House Approves Nation's Costliest Waterway Navigation Project

16 July 2005 - 7:00am

Scientists and environmentalists oppose new Mississippi River locks.

"The House voted on Thursday to approve the nation's costliest waterway navigation project, a $3.6 billion undertaking to ease shipping on the upper Mississippi and Illinois rivers. Environmental and taxpayer groups have opposed the project.

Barge operators and farmers want to speed grain to Gulf of Mexico ports...Government scientists, however, had said that grain exports probably would not increase enough to economically justify the lock overhaul plan."

Source: The San Diego Union-Tribune, July 14, 2005
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Maybe we should blame Thomas Jefferson. He was the godfather of the urban sprawl racket in America.