Early, very early, yesterday morning Paul Martin got the media together, groggy not quite all there, bleary eyed and announced that the Liberals will clean up the pollution in the Great Lakes. Martin announces $1-billion water cleanup
But what he didn't say was that a lot of that pollution was a direct result of his shipping company CSL and their dumping of iron ore pellets into the Great Lakes. So now he is going to have us pay for his corporate screw up.
Our grimy great lakes: The dirty secrets of the Canadian shipping industry’s cleanup practices
BY Alex Roslin
The dirtiest job on the ship was understandably the one Jim Macdonald dreaded most. During his years as chief engineer for Canada Steamship Lines (CSL), aboard carriers including the CSL Tadoussac, Macdonald oversaw the offloading of 25,000 tons of iron ore at the Port of Hamilton on each journey. Now 70 and retired, Macdonald recalls his voyages aboard the 730-foot-long Tadoussac—how, in the late 1980s, the Tadoussac would head back to the far end of Lake Superior to pick up a fresh ore load at Thunder Bay. After a short catnap while the vessel eased through the locks of the Welland Canal, it would be time to clean out the ship. This meant dumping into the water tens of thousands of marble-sized ore pellets that didn’t make it off at port
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