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Great Lakes Daily News: 28 March 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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States to crack down on ship ballast tanks?
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A Michigan lawmaker is urging other states in the region to enter into a multistate compact aimed at limiting the influx of invasive species into the Great Lakes. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (3/28)


Officials optimistic about Toledo port's resurgence
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Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority are aggressively marketing the port's services to Europe and China in hopes of reversing a four-year decline in traffic. Source: The Toledo Blade (3/28)


Opponents maneuver to thwart new coal-burning efforts in Wisconsin
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Opponents of a planned power plant on Lake Michigan are up in arms over new regulations that allow it to be considered an expansion of an adjacent facility, rather than a new plant. Source: The New Standard (3/28)


EDITORIAL: Detroit and Windsor
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Officials studying the best way to create a new crossing for the Detroit-Windsor border will feel increasing pressure from advocates of three proposals, but the binational commission must make an independent decision in the broadest public interest. Source: Detroit Free Press (3/27)


Responsibility for dioxin may be broader
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General Motors and a wastewater treatment plant could be implicated along with Dow Chemical in bearing responsibility for dioxin contamination in the lower Saginaw River and Saginaw Bay. Source: Detroit Free Press (3/27)


Most Lake Erie fish can be eaten, with due caution
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As the fishing season gets under way across Ohio and Michigan, especially on western Lake Erie, more than a few anglers want to know if the fish are safe to eat. Source: The Toledo Blade (3/27)


Local police patrol Michigan's shoreline
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Local law enforcement agencies face serious challenges securing the Great Lakes due to lack of resources and demand for heightened shoreline security, which one expert calls Michigan's Achilles' heel. Source: South Bend Tribune (3/27)


Salmon vacate Lake Huron after forage base collapse
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A king salmon boom on Lake Michigan corresponds with a bust on Lake Huron, most likely because of a decimated supply in the latter of their favorite food, the alewife. Source: Traverse City Record Eagle (3/27)


Sparring officials jeopardize Canada's Kyoto plans
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Canadian efforts to have a $10-billion Kyoto implementation plan in place by April 4 are in jeopardy because of disagreements within the government over the effectiveness of proposals to cut greenhouse gases. Source: The Globe and Mail (3/26)


Emerald ash borer
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The accidental introduction of the emerald ash borer may have been the beginning of the end of the ash tree in the United States. Source: The Fremont News-Messenger (3/25)


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