[dailynews] February 23, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: February 23, 2011
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Manzo sinks deep-water port idea
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Forget all that talk about a deep-water port, Sault Ste. Marie. You're not 
getting one. Not now. Not ever. But you just might get a garden-variety 
port, if the City of Sault Ste. Marie gets its way. Source: SooToday.com 
(2/23)


How Great Lakes states stack up in powerplant CO2 emissions
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Four Great Lakes states rank in the top ten-for 2010 power plant carbon 
dioxide emissions. Source: Great Lakes Echo (2/23)


Lake Michigan level dropping
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The water level of Lake Michigan has dropped another two inches in the last 
month.  The lake level is down a whopping 13 inches in the past year and is 
now 21 inches below the century average level and only 7 inches above the 
century record low level set in 1964. Source: WOOD-TV - Grand Rapids, MI 
(2/23)


Ind. DNR to mass tag hatchery-raised chinook this spring
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A program designed to improve the restoration and management of Great Lakes 
fish communities is coming to Indiana this spring, the Indiana Department of 
Natural Resources said. Source: Chesterton Tribune (2/22)


Ore shipments up in January
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Iron ore shipments on the Great Lakes totaled 3,045,269 net tons in January, 
an increase of more than 60 percent compared to a year ago. Source: 
WDIO-TV - Duluth, MN (2/22)


Emmet County, Mich. courts National Parks exhibit
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In the months leading up to the opening battle of the French and Indian War 
in 1754, a group of Odawa warriors traveled on foot and by birch bark canoe 
almost 500 miles to Pennsylvania to join the effort to stop the advance of 
the British soldiers. Source: Petoskey News-Review (2/22)


Industrial boilers & new report on oil and gas pipelines
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency appears to have missed yesterday's 
court-ordered deadline to issue a new rule regulating industrial boilers. 
Source: The Environment Report (2/22)


'The feds aren't moving fast enough': Rep. Dave Camp accuses federal 
government of 'dragging its feet' to prevent invasion of Asian carp into the 
Great Lakes
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Days after a plea to pull funding to operate the Chicago locks failed in the 
U.S. House, Rep. Dave Camp vowed to ask Congress to permanently separate the 
Chicago River from Lake Michigan. Source: The Saginaw News (2/22)


$3 million budget cut could sting sea lamprey control program
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The Great Lakes sea lamprey control program might be one of the great 
conservation success stories of the past half-century, but now cuts are 
planned for the agency that is charged with killing the bloodsucking 
parasites. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2/22)


Asian carp threat a focus of Patty Birkholz, director of Michigan's Office 
of Great Lakes
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As director of the state Office of the Great Lakes, Patty Birkholz can't 
help but focus on the destructive threat of Asian carp. Source: The Grand 
Rapids Press (2/22)


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