GLIN NEWS: 23 September 2004

Thursday, September 23, 2004

GLIN NEWS: 23 September 2004

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

Support GLIN Daily News: http://www.glin.net/news/sponsor/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =  Great Lakes Daily News: 23 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/   Great Lakes plan raises big concerns ---------------------------------------- It was standing-room only at a London, Ontario meeting about a controversial plan promoted as a way to protect the Great Lakes, but which some experts believe jeopardizes them. Source: The London Free Press (9/23)   Five Oakland lakes polluted with mercury ---------------------------------------- A long list of lakes in Michigan, Ohio and Wisconsin in which fish were tested and found to contain high levels of the toxic metal has been released by national and state environmental groups. Source: The Detroit News (9/23)   Uncertainty over security freezes winter port outlook ---------------------------------------- Duluth Seaway Port Authority usually has signed agreements by now for the five winter berths it controls, but uncertainty about new security requirements has given ship operators cold feet this fall. Source: Duluth News Tribune (9/23)   Asian carp continue to creep toward Lake Michigan ---------------------------------------- Asian carp have found their way into the Des Plains River watershed and Kankakee River, drawing closer to Lake Michigan and threatening the ecosystem of the world's largest freshwater lakes. Source: Star Newspapers (9/23)   Boat lock remnants uncovered ---------------------------------------- Construction workers digging trenches for a strip mall have unearthed the 165-year-old remains of a boat lock system from the never-completed Clinton-Kalamazoo Canal in Michigan. Source: The Detroit News (9/23)   Dredging impact study due next week ---------------------------------------- An environmental impact analysis of the planned Indiana Harbor and Shipping Canal dredging project is expected to recommend air quality monitoring for the immediate residential area and a nearby high school. Source: The Northwest Indiana Times (9/23)   COMMENTARY: No-growth movement fosters water panic ---------------------------------------- The anti-sprawl movement is vigorously lobbying for stiffer controls over water use - a backdoor means of blocking the development they hate. Source: The Detroit News (9/22)   Governments lose land claim appeal ---------------------------------------- A court case that could have wide implications for First Nations in Canada will go ahead after Ontario divisional court dismissed an appeal by the federal and provincial governments of a Walpole Island land claim. Source: The London Free Press (9/22)   List of Mackinaw suitors is long ---------------------------------------- At least six communities are vying to become the final home port of the icebreaker Mackinaw after the aging Coast Guard cutter is mothballed. Source: Cheboygan Daily Tribune (9/22)   2002 Davis-Besse problem ranked among worst ever ---------------------------------------- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's research arm has ranked Davis-Besse's recent meltdown threat as one of the most serious ever at an American nuclear plant. Source: The Toledo Blade (9/21)   Did you miss a day of Daily News? Remember to use our searchable story archive at http://www.great-lakes.net/news/inthenews.html   = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Great Lakes Daily News is a collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network (www.glin.net) and the Great Lakes Radio Consortium (www.glrc.org), both based in Ann Arbor, Mich.  TO SUBSCRIBE and receive this Great Lakes news compendium daily, see www.glin.net/forms/dailynews_form.html  TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a message to majordomo@great-lakes.net with the command 'unsubscribe dailynews' in the body of the message.  TO SUBMIT A NEWS STORY: www.glin.net/forms/news_form.html = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =  .

All of my currently available poetry books can be purchased at:
http://www.lulu.com/Daniel-Stafford
------
The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal
Submit your Great Lakes area renewable energy stories today! See the G.L. Zephyr main page for details...
or just...SUBMIT A STORY
------

No comments:

Side Bar Links

Illinois Renewable Energy Association site

---------------
The AWEA's annual expo:
Global WINDPOWER 2004
McCormick Place
Chicago, Illinois, USA
March 28-31, 2004

I was there...
---------------

Dan Stafford - Publisher
Click on this pic to e-mail Dan.
WE WELCOME ENERGY STORY SUBMISSIONS!
Please note the E-mail link by the title of the webpage. Comments, stories, and article submissions are welcome. Any accepted submission entitles the submitter to a link on the Journal page included at the bottom of their submitted entry when published to the journal. The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal makes no claim as to the accuracy of submitted material. The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal neither endorses nor opposes opinions expressed in submitted material. Submitter must provide name, city, and state or country. The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal imples no promise to publish all submissions. Adult content will definitely NOT be published. Submitted material will be screened and appropriate entries published at the owner's discretion.

Safe, healthy, good for the economy, good for the environment, good for farmers, good for you, and just downright good produce:

State-by-state directory of farmers' markets

I strongly encourage those seriously interested in learning about the technology, players, politics, and issues of Wind Energy to spend time browsing the American Wind Energy Association website. They are the premier industry trade organization and have extensive resources available.
(www.awea.org)

Alpha Solar
Clean energy generation systems for off-grid living and environmental impact reduction.

The Great Lakes Information Network:

*PING*

The Distributed Resources & Green Power weBlog by Bruce Irving

GOT AN ENVIRONMENTAL QUESTION? Send it to EarthTalk, c/o E/The Environmental Magazine,
P.O. Box 5098, Westport, CT 06881; submit your question at www.emagazine.com;
or e-mail Earth Talk at earthtalk@emagazine.com.

OTEC News weBlog: Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion

The Green Ocean Project: Using solar energy to distill water for agriculture.

Other weBlogs by Daniel Stafford:

The Great Lakes Zephyr - Wind Energy & Hydrogen Journal

*Spell Book*

Affirmation Station

Remembering Mom

Save Hotel Baker

Uncle Harold's Farm

The First Church of Healing The Earth

The Empty Hand

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."