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Tuesday, September 21, 2004

GLIN NEWS: 21 September 2004

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Great Lakes Daily News: 21 September 2004 A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great Lakes Radio Consortium. For links to these stories and more, visit http://www.great-lakes.net/news/

COMMENTARY: Water protection proposals aren't perfect, but negotiations must persist
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This month, in public meetings across Ontario and Quebec, Canadians have been invited to come and defend our greatest national treasure - our water - from diversions and harmful withdrawals.
Source: The Globe and Mail (9/21)

Oakland seeks $7 million for drain work
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Residents in 29 southeastern Oakland County communities could see an end to most sewage overflows into two major rivers if the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday agrees to spend $7 million needed to complete two drain projects.
Source: The Detroit News (9/21)

Two charter ships are planned for Detroit River
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Two new charter ships are making plans to ply the Detroit River next spring, including a 1,900-passenger paddleboat called the Detroit Princess, which evokes memories of ships that once ferried passengers from Detroit to the Boblo Island amusement park.
Source: The Detroit News (9/21)

Power plant foes seek detailed study
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Questions raised by a biologist at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency demonstrate the need for a more detailed review of the environmental impact of We Energies' planned Oak Creek power plant, project opponents said Monday.
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (9/20)

Streamside forests play role in pollution cleanup
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Scientists have known for years that streamside forests help stop certain pollutants from entering the waterway, but new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows that those forests have added benefits.
Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (9/20)

Michigan strikes good bargain on new clean air rules
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Michigan has just dodged tough, economy-busting air quality rules by persuading the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to give the state more flexibility to handle the problem.
Source: The Detroit News (9/20)

Ohio to stock waterways with trout
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Approximately 25,000 rainbow trout, measuring 10 to 13 inches in length, will be released into 25 Ohio waterways this October, according to the Ohio Department of natural Resources Division of Wildlife.
Source: Port Clinton News Herald (9/20)

Beach sweepers go out in force
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Local beaches and lakes up and down the Lake Michigan shoreline were cleaned up on Saturday as part of International Coastal Cleanup, sponsored by the Lake Michigan Federation.
Source: The Muskegon Chronicle (9/20)

COMMENTARY: Living with the natural world
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The credo of the Algonquin to Adirondack Conservation Association (A2A) is: "The wild and the civilized can and should coexist", but can they?
Source: The Toronto Star (9/18)

Great Lakes warship sails again
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The Friends Good Will replica ship will float in a slip at the Michigan Maritime Museum and serve as a hands-on vehicle for teaching Great Lakes history, sailing, navigation, knot-tying and more.
Source: The Grand Rapids Press (9/18)

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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."