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Great Lakes Daily News: 18 February 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Rochester worries as Marines tour ferry; bid called unlikely
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The U.S. Marine Corps toured Rochester's high-speed ferry this week, but a military spokesman says the visit was merely educational and he doesn't think there's serious interest in buying the ship. Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (2/18)


Price tag for Kyoto rises fast in Canada
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The Canadian government is expected to pump between $5-billion and $6-billion into next week's budget for environmental measures, fuelled by its commitment to the controversial Kyoto accord. Source: The Globe and Mail (2/18)


Door County tourism crusade a blast from the past
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In its most recent marketing to attract tourism, Door County is turning to glowing material written in the mid-1600s. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (2/18)


Federal help possible for high and dry businesses
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Marinas, charter fishing operations, and other small businesses impacted by the decline in Great Lakes water levels in recent years might become eligible for emergency financial assistance from the federal Small Business Administration. Source: The Toledo Blade (2/18)


EDITORIAL: Canada should pursue voluntary emissions plan
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Canadian government officials and automakers should adopt the proposed voluntary agreement that is being written to help tighten emissions requirements for cars and trucks sold in Canada. Source: The Detroit News (2/18)


Scientists search for sturgeon in Saginaw River Watershed
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to begin a three-year project next month to see if lake sturgeon, a species native to the area, are swimming in from Saginaw Bay and up the Saginaw River to drop eggs in the Tittabawassee and Cass rivers. Source: The Bay City Times (2/17)


EPA agrees to consider requiring pollution cuts in Michigan, 12 other states
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The government agreed Thursday to decide by this summer whether it should force coal-fired power plants in Michigan and 12 other states to reduce unhealthy air pollution that also is blamed for obscuring views of the Smoky Mountains. Source: Detroit Free Press (2/17)


A race to fix a 30-year-old 'solution'
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In a scene repeated in more than a dozen countries from Hungary to Chile to the United States, tens of millions of people are drinking from arsenic-tainted wells, the same wells created from the 1970s to the present to provide clean water. Source: The Christian Science Monitor (2/17)


First Ohio eagle nest found
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Ohio's bald eagle nesting season is under way as an eagle pair in Huron County has already begun incubating eggs. Source: The Fremont News-Messenger (2/17)


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