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Great Lakes Daily News: 10 January 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Looking ahead to 2005's Great Lakes issues
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This coming year likely will see some major policy decisions regarding the Great Lakes from the eight U.S. states and two provinces in Canada. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (1/10)


Buffalo votes to reduce toxic chemicals
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Buffalo has become the first city in the Great Lakes region to pass a law aimed at curbing the amount of toxic chemicals entering the environment. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (1/10)


Will Toronto aquarium plan float?
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City officials will today announce plans to land a major aquarium in Toronto: an attraction that could boost tourism, help invigorate Ontario Place and the Ex, and end years of skepticism about such a project. Source: The Toronto Star (1/10)


Ontario funds committed for protecting Great Lakes
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The province of Ontario will beef up its commitment this year to protect and restore healthy ecosystems within the Great Lakes and adjoining watersheds. Source: The Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal (1/9)


Study urges water conservation on farms
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A growing population coupled with diminishing fresh water supplies should force major changes in the way the world's farmers water their crops in the coming decades, a recent study recommends. Source: Newsday.com (1/9)


Green power proposal praised
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Wednesday's announcement that Ontario energy regulations will change, giving green power producers the ability to sell it to the province, was welcome news to customers and small companies generating environmentally-friendly power. Source: The St. Catharines Standard (1/8)


Lighthouse preservation gets help from experts
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Preservation groups and private citizens across the state are purchasing Michigan lighthouses as quickly as the U.S. Coast Guard gives up ownership. Source: The Marquette Mining Journal (1/8)


Green Bay pipeline project may need cleanup
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An odor of petroleum gas is prompting further study of whether a consortium of six Green Bay suburbs might have to clean up hazardous waste. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (1/8)


Indian land dispute could have far-reaching effects
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A legal fight over 10 small parcels of land between New York's smallest city and the prosperous Oneida Indian Nation will have far-reaching effects in upstate New York, where more than 330,000 acres are now subject to Indian land claims. Source: New York Newsday (1/8)


Agencies fish around for carp barrier funds
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The new Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal barrier to prevent the spread of Asian carp should be completed next month, but there is still one very big problem: nobody seems to have the money to operate and maintain the barrier. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1/7)


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