Comments on: Weekly News Roundup – November 18, 2011 http://blog.nwf.org/2011/11/weekly-news-roundup-november-18-2011/ The National Wildlife Federation's blog Wed, 22 May 2013 03:48:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Don Mitchel http://blog.nwf.org/2011/11/weekly-news-roundup-november-18-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-11380 Don Mitchel Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:35:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=36324#comment-11380 ” Great to see environmentalist fighting this bad ballast water bill on
the internet. The question should be ask of national media networks,—
Why if ballast water present  major economic problems to the Great Lakes
States which will affect our counties economy and jobs along with
causing international concern from Canada,— along with the potential
human health risk of bacteria and virus and irreversible  invasive
damage to the largest fresh water Eco system in the world—  and as
ballast water induced cholera ravages underdeveloped countries around
the world— WHY WILL THEY NOT BROADCAST THIS NEWS TO THE  AMERICAN
PEOPLE?

If all American ports were to have equally strong national ballast water
law, the only jobs that would be lost, would be those of foreign
manufacturing as the cost incurred to import foreign goods  on these
ships would rise , allowing American manufacturing to be more
competitive. The following sentence is from a report to Congress in 2009
about the cost of fixing the national security issue of ballast water 
“Most of this expense will be borne by

foreign shipping companies, as the U.S. flag fleet is a small percentage of the global fleet,16 and

likely passed along to consumers of products imported on these ships.”

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