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Great Lakes Daily News: 02 November 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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EDITORIAL: Lakes invaders
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As the United States and Canada prepare to update their decades-old agreement on
Great Lakes water quality, they need to be told forcefully to stop the arrival
of more invasive species. Source: Detroit Free Press (11/2)


1,000 gallons of diesel fuel spilled in Hot Waters area
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Almost 1,000 gallons of diesel fuel from the FirstEnergy plant spilled into Lake
Erie yesterday in the Hot Waters area, according to Greg Stark, project manager
for Spill Tek, the company hired by FirstEnergy to do the cleanup. Source:
Morning Journal (11/2)


Save the last whale (back)
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Work is under way to bring the SS Meteor, the world's last whaleback ship, back
to its former glory. Superior Public Museums officials are just $20,000 short
of the amount needed for a study to guide its restoration. Source: Duluth News
Tribune (11/2)


EDITORIAL: Control the Seaway
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Here's what not to do about the St. Lawrence Seaway, whose serious problems were
outlined in a just-concluded, three-part series in the Journal Sentinel: Make
it bigger. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (11/1)


EDITORIAL: Unloading some MI state parks not palatable, but worth considering
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The Michigan DNR acknowledges that a look at the viability of the park system is
worthwhile. In fact, reports Gongwer News Service, a citizens committee is
studying how to make the park system - which costs $38 million a year to
operate - more self-sufficient. Source: Lansing State Journal (11/1)


Official: Feds reneg on promise to protect lakes
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Federal agencies are reportedly backing down from a promise to help protect the
Great Lakes, according an official with an area environmental group. Source:
Cheboygan Daily Tribune (11/1)


State sues Great Lakes sewer plant
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Raw sewage from urban areas is a big source of pollution in the Great Lakes. And
a lot of people are fighting over how best to keep it out. Now, the Milwaukee
area's sewer district is once again the focus of a bitter legal fight. Source:
Great Lakes Radio Consortium (10/31)


30 years- Remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald
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Thirty years ago this month (November 10th), the iron ore carrier the Edmund
Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior. 29 men died. The lake carrier was caught in
one of the worst storms recorded on the Great Lakes. Source: Great Lakes Radio
Consortium (10/31)


States, Canada move to block sales of water
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As clean, fresh water becomes an increasingly scarce commodity in many parts of
the world, the fear is that thirsty eyes are turning toward the Great Lakes.
Source: The Washington Post (10/30)


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