meanwhile Illinois which had more coal generation plants then Minnesota took that information over a decade ago and have won awards for their efforts by switching to wind power and clean energy since then. Here we need to spend 1.4 million to figure out why there’s so much mercury in water and Minnesota Power feigns ignorance so can squeeze more profits out of antiquated plants that been cited for polluting already before they convert them.
Mercury contamination impacts the neuorological development in infants most notably, which also does kinda explain some of the things in twin ports that we see…~rolls eyes~….like folks not caring about caution when comes to mining or protecting the water here. Some folks just haven’t figured out that water, not oil, coal or copper, is our most precious resource. We can survive without the minerals, we can’t survive without clean water.
“Human kind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.” Chief Seattle, 1854
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