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Kasich vetoes the Great Lakes water bill
Other Great Lakes states, Congressional Democrats and former GOP governors had called for the veto, but lawmakers may have the votes to override
by WKSU's M.L. SCHULTZE
and ANNA STAVER


Web Editor
M.L. Schultze
 

Gov. John Kasich is vetoing a bill that would have allowed an unlimited number of companies to each draw 5 million gallons a day out of Lake Erie without a permit. 

Ohio lawmakers passed the bill two weeks ago, and it drew protests from environmentalists, other Great Lakes governors and two previous Republican governors from Ohio, George Voinovich and Bob Taft. 

Supporters, including Sen. Tim Grendell of Chesterland, argued that the the bill would spur job growth.

  Opponents, including Congresswoman Betty Sutton of Akron, argued it would cost jobs – and violate a compact among the Great Lakes states meant to preserve the supply and quality of lake water.

 

 

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“This Great Lakes compact was carefully negotiated,” Sutton said. “It was five years of negotiation with the whole purpose of prohibiting water from leaving the Great Lakes basin with limited exceptions to make sure that the lakes would be sustainable.” 

A three-fifths majority in each chamber is needed to override Kasich’ s veto. When it first passed, the bill met that threshold in the Senate and had just enough for an override in the House.

Listener Comments:

I am so glad that Kasich vetoed the bill. Not only would it have been an environmental disaster, but an economic one too. Grendell (idiot) is wrong, this would allowed us to have been bled dry (pun intended) for the short term and then have nothing long term. Water is as essential as oil, and without water there would be no hope at all for this region.

Grendell needs to go to Russia and see the environmental and economic consequences of pumping lakes dry. The largest body of fresh water outside of the Great Lakes is Lake Bikhail. But it is no longer there as the Soviets pumped it dry. No water, no fish, no food nothing but salt flats.

Thank Kasich for not listening to Grendell or Wachtmann.


Posted by: Isaac Lewin (Lyndhurst, Ohio) on July 17, 2011 4:07AM
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