GLIN NEWS: 08 April 2008

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> Great Lakes Daily News: 08 April 2008
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> Fight brews over Saginaw River dredging spoils site
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> Over the objections of state environmental regulators, local and
> federal officials plan to start pumping Saginaw River mud into a
> dredging spoils site this summer on the Bay-Saginaw county line.
> Source: The Bay City Times (4/8)
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> Great Lakes shippers take steps to halt deadly fish virus spread
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> Great Lakes shippers say they're taking steps to keep a deadly fish
> virus from spreading into Lake Superior through ballast water. Source:
> The Associated Press (4/8)
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> COMMENTARY: Cormorant cull needed
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> Parks Canada's recommendation to reduce cormorant populations to lower
> and healthier levels through periodic culling is the most ecologically
> sound option to ensure long-term persistence of the native ecosystem
> on Middle Island. Source: The Windsor Star (4/8)
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> Michigan City gets $400,000 EPA grant
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> Michigan City will receive $400,000 from the U.S. Environmental
> Protection Agency to clean up two brownfield properties, EPA said
> Monday. Source: Merrillville Post-Tribune (4/8)
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> COMMENTARY: GOP reps pledge support for Great Lakes compact
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> Wisconsin citizens can't afford the consequences of any mistakes in
> legislation as significant as the Great Lakes Compact. Source: Green
> Bay Press-Gazette (4/8)
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> MI DEQ releases dioxin damage-assessment plan
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> The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has released a draft
> of its plan for assessing the environmental damage done by dioxins
> that Dow Chemical Co. dumped for decades. Source: The Associated Press
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> Bait operators complain MNR rule has them on hook
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> A fatal infectious disease in fish is the biggest challenge ever faced
> by a group that represents provincial bait operators. Source: The
> Sault Star (4/7)
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> Phosphorus and its impact on the Bay
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> A research biologist from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
> Administration's Great Lakes Environmental Research Lab Friday
> discussed various sources of phosphorus and the impact it has on water
> quality in Saginaw Bay. Source: Huron Daily Tribune (4/7)
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> So much snow, but little help for lakes
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> Even though Milwaukee was hit by near-historic levels of snow this
> winter, the effect of so much moisture will diminish greatly in the
> months to come. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (4/7)
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> Lakes compact languishes in Ohio
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> The future of the Great Lakes may be decided in Ohio and Wisconsin.
> Source: The Plain Dealer (4/6)
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