Great Lakes Receives $1 Billion: Bi-Partisan Legislation Works in National Reemergence!

Manistique, MI.

The Great Lakes would be an important and vital part of a national reemergence strategy. According to the International Joint Commission the Great Lakes provides about $6 Trillion to the national economy and supplies drinking water to 40 million people in the U.S. and Canada (Livernois, 2021). Because of its large impact there is likely only a few revealing studies because they are often conducted by governments. 

"The science of ecosystem service valuation, which brings together ecologists and economists, is an attempt to understand and quantify, usually in monetary units, the extent to which ecosystem services contribute to the welfare of society." (IJC Great Lakes Science Priority Committee, 2021)

We must keep it clean and ensure that the waterways are working well and functioning at full capacity. It is possible to develop a sustainable system where ROI benefits also include the general cost of pollution and ensures the entire system functions to move products freely and easily (This is where new metrics in the Digital Era would make a difference. i.e. pollution and species sensors). 

Our nation can't have a full reemergence/renaissance without the Great Lakes. Manufacturing, shipping, fresh fish, tourism and lifestyle are part of that same overall process. As a person who lives on the Great Lakes and plays/works on water one can experience the secondary benefits of a healthier lifestyle. In addition, as a bi-partisan bill I support when our politicians work together to keep our nation strong (That doesn't mean working together on everything is necessary but when it comes to national development we all have to find solutions because we all will lose if we don't! Light-Right R)

This is good 
Bi-Partisan 
Policy with benefits for
Delta County :)

President Biden announced $1Billion on a bi-partisan Great Lakes restoration program. You can read more at ,'Remarks by President Biden on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Great Lakes Restoration'

The EPA also provides an announcement with lots of information of interest. You can read EPA $1 Billion Announcement. AOCs are listed for those who are interested in the areas where clean up is going to occur. It looks like you can also click on each area to gain more information. List of Great Lakes AOCs.

Specifically you can read about the Manistique River AOC which isn't too far from Escanaba. About an hour to the East.  A nice shipwreck near there (Still waiting on an marine archeologist to get back to me. Hmmmmm) 

There was also some discussion on a $20 billion investment in a semiconductor campus outside of Columbus, Ohio. I would like to know more about that because its a vital issue for the Digital Era. I think Michigan should get/start another semiconductor cluster in the state somewhere. President Biden is correct that we invented these conductors and then gave essential technologies to our competitors (I'm going to add that because we were sometimes shortsighted, being cheap, and using short-term stock logic versus long term value creation strategies.). Duh! 🙊

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