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Friday, November 19, 2004

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Great Lakes Daily News: 19 November 2004
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Sleeping Bear lakeshore expands
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More than 100 acres of sensitive land near the Crystal River in Leelanau County is being purchased for addition to the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore. Source: The Detroit News (11/19)

Organizers pitch lakefront museum in Indiana
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Organizers of an ambitious $25 million Lake Michigan waterfront museum project in Gary have a goal to break ground on it by 2006. Source: Merrillville Post-Tribune (11/19)

Natives win land-use ruling in Canada
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Federal and provincial governments must consult First Nations about use of disputed land even before aboriginal claims are proven, says Canada's top court. Source: The London Free Press (11/19)

Minnesota's wolf numbers stable
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Minnesota's population of wolves is steady or slightly growing, according to a Minnesota Department of Natural Resources survey released Thursday. Source: Duluth News Tribune (11/19)

Rochester's mayor calls saving ferry urgent
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The city must save Rochester's high-speed ferry service before the ship is sold elsewhere and sails away for good, taking a boatload of taxpayer money with it, according to Mayor William A. Johnson Jr. Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (11/19)

EDITORIAL: Healthy return, but it's too soon to cut wolf protections
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The Upper Peninsula now hosts at least 77 wolf packs and there's the possibility that they also are crossing the Mackinac Straits, but the bigger issue is how much protection to keep giving the gray wolf. Source: Detroit Free Press (11/19)

Wisconsin water pollution enforcement faltering
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In a new report, an environmental watchdog group found lax enforcement of Wisconsin water permits that in some cases has allowed polluters to run up hundreds of violations without paying penalties. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (11/18)

Incinerator ban bill advances in Illinois
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Illinois could become the first state nationwide to ban medical waste incinerators, thanks to citizen efforts launched here raising concerns about the health impacts of the process. Source: Evanston Review (11/18)

Garbage pellets may fuel factories
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York Region's great hope to stop sending household trash to Michigan in the next few years depends on the approval of a plan to use garbage pellets as a new "alternative fuel". Source: YorkRegion.com (11/18)

Health Canada reviewing fish guidelines
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Mounting evidence that mercury contamination can damage fetal brain development has pushed Health Canada to review its guidelines on fish consumption by women of childbearing age. Source: Canadian Press (11/17)

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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."