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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

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Great Lakes Daily News: 23 August 2006
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Wrecked ship's historic bell comes back to light
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Divers have retrieved the bell of the Cortland, last rung in 1868, from the site of the Lake Erie shipwreck, discovered just a year ago. Source: The Plain Dealer (8/23)

Perry memorial to reopen
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Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial on Lake Erie, closed since late June when a 500-pound chunk of granite fell from the top of the monument, will reopen Saturday. Source: The Toledo Blade (8/23)

Mercury remains a major concern
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Coal is the last remaining major cause of mercury pollution that remains unregulated, and with more than 30 new coal-fired power plants proposed for Great Lakes states, that raises concerns. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/23)

Slimy green algae makes a comeback
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The southeastern coast of Wisconsin's Door Peninsula, which separates the lake from Green Bay, is a notorious spot for the slimy, green algae called cladophora. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/23)

Wisconsin panel balks at DNR limits on herbicide byproduct in wells
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A state legislative committee has balked at approving rules proposed by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources for limiting a farm herbicide byproduct in groundwater. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (8/22)

'Factory farms' fight image problem, odor
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At one of Wisconsin's largest dairy operations, new technologies are helping to reduce the risk of groundwater pollution, generate electricity from methane gas and create organic bedding material from the herd's solid waste. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/22)

EDITORIAL: Sand company should face reality and just move on
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Now that a state court has upheld a decision prohibiting Nugent Sand from piping excess water through an sensitive sand due, it's time for the sand mining company to get on with business. Source: Muskegon Chronicle (8/22)

Greening Michigan's brownfields
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A professor at Michigan State University is trying to raise biofuel crops on a former superfund site in order to see whether such plants can flourish in tainted earth. Source: Lansing State Journal (8/22)

Even sewers affected by Great Lakes compact
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An interstate compact that bans large-scale water diversions from the Great Lakes basin has complicated the design of a storm-sewer separation system for South Bend, Ind. Source: South Bend Tribune (8/21)

The graves of Thunder Bay
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A first-time diver is introduced to the wonder of some of the 200 shipwrecks that litter the bottom of Lake Huron's Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary. Source: Detroit Free Press (8/20)

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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."