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The next "green hope" to replace oil was biofuels, ethanol blended with gasoline, and vegetable oil blended with diesel (biodiesel). But even initially enthusiastic environmental groups have realized the folly of trying to farm our way off oil. More...
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This week's warmer weather has been well timed, helping to rid the St. Clair River of ice just as Great Lakes shippers prepare to start their season. More...
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The MeterSave program offers a seven-year guarantee to Chicagoans who volunteer for a meter that their water bill will not exceed the rate they would have paid otherwise. More...
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AgriMarine Holdings has joined forces with the Serpent River First Nation in an attempt to introduce its proprietary closed-containment fish-farming technology to Ontario. More...
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The MeterSave program offers a seven-year guarantee to Chicagoans who volunteer for a meter that their water bill will not exceed the rate they would have paid otherwise. More...
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Wisconsin's reactors among 104 in U.S. getting safety checks
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Nuclear power companies and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission will review the safety of the 104 reactors operating in the United States, including three along Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. More... -
AgriMarine Holdings has joined forces with the Serpent River First Nation in an attempt to introduce its proprietary closed-containment fish-farming technology to Ontario. More...
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Bayham is seeking permission to dredge the harbour at Port Burwell as it weighs whether to get into the dredging business itself. Either way, Project Ojibwa, to bring a decommissioned Canadian submarine of that name to the Lake Erie harbour as a new tourist attraction, is expected to benefit. More...
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A Canadian environmental group on Friday urged regulators to delay hearings related to the construction of new nuclear reactors at an Ontario nuclear power plant. More...
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Great Lakes shipping companies say their industry would be hit hard by an Obama administration proposal to cut funding by one-third for dredging the region's ports and waterways. More...
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Researchers say they found more cases of the fish killing virus VHS in the Great Lakes last year. But they did not find any big fish kills from the disease. Mike Simonson reports from Superior. More...
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A demineralized water leak at Pickering nuclear power plant contained "negligible radiation" and poses little risk, Ontario Power Generation said on Wednesday. More...
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Severe earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and now Japan have experts around the world asking whether the world's tectonic plates are becoming more active -- and what could be causing it. More...
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Smugglers keep hauling live Asian carp from Southern fish farms bound for food markets in the Lake Ontario city of Toronto, even as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers studies how to keep the fish from swimming into the Great Lakes through the back door - the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. More...
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Local maritime traffic through the Port of Duluth-Superior is set to commence March 17 with the scheduled afternoon departure of the season's first laker, the James R. Barker. This is the third consecutive year that the Barker has been the first outbound vessel; she departed last year on March 20. More...
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Chatham-Kent's mayor wants more answers about a plan to ship decommissioned nuclear generators through the Great Lakes. More...
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Ontario's government stood behind its nuclear power plants on Tuesday, saying it has no plans to back down from a planned expansion to one of its facilities. More...
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Lambton Shores is gearing up for another summer with the invasive phragmites australis. The invasive Common Reed, found throughout Port Franks and area, creates tall, dense stands of grass which degrade coastal areas and wetlands. More...
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The Department of Natural Resources reminds the public that certain fishing opportunities for tribal members of tribal governments located within the 1836 Treaty of Washington and 1842 Treaty of La Point are different than those allowed for state-licensed recreational anglers under Michigan law. More...
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The oil and gas industry's early forays into developing a shale-gas industry could have been handled better, former Quèbec premier Lucien Bouchard said on Monday. More...
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Registration is now open for the 2011 Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Annual Meeting and Conference: the Power of Shared Waters. The conference takes place in Niagara Falls, Ont., June 15-17, 2011. More...
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Amid all the horrific reports and video coming from Japan after the massive earthquake a few days ago, some of us have wondered, "What about here? Could we see a devastating earthquake in the U.P.?" More...
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The Detroit River shoreline has miles of steel sheet pilings, concrete break walls and cement used to deepen the river and increase flow for safety, navigation and industry. More...
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The federal government's recent agreement to stiffen pollution regulations on Great Lakes freighters is a step in the right direction. Better, though, would be a faster pace toward the goal of stopping invasive species from entering the lakes. More...
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Legislation introduced at the state Capitol would relax rules aimed at replacing wetlands lost to development in northern Minnesota in an effort to make it easier for proposed mining projects. More...