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Great Lakes Daily News: 17 August 2004
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Bush, opponents debate Great Lakes water protection
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President Bush is portraying himself as a strong advocate for the Great
Lakes, but critics say he hasn't backed up his talk with action. Source:
Detroit Free Press (8/17)

Coalition urges province to impose fees for water
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A coalition of environmental and citizen groups is demanding that Ontario
impose fees for water-taking as part of an overhaul of water protection
legislation. Source: The London Free Press (8/17)

More than 170 report illness after visiting Put-in-Bay area
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A mysterious illness sweeping the Put-in-Bay area has sickened dozens of
residents and visitors with 24-hour bouts of nausea, chills, fever,
abdominal cramps, vomiting, and diarrhea. Source: The Toledo Blade (8/17)

Baldwin visit boosts cool-water system
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Hollywood actor and renewable energy supporter Alec Baldwin will be on hand
as Toronto launches the largest alternative energy project in the world: a
$170-million initiative that uses cold lake water to cool downtown office
towers. Source: The Toronto Star (8/17)

Shipments of iron ore, steel are up
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Shipments of iron ore on the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway headed for
Great Lakes basin steelmakers are up 20 percent from a year ago. Source:
Duluth News Tribune (8/16)

Michigan tagged best for boating by magazine
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Michigan recently captured a summer recreation top ranking: Best Boating
State from BoatingLife magazine. Source: Lansing State Journal (8/16)

Former 3M chemical is widespread
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Four years after 3M stopped making the chemicals behind such innovative
products as Teflon, Scotchgard and Stainmaster, the compounds are showing up
everywhere from remote Minnesota lakes to polar bears in Alaska and
albatrosses in the Pacific Ocean. Source: Star Tribune (8/15)

Water everywhere, but not to drink
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The front line of the Great Lakes water wars runs right through Ohio's Homer
Township, where which side of the road you live on dictates whether or not
you can tap into Lake Erie water. Source: The Plain Dealer (8/15)

Conflicts between hikers, bikers play into new forest plan
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Proposed new rules for motorized, off-road vehicles are on track in the
Huron-Manistee National Forests, but conflicts between hikers and mountain
bikers are just around the curve. Source: The Bay City Times (8/15)

Improvements aplenty in state forest campgrounds
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Battered and beleaguered in the 1990s due to severe budget cuts, Michigan's
state forest system is on the rebound, thanks to an increase in the nightly
camping fee. Source: Booth Newspapers (8/15)

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