[x-complexity]

> ... “removal of all in-water infrastructure” belonging to the Ocean Observatories Initiative at sites along the coasts of Oregon, Washington, Alaska, and North Carolina, and in the waters between Greenland and Iceland.

...Why is Europe reliant on the US for monitoring oceans between Greenland & Iceland, i.e within European territory & therefore European monitoring? Shouldn't they have their own infra to work from?

[armada651]

That stretch of ocean is closer to Canada than it is to mainland Europe.

[x-complexity]

All the more reason as to why it should be Canada monitoring that portion of the ocean.

[yoyohello13]

What should we be spending tax money on? The only thing this admin seems interested in paying for is killing Iranians and paying off J6th protesters.

[x-complexity]

The tax money shouldn't have been collected in the first place. It should've stayed with the people.

[armada651]

Then stop using the roads and everything else that tax money paid for. If you keep using things that's been paid for using taxes the government will only feel more entitled to collect it.

[Starman_Jones]

They aren’t. The US built monitoring infrastructure there because it’s our project, and that’s where the science needs to happen.

It’s the same reason that many more countries than just Argentina built the Pierre Auger observatory, or that the Vatican built the Pope Scope in Arizona.