GLIN NEWS: 24 April 2008

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> Great Lakes Daily News: 24 April 2008
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> Bush threatens to veto rules on ships' ballast water
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> The House is expected to vote today on a bill that would put in place
> stricter rules on ships' ballast water, a measure environmentalists
> say is needed to keep more invasive species from coming into the Great
> Lakes. Source: Detroit Free Press (4/24)
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> Builders urged to give Great Lakes some space
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> People are building homes and cottages too close to Lake Ontario and
> the other Great Lakes, environmentalists say. Source: The Toronto Star
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> Great Lakes security checks scrapped
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> Big Brother won't be breathing down the necks of charter fishing boat
> captains on Lake Erie. Source: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (4/24)
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> Lakes' pact gets support from Toledo mayor and Fisher
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> Toledo Mayor Carty Finkbeiner and Ohio Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher yesterday
> threw their weight behind the most comprehensive legislation the Great
> Lakes region has considered to defend itself from outsiders trying to
> get water from the lakes. Source: The Toledo Blade (4/24)
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> Ballast water vote expected
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> The U.S. House of Representatives appears close to finding a
> compromise on a ballast water law intended to prevent the Great Lakes
> from the sustained onslaught of freighter-borne invasive species.
> Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (4/24)
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> Wind farms proposed on water
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> Three developers are floating plans to erect hundreds of wind turbines
> in Lake Michigan as interest in the construction of wind farms surges
> around the country. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (4/24)
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> Ont. opposes plan for regulating levels of Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence
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> Ontario has joined environmental groups and New York state officials
> in opposing a plan that would change how the water levels and flow of
> Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River are regulated. Source: The
> Canadian Press (4/24)
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> Parched U.S. states could start 'water wars' and seek Great Lakes
> water: experts
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> Parched U.S. states could start "water wars" in the years ahead and
> fight for access to Great Lakes resources as they become more
> desperate to meet growing needs, Canadian and American experts said
> Wednesday at a water conference. Source: The Canadian Press (4/23)
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> Great Lakes Compact vote expected next week
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> Don't look for state legislative action this week on the Great Lakes
> water protection agreement. Source: New Richmond News (4/23)
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> Great Lakes under microscope
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>> From its vantage point on the shoreline in Cleveland, the Great Lakes
> Science Center has an expansive view of Lake Erie with the waters of
> this Great Lake extending off to a seemingly unlimited horizon.
> Source: The Cincinnati Enquirer (4/20)
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