US-Canadian Bridge Project Moving Ahead

The long contested bridge across Lake Superior has moved one step closer to becoming reality despite protests from environmental activists. US companies celebrate this latest development even as protesters gather their forces for a renewed campaign against the building project. When completed, the bridge between the US town of Red Hook and the Canadian city of Innsmouth will become the longest bridge in the world, a huge building project that is scheduled to take six years to complete.

The US Supreme Court decided yesterday that the case filed by Greenpeace against the Owl Creek Bridge project had no cause under US environmental protection laws and subsequently dismissed the case. Pierce Ambrose, the project manager, voiced his relief after the ruling:
"This bridge is needed in order to further solidify the regional economy – if we let the old national borders hinder us we'll never regain the prosperity that we all lost during the 2010 depression."

This is not a view shared by the environmental movement, and the Greenpeace regional spokesman Charles D. Ward said:
"We've all heard the same all arguments from the floundering old businesses – if they can't find a way to stay afloat without ruining the local environment maybe they should go out of business!"

The Michigan state senator Sonia Greene has so far refused to comment on recent developments in this case, but political commentators are certain that this is one issue that will not be settled so easily.