GLIN NEWS: 16 June 2009

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Great Lakes Daily News: 16 June 2009

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COMMENTARY: Tending the northern border

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Despite the fact that the U.S. is Canada's largest trading partner and vice versa, northern border crossing conditions have sometimes been given short shrift. Suggestions have been raised on both sides of the border to improve passenger and trade flows between the two countries. Source: Milwaukee Biz Blog (6/16)





EDITORIAL: Carferry should speed up plans to stop dumping in Lake Michigan

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The Lake Michigan Carferry company, which operates the coal-fired, cross-lake ferry S.S. Badger between Ludington and Manitowoc, Wis., should act quickly to end its practice of dumping coal ash into Lake Michigan. Source: Muskegon Chronicle (6/16)





Recall raises questions: U.S. Steel production limited to south of border

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US Steel, the Pittsburgh steel giant, is recalling 800 workers and restarting its coke ovens in Hamilton. But it has no immediate plans to make steel in Canada or to call back nearly 800 laid off workers in Nanticoke. Source: The Hamilton Spectator (6/16)





New era in sewage treatment arrives

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Nipigon and Red Rock are to stop being the little-known scourges of the Great Lakes following overdue upgrades to their sewage treatment plants. Source: The Thunder Bay Chronicle-Journal (6/16)





Not one, but two kinds of males found in the invasive round goby

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Scientists have found the existence of two types of round goby males, a fiercely invasive fish spreading through the Great Lakes, which may provide answers as to how they rapidly reproduce. Source: Science Daily (6/15)





Gray wolves of the western Great Lakes back in court

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Five wildlife protection groups have filed legal action challenging the removal of Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the western Great Lakes region and asking the federal District Court to issue an immediate injunction to stop the killing of wolves pending resolution of the case. Source:  Environment News Service (6/15)





Turning Michigan manufacturers into wind suppliers

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On Wednesday, June 17 in Troy, MI local metalcutting companies will be gaining real-world technical and financial resource knowledge that will allow them to make an intelligent decision about their ability to diversify out of automotive manufacturing and enter into the wind energy sector. Source:  WWJ Newsradio 950, Detroit (6/15)





EPA downplays dredging risk to Bay City, MI water supply

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Nearly a month after the onset of a navigational dredging project in the Saginaw River that some worry will send dioxin-contaminated sediments downstream toward the intakes for Bay City's water supply, EPA officials responded to citizen concerns by announcing it would not test the water for the toxin. Source: The Michigan Messenger (6/15)





Quagga mussels overtaking zebra mussels in Great Lakes

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Research done by a University of Wisconsin-Madison doctoral candidate showed the quagga mussel to have become the dominant of the two species in the calm waters of the Great Lakes while the zebra mussel covers the bottoms of faster-moving waters in rivers and streams. Source: Madison Capital Times (6/13)





Obama launches ocean protection plan

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President Obama set up a task force led by chief White House environmental adviser Nancy Sutley to recommend a national policy to protect and restore "the health of ocean coastal and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources" within 90 days. Source: Reuters (6/12)

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