DRILLING AGAINST THE LAW?
In 1972, the United States and Canada signed the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement that’s designed to address the continuing contamination of the Great Lakes Basin ecosystem. The agreement prohibits off-shore oil drilling in all the Great Lakes, but there’s another kind of oil drilling going on under the lakes. It’s called slant drilling, and some Michigan residents say it’s a way to subvert the law. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium’s Wendy Nelson explains.
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