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Ontario: Leamington council plans to ask Kingsville to join it in hiring a consultant to object to offshore wind turbines proposed for Lake Erie. More...
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Wind power can provide a windfall, both for the landowners who allow wind turbines to be erected on their land and for the local governments that host wind farms. However, the potential of wind power brings the risk of pitfalls that landowners should take care to avoid. More...
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Michigan NRC revises order to prevent spread of fish disease
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The Michigan Natural Resources Commission (NRC) has approved updates to a fish disease control order aimed at preventing the spread of viral hemorrhagic septicemia (VHS) and other diseases in Michigan's inland lakes fisheries. More... -
More than a dozen ships have dropped anchor in the St. Lawrence Seaway after a faulty cable on a lift bridge left the span in the down position for the past several days, Canadian authorities say. More...
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The mission of Freshwater Future is to foster and support a vital, effective grassroots sector working locally to protect aquatic habitats throughout the Great Lakes Basin. More...
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The Regional Development Authority has given the initial go-ahead to Hammond's $31.4 million improvement plan for Wolf Lake, George Lake and Lake Michigan. The project looks to open up access to lakes, connect trail systems, and construct an outdoor amphitheater. More...
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The possible return of a cormorant cull at Presqu'ile Provincial Park has once again aroused strong emotions on both sides of the issue. The public has until Dec. 29 to respond to a proposed project to manage cormorant populations on Gull and High Bluff Islands. More...
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Chris Kolb, a former state representative from Ann Arbor, will become the next president of the Michigan Environmental Council. Climate change, protection of the Great Lakes and promotion of clean energy are issues at the top of the current environmental agenda. More...
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The Regional Development Authority has given the initial go-ahead to Hammond's $31.4 million improvement plan for Wolf Lake, George Lake and Lake Michigan. Among other things, the project looks to open up access to lakes, connect trail systems, and construct a permanent outdoor amphitheater at Wolf Lake. More...
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5,000 households are getting all of their power from renewable energy - from water being pushed through two, and eventually three, turbines in the Welland Canal. Until now, that water did little more than cascade and bubble on the way from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. More...
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The possible return of a cormorant cull at Presqu'ile Provincial Park has once again aroused strong emotions on both sides of the issue. The Ministry of Natural Resources has given the public until Dec. 29 to respond to a proposed project that would manage cormorant populations on Gull and High Bluff Islands. More...
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Chris Kolb, a former state representative from Ann Arbor, will become the next president of the Michigan Environmental Council. Kolb noted that climate change, protection of the Great Lakes and promotion of clean energy are issues at the top of the current environmental agenda. More...
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A bevy of birds and waves of nasty weather kicked off the opening week of Christmas Bird Counts in Northeast Ohio. With so many birders in the field, good sightings could be expected, even with the predictable rainy, gray and frigid conditions of mid-December. More...
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As the economy heads further down into recession, the calls from politicians to spend more on infrastructure heats up. Just this past week, Toronto City Council passed its $1.6 billion 2009 capital budget that Mayor David Miller called a job creation strategy, worth 35,000 jobs. More...
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If last week had been anything close to normal, America's great muckraking newspapers - what few of them we have left - would have led their front pages with stories about how 189 countries had delegates in Poland for the biggest event devoted to Earth's most pressing environmental issue: climate change. More...
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The Boardman River Dams Committee looked at various options for the Union Street, Sabin, Boardman, and Brown Bridge dams and next week will finalize a recommendation to Traverse City and Grand Traverse County officials. The draft recommendation is to remove Sabin and Brown Bridge dams and modify the others. More...
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Traffic is grinding to a halt on the St. Lawrence Seaway because of a problem with a bridge in Valleyfield, Quebec. As many as a dozen ships will have to drop anchor between Massena and Lake Ontario while repairs are made to that bridge. It's is unknown how long those repairs will take. More...
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The Lake Superior Energy Association (LSEA) promotes renewable energy and energy efficiency with the goal towards sustainable living in the western Lake Superior region. More...
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Radioactive tritium still may be leaking at the Palisades nuclear power plant, as monitoring has revealed there still is measurable tritium in one test well. Tritium is a weakly radioactive form of hydrogen that can combine with oxygen to form a type of water. More...
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A proposal to designate 11,739 acres of Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore as wilderness won't make it through Congress this year. Michigan Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow sponsored legislation to establish the Beaver Basin Wilderness. More...
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Warning that Minnesota could lose 21,000 jobs and pay higher electricity costs by 2015, a group of business organizations and utilities announced Thursday that it will oppose a cap-and-trade system designed to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions. More...
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Tapping wind energy in Lake County is not a quixotic pipe dream. Lake County officials say that some private companies are interested in building a wind farm in the county, which could provide alternative power for consumers and reduce electrical energy costs. More...
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The GLOS HarborView pilot project features an integrated, web-based viewer showcasing data on nearshore currents, winds, waves and prevailing weather for a subset of the over 200 harbors along the Great Lakes. The project is designed to enhance commercial and recreational navigation on the Great Lakes. More...
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Disagreement with Feds may close Wisconsin ports to shipping
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A disagreement between Wisconsin and the federal government over how to regulate ballast water has left Great Lakes ship owners facing possible legal action if they enter Badger State ports after Dec. 19. More... -
Members of the Great Lakes maritime community are again making their case for building a new lock in Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. And this time around, they're touting not only the need for an additional lock but the jobs it would create. More...