GLIN: [dailynews] 6 October 2010

On 10/6/2010 6:38 PM, Daily News wrote:

Great Lakes Daily News: October 6, 2010
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Panel wants options for raising Great Lakes levels
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The U.S. and Canadian board that oversees Great Lakes issues has rejected a recommendation from a group of scientists to just learn to live with artificially low water levels caused by dredging on the St. Clair River near Detroit. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (10/6)


Funding for county river project swells to $7.2 million
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Wisconsin's Ozaukee County Board on Wednesday was expected to accept an additional $2 million in federal funding for what has become one of the largest and most ambitious river restoration projects of its kind in the state. Source: Ozaukee Press (10/6)


Enbridge to replace entire pipeline under Lake St Clair per Congresswoman Miller
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At the urging of Michigan's Congresswoman Candice Miller in the hearings which were scheduled before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Enbridge has announced a plan to replace the entire length of pipe running under the St. Clair River beginning in early 2011. Source: Examiner.com (10/6)


For those near, the miserable hum of clean energy
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Lawsuits and complaints about wind turbine noise, vibrations and subsequent lost property value have cropped up in Illinois, Texas, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Massachusetts, among other states. Source: The New York Times (10/6)


Water budgeting must start soon, speaker says
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Most of the United States could face water shortages within the next decade as groundwater pumping and bottled water operations pinch the nation's supply. Source: Superior Telegram (10/6)


Coast Guard investigates Cheboygan oil spill
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U.S. Coast Guard investigators are trying to determine the source of an oil spill that soiled a Lake Huron beach at Cheboygan State Park in Cheboygan, Mich. Source: Chicago Tribune (10/6)


EDITORIAL: Nuclear-waste fears are just hysteria
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"Hysteria" appears to be the only suitable term for the ill-informed opposition to plans to send 16 worn-out steam generators from an Ontario nuclear plant off by ship to Sweden, via the St. Lawrence Seaway, for recycling. Source: The Montreal Gazette (10/6)


Study seeks silver lining in climate change's clouds
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As the global environment warms through the course of this century, the Canadian climate will change in both bad and good ways, according to a new publication from the National Roundtable on the Environment and the Economy and the Royal Canadian Geographic Society. Source: The Globe and Mail (10/5)


Fuel to be drained from grounded tug off Glencoe
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A tugboat that ran aground on rocks about 100 yards off the Lake Michigan coast of north suburban Glencoe, Ill., on Saturday is no longer leaking fuel, but about 2,000 gallons must be removed from the vessel, officials said. Source: Chicago Breaking News (10/5)

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