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GLIN NEWS: 06 October 2004

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Great Lakes Daily News: 06 October 2004

A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great

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Huntley elected to lead Great Lakes Commission

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Minnesota state Rep. Tom Huntley, DFL-Duluth, on Tuesday was elected chair

of the Great Lakes Commission, a binational agency representing the eight

U.S. states and two Canadian provinces that border the Great Lakes. Source:

Duluth News Tribune (10/6)





COMMENTARY: Troubles -- barge and small -- arise with Asian carp barrier

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At best, the planned permanent fish barrier aimed at preventing the presence

of Asian carp in the Great Lakes is a stop-gap measure, and one that is

going through a series of bureaucratic setbacks. Source: Chicago Sun-Times

(10/6)





Giant wind farm proposed near Kincardine

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An estimated $112 million wind farm project, equal to the largest now in

Canada, has been floated for the shores of Lake Huron. Source: The London

Free Press (10/6)





U.S. champion tree could be in trouble

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With Asia's deadly emerald ash borer encroaching, one of Michigan's most

famous ash trees soon could be in trouble. Source: The Toledo Blade (10/6)





Cargo shipments up 8 percent at Port of Indiana

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Indiana's Lake Michigan port reported a total of 1.3 million tons of cargo

in the first eight months of 2004, with the biggest increases in steel and

limestone. Source: The Northwest Indiana Times (10/6)





COMMENTARY: Time to act on Great Lakes is now

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Those who use the Great Lakes - everyone from local governmental units to

private industry - need to invest in the lakes by returning treated

wastewater, protecting against shoreline erosion, restoring wetlands and not

harming the many tributaries that feed the lakes. Source: Madison Capital

Times (10/6)





New York's boating industry has $2.4B impact

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A state-sponsored study by Cornell University pegs the economic impact of

the recreational boating industry at $2.4 billion throughout New York.

Source: Buffalo Business First (10/5)





EPA completes creosote cleanup along Michigan bay shoreline

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has completed a $1.8 million

cleanup and containment of creosote contamination along the Little Bay de

Noc shoreline of Lake Michigan. Source: Waste News (10/5)





Canadian trash ban hits snarls

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A bipartisan bill to allow states to ban imported Canadian trash has cleared

a first hurdle in the U.S. House of Representatives. But prospects for

passage before looming adjournment of Congress are nil. Source: The Detroit

News (10/3)





Reunion brings workers, sailors together

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A reunion this week is paying tribute to former crewmembers of the

submarines built in Manitowoc, Wis. during World War II, and the shipyard

workers who built them. Source: Manitowoc Herald Tribune (10/3)





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