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Originally posted by xoxoxoBruce
I read they wanted to dredge the Delaware to 55 feet but were going to settle for less. The reason they want to dredge is for container ships and has nothing to do with SUV's..or aluminum tubes.
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500 tons or 500 thousand tons. By rail or road. It does not matter. What comes out will go in by the same method.
55 feet or less. Container ship today. Natural gas ship tomorrow. That is the point. Super tankers for imported energy (for more SUVs) means that channel must be dredged deeper.
Let's see. N Alaska is chock full of natural gas. So much that they keep putting it back in the ground. A 300 mile pipe to Canada would deliver this gas directly to pipelines in mainland America. But Sen Stevens, the current champion of porkbarrel politics - Republican style - has put forth a law that bans any pipeline to Canada and then specifically bans the 300 mile one. He demands gas be delivered across the state of Alaska AND that natural gas ships necessary.
The low performance engines in SUVs makes super tankers necessary.
Where is all that gasoline and natural gas to come from? The world's third and first largest producer of both must also import that stuff. Which is why the Delaware River must be deepened and why that 'rumored to be' toxic stuff must go somewhere.
Doing nothing is the one option that does not exist.
Griff asks the important question. Why is a site specific permit not good enough - unless of course they have already bought George Jr with campaign contributions. Unless, of course, the permits are a defacto conclusion. Remember the nuclear reactor that had eaten away all 6 feet of carbon steel? They too did what is necessary to not shut down that reactor. They too bribed the current administration making hearings on the shutdown of Davis Besse irrelevant.
If it means more oil can be imported, guaranteed what the administration's position will be. According to them, we still don't consume enough oil - meaning deeper channels are a defacto reality. Meaning all those dredge tailings must go somewhere.