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Great Lakes Daily News: 25 October 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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EDITORIAL: You can help clean up the Great Lakes
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Residents of Wisconsin have a huge stake in the IJC's pending review of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, on which they and other residents of the region are being asked to comment. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (10/25)


Detroit suburbs ramp up water system fight
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A move to dilute the Detroit mayor's authority over the regional water system is the latest maneuver in a 28-year-old legal struggle over a system that serves more than 40 percent of Michigan residents. Source: The Detroit News (10/25)


Detroit River wildlife sanctuary expands
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A $300,000 grant has been awarded to the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge that will add 70 acres in Monroe County to the refuge and restore natural habitat near the Fermi II nuclear power plant. Source: The Toledo Blade (10/25)


Energy 'on table' with U.S.
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Canada could retaliate against the United States over the softwood lumber dispute by placing restrictions on any area of U.S.-Canada trade -- including energy -- by the middle of next year, the Minister of International Trade has said. Source: National Post (10/25)


Ten threats: Dead zones in the lakes
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Nonpoint source pollution might partly explain why some shallow areas in the Great Lakes are afflicted by so-called dead zones every summer. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (10/24)


Report: Forest Service should change mission
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A new report by a forest protection group says the increase in logging in National Forests in the Great Lakes region and elsewhere represents a net loss to taxpayers. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (10/24)


Preserving the eroding Mount Pigsah
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Mount Pisgah, the well-known sand dune near Holland State Park, has suffered from its own popularity, and may be nearly 30 feet shorter than it was in the early 20th century. Source: The Grand Rapids Press (10/24)


Thriving season for diving industry
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This year was one of the most successful that the Thousand Islands diving industry has ever experienced, possibly due to the summer's hot and sunny weather. Source: Brockville Recorder & Times (10/24)


Nasty battle over docklands in Toronto
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Ever since Toronto's city fathers literally pushed 10 hectares of landfill into Lake Ontario almost a century ago to make way for more industry, citizens have battled to reclaim the waterfront. Source: The Toronto Star (10/23)


Wisconsin may open private spaceport
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Wisconsin legislators are promoting a plan to set up a Wisconsin Aerospace Authority to promote the state among private entrepreneurs planning to go extraterrestrial. Source: United Press International (10/21)


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