Pollution
The Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA) issued a report recently, finding that the Great Lakes are facing a major threat from industrial pollution. The CELA finds that an increasing amount of industrial pollutants have been discharged into the Great Lakes. The Canadian and U.S. governments are urged in the report to take effective measures to curb the pollution.
The dangerous pollutants discharged into the Great Lakes increased 21 percent in 2002 from that in 1998. It adds that 99,467 tons of pollutants were added in the water and air in the zone of the lakes by Canada and the United States in 2002.
The largest sources of water pollution around the lakes in 2002 were U.S. Steel Gary Works along Lake Michigan and a refinery of Canada's Imperial Oil by Lake Huron. The main pollutants from the two plants were nitric acid, nitrides, as well as glycol containing lead and metals such as nickel, chromium and manganese. Learn More.
February 15, 2006 6:39 AM | Category: Chemicals