GLIN NEWS: 07 March 2008

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> Great Lakes Daily News: 07 March 2008
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> Snowmelt helps refill parched Great Lakes
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> The melt from one of the snowiest winters in years around the Great
> Lakes is expected to boost water levels. Source: Detroit Free Press (3/7)
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> 'Government has broken its own law' on species protection
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> The Canadian government is moving so slowly to protect disappearing
> plant and animal species that it is in violation of its own
> environmental laws, said a report released yesterday by the federal
> Environment Commissioner. Source: The Globe and Mail (3/7)
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> Great Lakes Compact could threaten industrial expansion
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> The Compact could endanger a proposed $6 billion expansion of Lake
> Superior's Murphy Oil Refinery. Source: WDIO-TV - Duluth (3/7)
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> Poaching penalties going up
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> Anglers who poach three species of Lake Erie fish will face harsher
> financial penalties this year. Source: The Port Clinton News-Herald (3/7)
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> Botulism cause to worry over Michigan's loons
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> The disease knocked out about 2,000 loons last summer. They were found
> scattered on northern Lake Michigan beaches. Source: The Grand Rapids
> Press (3/7)
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> Wisconsin Senate approves Great Lakes Compact
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> Wisconsin's state Senate passed the Great Lakes Compact Thursday, but
> it nevertheless appears doomed in the Wisconsin Legislature. Source:
> The Associated Press (3/6)
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> Sen. Clinton supports Great Lakes restoration
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> Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Wednesday called on the Senate Budget
> Committee to reject President Bush's proposed budget cuts in programs
> to restore the Great Lakes. Source: The Buffalo News (3/6)
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> EDITORIAL: Protect our lakes from invaders
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> To protect Wisconsin's waterways, the state ought to join its
> neighbors in regulating ballast-water discharges from ships on the
> Great Lakes. Source: Wisconsin State Journal (3/6)
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