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Supreme Court to reconsider lock closure

The  U.S. Supreme Court is scheduled to re-consider Michigan's renewed motion for preliminary injunction to close navigational locks in the Chicago River system this Friday, the The Saginaw News is reporting. The news came from Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox at an Asian Carp townhall meeting yesterday at Saginaw Valley State University, where Cox and U.S. Congressman Dave Camp updated over 100 attendees on Michigan's two high court lawsuits and CARP ACT legislation sponsored by Camp and U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow. Both measures seek to close the locks and implement long-term protective measures against a carp invasion like flood control and increased monitoring.

While most legal analysts still view Michigan's petition for a preliminary injunction to be a long shot compared to the state's petition to re-open the 1929 Wisconsin v. Illinois case, this is welcome news.

Meanwhile, Dan Kegan from the Millwaukee Journal Sentinel reported today that the $4.6 million effort to fish Asian Carp out of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal by netting and electro-shocking may result in a 1% success rate, according to the Notre Dame DNA experts who developed the scientific process that discovered Asian Carp eDNA past the electric barriers and in Lake Michigan. Something to be aware of if and when the feds report no Asian Carp have been located in the Canal.

Let's just hope the Supreme Court takes these considerations into effect, along with the economic and ecological devastiation that promises to ensue if immediate separation between the Mississippi River system and the Great Lakes does not occur. I suppose we'll find out Friday...

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