Ohio GOP approves plan to export Great Lakes water - 5 million gallons a day!

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yes, but that's per day, multiply that by potentially hundreds of companies, and include the 2 million gallons per day from groundwater, I don't think anyone would argue this is an insignificant amount of water.

The part I find truly heinous is that the Ohio legislator who sponsored the bill stood to personally profit from it. Lynn R. Wachtmann, (R) is also the president of the Maumee Valley Bottling Company and a board member of the International Bottled Water Association. How on earth can someone in that position be allowed to also write such self-serving legislation? This man is a piece of filth using his government position to enrich himself and his company.

Originally posted by Blackmarketeer
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The part I find truly heinous is that the Ohio legislator who sponsored the bill stood to personally profit from it. Lynn R. Wachtmann, (R) is also the president of the Maumee Valley Bottling Company and a board member of the International Bottled Water Association. How on earth can someone in that position be allowed to also write such self-serving legislation? This man is a piece of filth using his government position to enrich himself and his company.

Thanks for that piece of information. It's seems that there is no "separation of corporation and state". That guy shouldn't have been elected. But for the common people we have "no voice, no choice" unless we are an owner of a corporation that contributes for political influence. It is apparent that corruption is openly embraced by our government at every level.

Anything more developing on this bill? They're saying in the local news that it was vetoed but only after two other state governors threatened to sue Ohio if they pass it - makes me wonder if they'll just find another way to sneak it back into the law books with some tweaks to mollify those other states.

Ohio is definitely the weak link in the Great Lakes Water Compact that was signed by all the border states to the Great Lakes as well as Canada. I'm sick of taking trips to Lake Erie only to have to turn back because of yet another water advisory due to pollution. It's almost ironic that the person who wrote that piece of legislation is also an owner/share holder in a bottling operation, because who on Earth would want to drink water from this cess pool? However my really big concern is that they'll find some way to exempt water being used in fracking since it's technically not being exported from the Great Lakes watershed - even if it does become so tainted with chemicals that it degrades water quality even further.

Just another sad day in North East Ohio, pollution capital of the Great Lakes region.