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Friday, February 11, 2005

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Great Lakes Daily News: 11 February 2005
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Effects of U.S. mercury decision may drift north
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Coal-fired power plants south of the border are the largest unregulated source of airborne mercury pollution in the United States, and some of it inevitably drifts into Canada. Source: The Globe and Mail (2/11)

Costs jump for pipeline project
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The costs for six Green Bay suburbs' shared water pipeline to Manitowoc is nearly $18 million above previous estimates, according to new figures. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (2/11)

Doyle targets invasive species with budget boost
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Spending on Wisconsin's invasive plant and animal species got a big boost in Gov. Jim Doyle's budget this week. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2/11)

EDITORIAL: Memo to Indiana DNR: Mind your own dam business
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The Indiana Department of Natural Resources' water division, responsible for overseeing the condition of dams in Indiana, needs to step up its inspection process to ensure that existing dams don't become dangerous. Source: The Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette (2/11)

Security cameras to keep an eye on Chicago's lakefront
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Surveillance cameras capable of spotting suspicious or unusual activity will be installed from one end of Lake Shore Drive to the other -- and all along Chicago's lakefront -- under a new "Homeland Security grid" unveiled Thursday. Source: Chicago Sun-Times (2/11)

EDITORIAL: A good idea for Milwaukee's lakefront
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Under terms of a 30-year-lease with the Milwaukee County, the American Indian group, HONOR, will convert an abandoned Coast Guard station on the lakefront into an education and cultural center. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2/11)

Spearfishers rush out for quick sturgeon season
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The 2005 sturgeon-spearing season opens Saturday, but these days it's more of a race than a season, trimmed from 16 days to two. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (2/11)

EPA expands band's authority
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has recognized the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa as the first in Wisconsin to be granted the authority to administer parts of the Clean Air Act in a manner similar to states. Source: The Ironwood Daily Globe (2/10)

Court's abuzz as city preps to bid on ferry
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It's been a busy week in federal court for Rochester's high-speed ferry. Source: Rochester Democrat and Chronicle (2/10)

Common arsenical pesticide under scrutiny
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Canada and the United States are re-evaluating registrations for MSMA, a pesticide that keeps golf courses weed-free, but also leaches into groundwater and can move through wildlife food chains. Source: Environmental Science & Technology (2/9)

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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."