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Great Lakes Daily News: 21 April 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Salmon sink and swim
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The disappearance of salmon seems to be resulting in a big increase in the number of lake trout in Lake Huron. Source: Detroit Free Press (4/21)


EDITORIAL: Great Lakes protection
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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has put in place a key piece for a plan to have Michigan -- ideally joined by other Great Lakes states and provinces -- regulate the ballast water of ocean-going ships. Source: Detroit Free Press (4/21)


Great Lakes oil and gas drilling ban is blocked
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A House committee Wednesday killed a plan to permanently ban oil and gas drilling on the Great Lakes, the source of one-fifth of the world's fresh surface water. Source: The Detroit News (4/21)


GLA prepares to open first saltwater exhibit
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The Great Lakes Aquarium is on track to open its first-ever saltwater exhibit June 1. Source: Duluth News Tribune (4/21)


Army Corps cutting back on dredging
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will end dredging and maintenance of harbors with annual commerce of less than a million tons if President George Bush's funding proposal stands. Source: The Mining Journal (4/20)


Shore dispute to make encore
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Swimmers, boaters and anglers are welcome to use the water lapping the shore of Lake Erie, but the land underneath is private property, lakefront property owners say. Source: The Plain Dealer (4/19)


Chronic wasting disease foundin New York
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Chronic Wasting Disease has now been found in New York and officials there are killing and testing hundreds of wild deer in an effort to keep the fatal brain disease from spreading to other animals. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (4/18)


FirstEnergy, one nuclear plant back, has another under spotlight
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FirstEnergy Corp. was still struggling to get one nuclear power plant back in operation when a series of problems and botched repairs at its second Ohio plant alarmed critics and put the utility in the cross hairs of regulators. Source: The Morning Journal (4/18)


Cliffs-Erie fined for water violations
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Cliffs-Erie LLC has paid a $56,000 fine to the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency after a million gallons of coal-ash-soaked water leaked out of a holding pond at the company's Taconite Harbor shipping facility on Lake Superior. Source: Duluth News Tribune (4/16)


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