GLIN: [dailynews] 13 September 2010

On 9/13/2010 12:58 PM, GLIN Daily News wrote:

Great Lakes Daily News: September 13, 2010
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Tough times for Great Lakes shipping
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There was a time when more than 300 U.S. flagged freighters plied the Great Lakes, and ships lined up in the Buffalo Harbor. Now the sight of a ship is increasingly rare. Source: Buffalo News (9/13)


Testimony ends in Great Lakes carp case
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Testimony is over in a potentially far-reaching federal lawsuit seeking to close two Illinois shipping locks to thwart the invasive Asian carp. Source: Oshkosh Northwestern (9/13)


Study: U.S. offshore wind capacity exceeds total U.S. electricity generation
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The electricity generating potential of offshore wind resources in the U.S. is 4,150 gigawatts (GW) based on offshore resources from 26 coastal states and the Great Lakes, according to the latest report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Source: Environmental Leader (9/13)


Fate of historic warship built near Windsor playing out in U.S. courts
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Thursday's court hearing before U.S. District Judge Richard Arcara followed a state magistrate's ruling in May that the wreck should be left preserved on the lake bottom - the position held by state legal and archeological officials. Source: Windsor Star (9/13)


Cornwall City Council asked to support river plan
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City council is being asked to put its weight behind a new environmental management plan for the St. Lawrence River as a trade-off for "delisting" the river as one of the most degraded areas in the Great Lakes basin. Source: Standard Freeholder (9/13)


Canada losing water at 'troublesome' rate
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Canada's renewable fresh water supply is shrinking, according to a new report which says the southern half of the country lost enough water to fill 1.4 million Olympic-sized swimming pools over the past three decades. Source: CTV Toronto (9/13)


Oil spill refocuses attention on Kalamazoo River pollution
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The July spill cast a national spotlight on the river. Yet little attention was given to the PCBs that have plagued the river for decades.
Now the EPA's chief administrator for the region says the spill provides an opportunity to refocus efforts on removal of the PCBs, which are located on a stretch of the river nearly three times as long as the spill zone. Source: Kalamazoo Gazette (9/12)


Daley: Let's look at reversing flow of Chicago River back into Lake Michigan
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Mayor Richard Daley today floated the idea of undoing Chicago's greatest engineering feat --- reversing the flow of the Chicago River away from Lake Michigan --- to improve the ecology of the Great Lakes. Source: Chicago Tribune (9/10)


Tourist cash to cruise into Michigan
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After a three-year absence, the 423-passenger MS Columbus ocean liner plans to return to the Great Lakes for two cruises in September 2011 -- one from Toronto to Chicago and a return voyage to Toronto. Source: Detroit News (9/10)


Camp: Push Israel to drop carp tariff
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Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter late today directed at U.S. Trade Ambassador Ron Kirk asking him to work with Israel to drop its recently imposed tariff on imported Asian carp, which is adding 15 percent to 20 percent to the cost of the imported fish. Source: Detroit News (9/9)


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