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Great Lakes Daily News: 17 December 2003
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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2004 could be Year of the Lakes
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At an Albany news conference Tuesday, a coalition of state and national
environmental groups said that 2004 will be the most important year for the
Great Lakes since the 1972 passage of the Clean Water Act. Source: Rochester
Democrat and Chronicle (12/17)


EDITORIAL: Mercury in fish
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It's time for Michigan to advise its residents on high mercury levels in
some fish, including tuna. Source: Detroit Free Press (12/17)


Ice Mountain gains a reprieve
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With support from Gov. Jennifer Granholm's administration, a controversial
bottling plant won an emergency appeal to continue pumping spring water.
Source: Detroit Free Press (12/17)


Green law curbs sprawl in Ontario's Golden Horseshoe
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Development will be banned for a year on more than 243,000 hectares of
agricultural and rural lands in Ontario ranging from Niagara Falls to Lake
Scugog while debate on the permanent greenbelt takes place. Source: The
Toronto Star (12/17)


EDITORIAL: Tug of war on Minnesota's watersheds
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty is catching flak from the state's major farm
organizations over a proposal to protect soil and water in three of
Minnesota's important watersheds. Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune (12/17)


COMMENTARY: Don't retreat on steel tariffs
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The worst thing about the domestic steel industry collapse is how blind
we've become to the way our economic openness is being used against us.
Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press (12/17)


Minnesota hopes to waive mercury-cleanup plans for waterways
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Hoping to cut costs and lessen future restrictions on developers, the
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is trying to persuade the federal
government to waive potentially elaborate cleanup plans for state lakes and
rivers contaminated by mercury. Source: Duluth News Tribune (12/17)


Wolverine makes history in Ontario
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A ongoing project to study wolverines in Ontario has produced the first
live-trapped and radio-collared wolverine in the province's history. Source:
The Thunder Bay-Chronicle (12/16)

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