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Thursday, September 22, 2005

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Great Lakes Daily News: 22 September 2005
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Erie's shoreline gets byway boost
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Lake Erie tourism will get a boost from Washington today when the Federal
Highway Administration designates the Lake Erie Coastal Ohio Trail as one of
the nation's 125 "scenic byways." Source: The Plain Dealer (9/22)


Utilities want bans on drilling eliminated
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Ohio's major natural gas utilities yesterday asked Ohio lawmakers to urge
Congress to lift their bans on drilling under the Great Lakes, in Alaska
wildlife preserves, and along the coastlines. Source: The Toledo Blade (9/22)


Another step is taken to stop Canada's trash
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Canadian trash could not be dumped in Michigan landfills once the federal
government gives the state authority to ban foreign trash under legislation
approved Wednesday by the state House. Source: Detroit Free Press (9/22)


Disease takes toll on N.W. Indiana waterbirds
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In what may be the only outbreak of avian botulism this summer in the Great
Lakes, 34 waterbirds have died on George Lake. Source: Chicago Sun-Times (9/22)


States want to reduce stocked fish in Lake Michigan
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Fisheries officials from Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin will meet
Saturday to discuss plans for reduced salmon stocking in Lake Michigan, in an
effort to avoid the kind of population crash that was experienced in Lake
Huron. Source: Detroit Free Press (9/22)


Granholm, Mackinac Bridge Authority resolve dispute
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Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm on Tuesday returned to the Mackinac Bridge
Authority a number of responsibilities that had been shifted to the Michigan
Department of Transportation. Source: The Sault Ste. Marie Evening News (9/21)


Beach again lures national publicity
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Sandwiched between the Julian Alps in Slovenia and the small West African
republic of Benin, an item on Muskegon's Pere Marquette Beach appears in the
October issue of National Geographic Traveler as a "Beach Find." Source:
Muskegon Chronicle (9/21)


House votes to hand over the Mackinaw to Cheboygan
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The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously voted last week to approve the
conveyance of the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw to the Cheboygan city and
county. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (9/21)


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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."