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Great Lakes Daily News: 01 September 2006
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Canada to curb trash dumping in Michigan
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A deal with Ontario to end the shipment of municipal garbage to Michigan by 2010 may signal the end to a 15-year drama over Canadian trash. Source: The Detroit News (9/1)


Public comment period extended on live-fire zones
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The U.S. Coast Guard has extended the public comment period on a controversial plan to establish live-fire zones on the Great Lakes where crews can take target practice. Source: Detroit Free Press (9/1)


EDITORIAL: Find funds to get to bottom of lake levels
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Congress should restore a funding provision for research to determine the causes of dropping water levels on the Great Lakes. Source: Detroit Free Press (9/1)


On the St. Lawrence and on the way back
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A cleaner St. Lawrence River is providing a boon for upstate New York and has become a big attraction for kayakers, powerboaters and canoeists. Source: The New York Times (9/1)


Could bills lead way to oil drilling in the Great Lakes?
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With gasoline prices recently cresting at $3 a gallon, environmentalists worry that the offshore bottomlands of the Great Lakes will no longer be off limits to oil and gas exploration. Source: The Oakland Press (9/1)


Isle Royale: island wilderness
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Designated a wilderness area in 1976, Isle Royale National Park remains a bastion of wild isolation unlike anyplace else in the Midwest. Source: Manitowoc Herald Times (9/1)


Wisconsin mute swans are safe until January
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Wisconsin has shelved plans to shoot non-native mute swans on a pair of lakes until at least January, when the Natural Resource Board can take up the issue. Source: Duluth News Tribune (9/1)


NYDEC takes over cleanup of historic site
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New York state regulators will take over cleanup work at the site of a historic fort on the St. Lawrence River after terminating an agreement with ExxonMobil Corp. to remove a century's worth of petroleum contamination. Source: Newsday (9/1)


Safety equipment slow to appear on waterfronts
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Concerns over vandalism and theft have resulated in a situation where few Michigan communities dotting the St. Clair River and adjacent Lake Huron waterfront have life-saving devices available on their beaches or riverbanks. Source: Port Huron Times-Herald (8/31)


Big Rock: Nuke era ends
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With cheers and booming fireworks, supporters of the former Big Rock Point Nuclear Power Plant on Tuesday celebrated the finished cleanup of the grounds it occupied by the Lake Michigan shore. Source: Traverse City Record-Eagle (8/30)


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