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Friday, September 10, 2004

GLIN NEWS: 10 September 2004

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Ferry could be saved by local interests
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A group of Rochester business leaders might invest in the high-speed ferry to get the idle ship cruising across Lake Ontario again. Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (9/10)

Port Huron wins maritime status
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The state of Michigan now recognizes Port Huron as the Maritime Capital of the Great Lakes. Source: The Port Huron Times-Herald (9/10)

Great Lakes proposal opposed
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A proposal that would require six of the eight Great Lakes governors to approve any new requests from communities or businesses within the lakes' basin to consume more than 5 million gallons of water a day could create bureaucratic chaos, a spokesman for the Council of Great Lakes Industries says. Source: Duluth News Tribune (9/10)

Racine to respond to dumping citation
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The city of Racine may incur fines or be required to alter its sanitary sewer system after dumping 1.3 million gallons of sewage into Lake Michigan this year, despite having spent $300,000 on testing and repairs to prevent overflows. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (9/10)

Reborn, Lake Erie beckons kayakers
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Sitting in calm, lazy water and surrounded by lily pads and great blue herons, it's hard to imagine the Lake Erie Islands as anything but a kayaker's retreat. Source: The New York Times (9/10)

Panel agrees on harbor corrosion
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Five national corrosion experts confirmed that something unusual is eating away at the submerged steel underpinnings in Duluth's Twin Port, and recommended further investigation of structures at other Great Lakes ports. Source: Duluth News Tribune (9/9)

Researchers try to stay ahead of pollution
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Great Lakes scientists are investigating new ways to assess and forecast beach contamination. Source: Muskegon Chronicle (9/9)

Kawkawlin River treated for weeds, now clogged with lilies
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Water lilies have taken the place of aquatic weeds that were clogging the Kawkawlin River in Bay County, Michigan. Source: The Bay City Times (9/9)

Canada's port cities worst sewage polluters, says report card
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Canada's port cities rank among the world's worst offenders when it comes to spewing billions of litres of stinking and dangerous untreated sewage into open waters, says a report released Wednesday by environmental groups. Source: Canadian Press (9/8)

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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."