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Monday, March 13, 2006

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Great Lakes Daily News: 13 March 2006
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Budget cuts to fuel ash borer's spread?
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U.S. senators are asking the Department of Agriculture for emergency funding to help control the spread of the emerald ash borer, after Congress sharply reduced funding for the program. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (3/13)

Mackinaw still headed to breakout
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Despite the fifth-warmest winter in recorded Michigan history, the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Mackinaw is still needed to break ice in the Straits of Mackinac, the St. Mary's River and Whitefish Bay. Source: Cheboygan Daily Tribune (3/13)

Increased biodiesel demand fueling production
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Undergraduates at the University at Buffalo are four months into a pilot project to make biodiesel from waste grease collected from dining facilities, one of several biodiesel projects in the Buffalo area. Source: Buffalo Business First (3/13)

School districts encouraging urban sprawl?
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Zoning laws that encourage single family homes on large lots help boost local tax revenues and limit school enrollments, but they are also being criticized for promoting sprawl. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (3/13)

Diving into water, air quality lessons
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The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality's Michigan Environmental Education Curriculum Support (MEECS) uses environmentally based science lessons to help young learners appreciate the natural resources around them. Source: The Huron Daily Tribune (3/13)

What's draining two Great Lakes?
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is disputing some key findings of a controversial report that claims the levels of lakes Michigan and Huron have been on a permanent decline for at least 44 years. Source: The Detroit News (3/12)

The melting of Minnesota
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Across Minnesota, there's a growing conviction that what's happening on the lakes, in the woods and in back yards is linked to warming patterns evident around the world. Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune (3/12)

Quake shakes Lake County, Ohio residents from their routine
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The strongest of four earthquakes to occur under Lake Erie this year shook houses and rattled dishes for a few seconds Saturday morning. Source: The Plain Dealer (3/12)

The alien invaders on our doorstep
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A multibillion-dollar-a-year effort not only aims to keep out invasive species but also to cope with those that have already landed and become a permanent and unwanted fixture in the local environment. Source: The Toronto Star (3/11)

Malibu, Bondi Beach and ... the Great Lakes?
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For decades, the Great Lakes have drawn their own kind of surfer - a hearty breed of ice warriors who ride those Great White Waves all year round. Source: The Toronto Star (3/11)

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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."