Sen. Clinton opposes Seaway expansion

Sen. Clinton opposes Seaway expansion    Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., has asked President Bush to abandon the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Great Lakes Navigation System Review, a study that could lead to an expansion of the St. Lawrence Seaway corridor.
   The expansion, called the Great Lakes Navigation Project, would be “both extremely costly and ecologically harmful … causing shoreline erosion, devastation of critical fish and animal habitats, and damaging water flows out of the area,” Clinton said in a letter to the White House.
   The proposed expansion of the seaway “would also exacerbate the problem of invasive species by making the Great Lakes accessible to more and larger foreign vessels. The most important pathway for invasive species to enter the Great Lakes is via the ballast tanks of foreign vessels using the St. Lawrence Seaway to access Great Lakes ports,” Clinton said in her letter.