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Friday, January 07, 2005

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Great Lakes Daily News: 07 January 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Consolidate sewers, study urges region
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The National Academies of Science released a study that says cooperation on planning and operating sewerage systems is necessary to stem regional water pollution. Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (1/7)

Cormorant control is showing results
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There's more research under way on double-crested cormorants in the Les Cheneaux Islands region of northern Lake Huron - and, almost certainly, there are fewer cormorants there. Source: Michigan Outdoor News (1/7)

COMMENTARY: Take another look at Adams Mine
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Southgate Township has refused to create a landfill for Toronto's garbage, which makes looking at the Adams Mine more imperative. Source: The Toronto Star (1/7)

EDITORIAL: Apostle Islands/Brokering new wilderness
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Three cheers for creation of permanent wilderness within the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, and three more for naming it after Gaylord Nelson, the former governor and U.S. senator from Wisconsin. Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune (1/7)

Water, and misery, on rise in Indiana
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Floodwaters rose throughout Indiana on Thursday, forcing residents in low-lying areas to flee their homes and leaving others stranded until emergency workers could rescue them. Source: The Indianapolis Star (1/7)

Sweeping land deal approved in Michigan's Upper Peninsula
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Michigan conservationists and state officials have struck a deal to preserve 271,000 acres in eight Upper Peninsula counties, the biggest land-protection project in state history. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (1/6)

Anglers should use caution when ice fishing
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Ice fishing opportunities can be found around the Michigan, but anglers need to use extreme caution. Source: The Detroit News (1/6)

Ash borer assault ready
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Chain saw-toting crews are forging ahead with orders to cut down thousands of ash trees in the thick of winter as part of an ongoing counter-assault against the deadly emerald ash borer. Source: The Toledo Blade (1/6)

COMMENTARY: Lifeless, frozen lakes important part of natural cycle
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Courtesy of the Minnesota Lakes Association and other resources, these are timely insights into what area waters are doing and how they will fare when they lie frozen and, hopefully, snow covered. Source: Minnesota Sun (1/6)

Wisconsin Supreme Court agrees to hear power plant appeal
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take up a lawsuit seeking to stop construction of two coal-fired power plants on the Lake Michigan shore in southeastern Wisconsin. Source: Duluth News Tribune (1/5)

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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."