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Wednesday, September 08, 2004

GLIN NEWS: 08 September 2004

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Great Lakes Daily News: 08 September 2004

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Rochester-Toronto ferry stranded by debt
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Canadian American Transportation Systems announced yesterday it would suspend operations of the Rochester-Toronto ferry, blaming start-up delays, unexpected custom costs, high fuel costs and the failure to get a license from U.S. officials to carry trucks. Source: The Toronto Star (9/8)

Michigan decal benefits Great Lakes
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Proceeds from Michigan's new Great Lakes Protection Fund Decal campaign will support education and research to eliminate zebra mussels and other invasive pests from the Great Lakes. Source: The Holland Sentinel (9/8)

Celebrate Lake Erie
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The open house Saturday at South Bass Island Lighthouse is just one of dozens of events planned for Coastweeks, a monthlong celebration of Lake Erie. Source: The Plain Dealer (9/8)

Quarantine area expanded in fight against pine beetle
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The pine shoot beetle, a pesky insect that can weaken or kill Christmas trees and other valuable pine nursery and forest products, is gaining ground in New York and elsewhere in the East and Midwest. Source: The Ithaca Journal (9/8)

Toronto trash not welcome in Windsor landfill
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The Windsor-Essex County solid waste authority would stick to its policy of not accepting any out-of-region trash should Toronto trash trucks be stopped from entering Michigan starting Oct. 1. Source: The Windsor Star (9/8)

Smaller boat has some tall tales to tell
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Lake Superior shipwreck hunters have realized they found a small fishing and cargo boat, not the bulk freighter Robert Wallace, as originally reported. Source: Duluth News Tribune (9/8)

The risky trail of sludge, slag, solvents and cyanide
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Canadian hazardous-waste depots are falling woefully short of environmental standards, according to a government-funded study in which consultants found flaming barrels of chemicals and toxic sludge spilling into sewers. Source: The Globe and Mail (9/7)

EDITORIAL: Fund might turn up a sewer solution
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A new South Bend, Ind., plan has the potential to dramatically improve waterway quality and reduce risk to public health that can come from exposure to sewage. Source: South Bend Tribune (9/7)

Science Center proposes wind turbine generator
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If a proposal by Cleveland's Great Lakes Science Center to build a wind turbine along Lake Erie is approved, it would be Ohio's first turbine along Lake Erie and in an urban setting. Source: The Plain Dealer (9/6)

EPA to regulate airplane de-icing fluid?
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Officials with the EPA say de-icing chemicals used on planes and taxiways can contaminate surface water. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (9/6)

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Why I Publish This Blog:

"One thing that many people do not realize is that states like Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana,
and Michigan are sitting on a gold mine of wind energy potential. Or, more properly, next to the mine.
The Great Lakes are probably the area in the USA with the third largest inland wind energy potential.
Think of just the nickname for Chicago. "The Windy City". Milwaukee is even windier, I can tell you.
Why? Because they sit on the edge of a great flat area where there is both a land-water temperature
differential, and a large flat expanse of water that is comparably shallow.
Oilrigs certainly operate in deeper waters. And you won't have to construct transmission lines all the
way from the plains of Montana to put it to use.

The Great Lakes area has an opportunity to get the jump on wind energy's future, if that fact is
recognized and exploited. Wind energy means jobs for construction and maintenance workers, thousands
of them. Wind energy means leasing rights and extra money for family farmers struggling to make it on
agriculture alone. In most cases farmers can grow crops right up to the base of a windmill. The land
footprint has a small impact on total farm acreage. Wind energy also means freedom from fluctuating
fuel prices. Wind is free. The cost of a barrel of polluting oil can be raised or lowered drastically
based on fears or political whims. The potential gains are enormous. We've all seen the flow of good
manufacturing jobs out of the area. Well, they can't tell the wind to blow in another country so it's
more "convenient" or cheaper to produce. The wind is perfectly happy to whip up opportunities for us
right around here. Most of all, because we here in the Great Lakes region have the potential to have
a huge positive impact on U.S. energy industry emissions' contribution to global warming."