Thursday, January 29, 2004

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Great Lakes Daily News: 29 January 2004
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Bush to seek more cash to clean up Great Lakes
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The Bush administration is expected to announce today it wants to more than
quadruple the money it is spending on ridding toxic pollution from the Great
Lakes basin. Source: The Plain Dealer (1/29)


Official lauds security partnership of Great Lakes firms
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Security against terrorism has been greatly enhanced in the Great Lakes
region by the private sector's willingness to help the U.S. and Canadian
governments protect the region's shipping channel. Source: The Toledo Blade
(1/29)


Option to landfill PCBs not buried yet
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Hours after the Outagamie County Board sought to bury a plan to dump
PCB-laden Fox River sediment into landfills, a Wisconsin state official
promised to kill further debate. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (1/29)


Wetlands bill criticized by environmentalists
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Area environmentalists are worried that a new Indiana state law could
threaten several isolated wetlands, especially in Lake County. Source:
Merrillville Post-Tribune (1/29)


COMMENTARY: Low lake levels are still big concern
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Low water levels across Michigan continue to produce more than a few boating
problems. Source: Heritage Newspapers (1/29)


Playing it safe on the sled
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Trails, roads and lakes are all busy with snowmobilers so people should
remember to be safe during the heart of the season. Source: Cadillac News
(1/29)


Lake Michigan water intake pipes freeze up for 3 Wisconsin towns
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Subzero cold gripped Wisconsin Thursday, causing icing in the two water
intake pipes in Lake Michigan for the water system serving Sheboygan,
Sheboygan Falls and Kohler. Source: Star Tribune (1/29)


50 gather to hear pros, cons of ethanol plant
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Pennsylvania residents gather to learn what is necessary to develop an
ethanol plant near Meadville. Source: Erie Times-News (1/28)


Peshtigo fisheries biologist heads DNR effort to build Bay sturgeon
population
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So rare had sturgeon become on the lower bay by the 1950s that lakeside
residents had forgotten what the species - which barely 100 years earlier
was regarded as one of the most numerous fish in the Great Lakes - looked
like. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (1/25)

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