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Great Lakes News: 14 June 2004
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Few ships checked for invasive species
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Invading creatures from abroad still can reach the Great Lakes -- on
oceangoing ships that don't get tested. Source: Star Tribune (6/14)


Ferry goes for a spin
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The new Lake Ontario cross-lake ferry Spirit of Ontario wowed a few hundred
politicians, dignitaries and community leaders over the weekend. Source:
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (6/14)


Parks dig up sediment solution
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Soil being washed from farmland and construction sites is clogging up many
rivers and lakes around the Great Lakes region, but now the state of
Illinois is finding new uses for the unwanted sludge. Source: Great Lakes
Radio Consortium (6/14)


COMMENTARY: Norton: Feds lack grasp on Great Lakes
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U.S. Interior Secretary Gale Norton suggests that Uncle Sam's right hand
doesn't know what the left is doing on the Great Lakes. Source: The Detroit
News (6/13)


The control of sea lampreys is down to a science
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The plastic tube snaking into the Fox River looked like an I.V. on a
hospital patient as it pumped a dark yellow liquid into the slow-moving
stream. But it was injecting poison, not medicine, into the waters. Source:
Star Tribune (6/13)


Bottled water war can leave many dry
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Great Lakes states long have worried about Asian supertankers scooping up
the region's coveted fresh water or thirsty western states siphoning it away
in massive pipelines. Instead, it's leaving in millions of tiny plastic
bottles. Source: Chicago Tribune (6/13)


Truce possible in dispute over channel sediment
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The open-lake disposal controversy that has pitted state and federal
officials against each other since the mid-1980s may be on the verge of a
one-year truce that could benefit Lake Erie. Source: The Toledo Blade (6/13)


Mercury exposure linked to high rate of hospitalization for cerebral palsy
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Three Ontario communities that have had large industrial releases of mercury
have hospitalization rates for cerebral palsy among boys and men that are up
to five times higher than the average in the rest of the province, a new
research paper shows. Source: The Globe and Mail (6/12)


Feds raise alarm over Toledo coke plant
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Environment Canada expressed concern Friday over the approval of a permit to
be granted Monday for a new coke plant outside Toledo they fear will add
high levels of pollutants to the air and waterways of Windsor and Essex
County. Source: The Windsor Star (6/12)


Great Lakes govs urged to fund another carp barrier
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Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, incoming chairman of the Great Lakes Council of
Governors, says the funding is clearly a federal responsibility. Source:
Madison Capital Times (6/12)


Michigan, federal officials consider landfill cleanup
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Plans for dealing with radioactive waste that's stewing in an old landfill
near Saginaw Bay may be discussed during public hearings next month. Source:
The Bay City Times (6/12)

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