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Great Lakes News: 10 May 2004
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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COMMENTARY: Toronto trash crisis won't go away
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Toronto residents should be very worried about the prospect of the border
being closed to garbage exports and need to be working on a contingency
plan. Source: The Toronto Star (5/10)


Ontario's call for renewable energy production expected to be first of many
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For the first time, Ontario is calling on private energy producers to put
forward bids to build a renewable energy supply, as the province aims to
reach its clean energy targets. Source: CBC News (5/10)


Gov. Doyle considers lake water withdrawals
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The next chairperson of the Council of Great Lakes Governors says he might
support some limited diversion of water from the lakes. Source: Great Lakes
Radio Consortium (5/10)


OPINION: Panel provides blueprint for healthier oceans
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The first major federal assessment of ocean health in a generation, which
also addresses the Great Lakes, provides a blueprint for action too long
deferred on a problem too long ignored. Source: St. Paul Pioneer Press
(5/10)


Expert says cicadas will be here soon
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Periodical cicadas are expected to begin emerging this week from the holes
in the ground where they have been living for 17 years. Source: WTHR
Indianapolis (5/10)


Tiny frogs find new home at UR
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Western chorus frogs, an at-risk species, have successfully leaped from
their old habitat, now under a University of Rochester laser lab, to a new
one created for them less than 100 yards away. Source: Rochester Democrat
and Chronicle (5/10)


Training ship to take 2-week cruise
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The Great Lakes Maritime Academy's training ship, The State of Michigan, is
set to head out on a 2-week, 1,500-mile cruise through the Great Lakes.
Source: Detroit Free Press (5/10)


Babysitting spawning sturgeon
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Each spring, several hundred people stand guard over masses of lake sturgeon
during their spawning season, when the big fish float near the surface of
the water and are particularly vulnerable to poachers. Source: Great Lakes
Radio Consortium (5/10)


Regulatory agency cites Ohio nuke plant
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The Nuclear Regulatory Commission says an energy company provided false
information about a potential danger at a nuclear plant six years ago, but
the agency waived a potential $55,000 fine. Source: WXYZ-TV Detroit (5/9)


North Kingsville sand barrens
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A 116-acre wilderness known as the sand barrens, which harbors a rare
ecosystem, now belongs to the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. Source:
The Star Beacon (5/9)

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