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[quote user="tdmidget"]Futremodal you have basically answered the questin yourself. If channel maintainance requires all these EIS and RR maintainance does not then the evironmental effect of marine traffic are part of the costs.  You can be sure if "reballasting the track" had a potential evironmental damage there are people ready to demand one.[/quote]I'm not sure I follow you.  Are you saying that since the EIS is required, it proves that there are environmental effects of dredging beyong that of reballasting or replacing rail?  Isn't that a bit of circular logic?So if the Democrats decide that an EIS is required for rail line maintenance, will that prove that environmental damage occurs with reballasting?  Of course not, it's all red tape with no purpose other than to stall projects for no good reason other than to make a bunch of far lefties feel good about themselves.What I pointed out is that the environmental "costs" of dredging are purely hypothetical - one has to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that nothing significantly bad will happen to the overall environment, rather than the proponents of environmental regs having to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that significant environmental damage will in fact happen.  And this is a big problem, one that goes beyond dredging, one that effects modern railroad construction as well.  The DM&E has had to re-re-re-revamp it's EIS for it's new construction - lucky for them that once things are in place they won't have to come up with an EIS every time they perform maintenance!
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