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Wednesday, October 13, 2004

GLIN NEWS: 13 October 2004

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Great Lakes Daily News: 13 October 2004
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Minnesota the site of newest national wildlife refuge
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A 35,000-acre tallgrass prairie and wetland area in northwestern Minnesota called Glacial Ridge is the country's newest national wildlife refuge. Source: Duluth News Tribune (10/13)

EPA, kids gauge Clinton River's health
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Rapid urban expansion and subsequent loss of habitat is contributing to water quality problems in the Clinton River watershed, leading to closer examination by the EPA and 26 local schools. Source: The Detroit News (10/13)

If you develop the riverwalk, they will come
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Green Bay's downtown has a river of opportunity flowing through it, with wide green areas for parks, kiosks, boutiques and restaurants. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (10/13)

Strike by 125,000 Canadian public workers snarls border
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Canadians and Americans trying to cross the border have hit a roadblock with a strike by 125,000 Canadian public employees across the country. Source: Detroit Free Press (10/13)

Toronto gets a B-plus for air pollution efforts
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Despite a summer that saw an increase in smog advisories, the Toronto Environmental Alliance said yesterday that Toronto's City Hall deserves a respectable B-plus for its efforts to fight air pollution. Source: The Globe and Mail (10/13)

USGS conducting hydrologic studies at Yellow Dog Plains
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A local citizens group concerned about potential sulfide mining on the Yellowdog Plains is lauding the U.S. Geological Survey's entry into hydrologic studies of the area's watersheds. Source: The Daily Mining Gazette (10/12)

'Tall Ship' project passes through several phases of development
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An ambitious proposal to build replica Great Lakes schooners and Mackinaw boats on the St. Ignace waterfront has gone through several evolutions since it was originally unveiled at a mid-summer public hearing. Source: The Sault Ste. Marie Evening News (10/11)

EDITORIAL: Firm wants to get high-speed ferry up and running again
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The prospect of losing such a unique attraction has unloosed varying degrees of cynicism, sadness, bewilderment and yearning in every corner of this faded industrial city in western New York. Source: The Buffalo News (10/11)

Septic waste often illegally dumped in woods, ditches
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Michigan officials estimate that one in five septic haulers, maybe more, don't properly dispose of untreated human waste, dumping it into woods, ditches or on unpermitted land, where waste washes into streams, rivers or other waterways. Source: The Bay City Times (10/10)

EDITORIAL: Plan to protect lakes called timely
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A recent New York hearing on the draft Annex 2001 Implementing Agreements centered around the need for enhanced conservation measures. Source: The Buffalo News (10/6)

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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."