GLIN NEWS: 09 April 2008

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> Great Lakes Daily News: 09 April 2008
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> Scientists call foreign mussels worst of all Great Lakes' exotics
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> Two decades after zebra mussels were discovered in the Great Lakes,
> some scientists are calling the foreign mollusks the most harmful
> exotic species ever to invade the world's largest freshwater
> ecosystem. Source: Muskegon Chronicle (4/9)
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> Critics: Politics is hiding CDC report detailing deadly effects of
> pollution
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> The Center for Disease Control and Prevention compiled health and
> environmental data from 26 area of concern in the U.S. The resulting
> report has been withheld since July. Source: The Grand Rapids Press (4/9)
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> COMMENTARY: National view: Restoring the Clean Water Act
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> Unless we act now, waters across the upper Midwest will not be
> protected by the Clean Water Act from sewage discharges, industrial
> pollution and other pollution. Source: Duluth News Tribune (4/9)
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> Level of radioactive tritium in test well declines at nuclear plant
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> The level of radioactive tritium found in a monitoring well near the
> Palisades Nuclear Power Plant on the shore of Lake Michigan has
> dropped significantly since it was discovered in December, a Palisades
> representative told the Van Buren County Board of Commissioners
> Tuesday. Source: Kalamazoo Gazette (4/9)
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> WI DNR proposes stricter new rules to regulate invasive species
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> The monk parrot is one of dozens of animals and plants the Department
> of Natural Resources is hoping to regulate more strictly under new
> invasive species rules that will go before the Natural Resources Board
> for approval this spring and then to the State Legislature later this
> year. Source: Wisconsin State Journal (4/9)
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> City water plan disputed
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> When city officials announced an ambitious, $200-million plan to use
> ozone to disinfect the waste water dumped into the St. Lawrence River,
> they said the project would make Montreal a leader in the field of
> waste-water disinfection. Source: The Montreal Gazette (4/9)
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> Hovercraft transit firm makes bid to revive Toronto-Rochester ferry
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> A Toronto company that for the last five years has been trying to
> build a Hovercraft service on Lake Ontario is now trying to revive the
> Toronto-Rochester ferry. Source: The Globe and Mail (4/9)
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> Possible breakthrough on Great Lakes compact
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> Gov. Jim Doyle plans to make a "major announcement" today regarding
> the Great Lakes Compact that has been stalled in the Legislature under
> opposition from Assembly Republicans. Source: Wisconsin State Journal
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> Huron, Erie almost tied; Many factors play into dropping levels: study
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> A century ago, Lake Huron was nearly ten feet higher than Lake Erie.
> Today that difference has fallen by almost half. What gives? Source:
> The Sarnia Observer (4/8)
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> MNR aims to boost Lake Erie trout numbers
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> The Norfolk-Haldimand shoreline is the focus of an ambitious plan to
> restore the lake trout population of Lake Erie. Source: The London
> Free Press (4/8)
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