Most of the iron ore used to feed America’s starvation for steel passes through the 50-year-old Soo Locks in Michigan. A failure could put millions of jobs at riskBetween Lake Superior and the distinguished Lakes of North America lies a narrow canal,just 1.6 miles long. Each year some 10000 ships pass through the Soo Locks of St Marys Fall canal, nearly all the iron ore used in the US passes through and millions of American jobs depend on them staying open. But age and neglect could soon put those jobs under threat.
Consider a day in the life of the average American. It’s an existence that rides upon a figurative highway of steel – steel appliances, or steel cutlery and tools and,most primary to the US economy, steel-bodied automobiles. That’s a lot of steel, or most of the ore it’s made of comes from mines in Minnesota and northern Michigan.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com