[dailynews] September 14, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: September 14, 2011
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Canada Lines ships to bring jobs and 'new level of operational efficiency'
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Canada Steamship Lines is speeding up its Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway fleet-renewal program by exercising an option for two new selfunloading bulk carriers to be built by China's Chengxi Shipyard. Source: The Montreal Gazette (9/14)


Officials, organizations team up to reduce agriculture runoff into Lake Huron
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A group interested in protecting the Lake Huron's water quality is providing funds to farmers to reduce the draining of sediment, fertilizers and other soil pollutants into the lake. Source: Great Lakes Echo (9/14)


Hydropower project advances
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A Michigan company has been granted a preliminary permit for development of a hydropower project in the St. Clair River near the Blue Water Bridge. Source: The Times Herald (9/14)


Fishing for water-quality clues
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Pollution played a role in nearly wiping out the lower Genesee's sturgeon population, and now the prehistoric-looking fish may help researchers track the river's health over the next century. Source: Rochester City Newspaper (9/14)


Wis. AG to testify on Asian Carp
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J.B. Van Hollen, Wisconsin's attorney general, is scheduled to testify on the invasive Asian carp in front of the Assembly Natural Resources Committee on Wednesday morning. Source: WISC Madison (9/14)


Otsego City Dam on Kalamazoo River targeted for removal
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Several proposed plans are in place that outline how to remove one of five structures, once used to raise water levels to ease shipping or to power paper mills long since shuttered, along the Kalamazoo River. Source: Kalamazoo Gazette (9/14)


New lakefront preserve opens
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Openlands, a Chicago-area metropolitan conservation organizations, saves 77 acres of lake frontage from private development. Source: Highland Park Patch (9/14)


NERR offers kayaking cook-out
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The Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve (Lake Superior NERR)  announces their first community event,  a Kayaking Cook Out on Barker's Island, Wisc., to celebrate National Estuaries Day on September 24. Source: Superior Telegram (9/14)


Great Lakes ship to cruise Apostle Islands next year
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An adventure travel company, Adventure Life, is unveiling a series of new Great Lakes cruise options for next year that include viewing the Lake Superior south shore and the Apostle Islands. Source: Ashland Current (9/13)


Toxic pollution a worry in Indiana canal
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High levels of a toxic chemical have been found in sediment in a canal in Indiana, researchers say, a concern because it is scheduled for dredging in 2012. Source: United Press International (9/9)


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