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by loorinm 3042 days ago
I don't buy it at all. The article takes a very strangely sympathetic tone toward the whole situation.

The noise has been narrowed down to one island that has "a few blasting operations". So stop the operations and see if the hum goes away. Then have each one restart one at a time. Or bo binary search, whatever. It doesn't matter.

The obvious takeaway here is that the city/state/province does not care. They are too deep in the pockets of those industries to make any waves at all.

Government has so little power to do anything. They are just the paid legitimizers of the corporations.

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It's complicated by the fact that United States Steel is in the US, whereas Windsor is in Canada. It's not just a local government issue, it's an international issue.
I am sure there are tons of examples of cross-border nuisances. Probably since the beginning of borders. This is not a new issue.
> The obvious takeaway here is that the city/state/province does not care.

Another problem:

Zug Island is in Michigan (US).

Windsor is in Ontario (Canada).