GLIN NEWS: 15 June 2009

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Great Lakes Daily News: 15 June 2009

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U. S., Canada agree to update pact on water quality

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The United States and Canada vowed Saturday to update a key agreement to guard the Great Lakes from invasive species, new chemicals, the impact of climate change and any other potential threats. Source: The Buffalo News (6/15)





Tainted Cuyahoga River sees sporadic return of recreation

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While a work in progress (we're still reminded not to eat too many fish and not to ingest any water if we fall in), the return of recreation on the Cuyahoga has people excited. Source: The Plain Dealer (6/15)





Owen Sound gets $30 million for sewage

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The City of Owen Sound will receive $30 million in federal-provincial funding to upgrade its sewage treatment plant, MP Larry Miller announced this morning on the steps of city hall.  Source: Owen Sound Sun Times (6/15)





Work to begin on what could become major overhaul of Soo Locks

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It's been 23 years since Congress realized another big lock was needed along the St. Marys River at Sault Ste. Marie to protect Great Lakes shipping. Later this month, it will finally get under way. Source: Detroit Free Press (6/14)





EDITORIAL: Lakes effort gets a leader

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The Great Lakes now have a czar. Credit President Obama for maintaining a campaign promise to help this region's ecosystem by putting someone in charge of coordinating American efforts to give it a better future. Source: The Buffalo News (6/14)





Lake Superior fish meet contamination risk

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The largest, deepest and coldest Great Lake holds another distinction - the highest levels of the contaminant toxaphene in the region and possibly anywhere in the world. Source: South Bend Tribune (6/14)





COMMENTARY: Great Lakes funds should address silt dredging, dumping

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Officials across the region have complained about open-lake disposal of silt dredged from the Toledo shipping channel since at least the mid-1980s. So have scientists.

Source: The Toledo Blade (6/14)





City, community working to revive Little Manitowoc River wetland

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The same rainstorm that a year ago washed away houses on the shores of Lake Delton, Wis. also left homeless many of the ducks, cranes and fish that frequent the Little Manitowoc River wetland. Source: Manitowoc Herald Times Reporter (6/14)





COMMENTARY: Make Michigan nation's clean energy powerhouse

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Michigan has a proud and powerful history. To write a new chapter in that history, we must reject fear and turn with hope toward a clean energy future. Source: Detroit Free Press (6/14)





More studies of wind farm requested

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Comments on the proposed Galloo Island Wind Farm submitted to the New York Department of Environmental Conservation criticize the project's effects on birds and animals and ask for public access. Source: Watertown Daily Times (6/14)





EPA unveils cleanup plan for Ashland Superfund site

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Twenty years after a vast area of coal tar pollution was discovered on Ashland's Lake Superior waterfront, the Environmental Protection Agency has a plan to clean it up. Source: Duluth News Tribune (6/13)





Ontario leaps before it looks with proposed wind-turbine rules

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This week, the Ontario provincial government entered the fray regarding wind turbines on Wolfe Island, proposing a minimum setback of 550 metres for any turbines, and substantial distances from property lines. Source: The Toronto Star (6/13)





No ocean, but Chicago moves to legalize surfing

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The Windy City is one of America's sports meccas, but can it become Surf City, U.S.A.? Source: Time (6/13)

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