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GLIN Daily News readers:
Please note that the second story below should refer to NORTH Dakota (not South Dakota as incorrectly reported). The correction reads this way:

Ontario joins fight against Lake of the Woods water proposal
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (5/5)
The province of Ontario is joining Manitoba's fight over a proposal for North Dakota to draw water from Lake of the Woods.

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Great Lakes Daily News: 05 May 2005
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EDITORIAL: Northwest Indiana is ideal location for a shipping hub
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Northwest Indiana has all the ingredients for becoming a major transportation hub. Source: Northwest Indiana Times (5/5)


Ontario joins fight against Lake of the Woods water proposal
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The province of Ontario is joining Manitoba's fight over a proposal for South Dakota to draw water from Lake of the Woods. Source: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (5/5)


Clean water bill gets hung up on funding
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A bill that aims to filter $80 million a year into state and local programs for protecting and restoring water quality in Minnesota is struggling to stay afloat, even though top proponents hope the measure can move forward. Source: Duluth News Tribune (5/5)


Cormorants take a legal hit
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The decrease in foraging pressure by cormorants followed an experiment to reduce their numbers in selected areas of Lake Huron. Some adult birds were killed, and thousands of eggs in nests were oiled to prevent them from hatching. Source: Detroit Free Press (5/5)


COMMENTARY: Emerald ash borer: War will be won or lost in northwest Ohio
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The Ohio Department of Agriculture is acting in cooperation with Indiana, Michigan and Ontario agencies to implement an eradication program to protect North America's ash trees from the fate of the American elm and chestnut. Source: The Toledo Blade (5/5)


1,000 acres marked for return to nature
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In Portage, Ind., a former lakefront industrial site could be a new destination for hiking, fishing and picnicking. Source: Merrillville Post-Tribune (5/5)


Groups file another challenge to power plant project
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Environmentalists have filed another legal challenge to two proposed power plants along Lake Michigan they say will harm the state's air and kill billions of fish in the lake. Source: Duluth News Tribune (5/4)


DeTour light listed on historic register
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The DeTour Reef Light Station in Michigan's Chippewa County was officially listed on the National Register of Historic Places on March 15, 2005. Source: The St. Ignace News (5/4)


COMMENTARY: The straw that could sip the Great Lakes dry
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Critics of Annex 2001 -- the proposed compact entered into by the Great Lakes states and provinces to protect the waters of the Great Lakes -- is not the protection that it purports to be. Source: The Buffalo News (5/1)


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