[dailynews] October 3, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: October 3, 2011
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COMMENTARY: Scuttled wind farm project was a billion-dollar boondoogle
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It was pretty clear all along that building a wind farm in the waters of Lake Erie or Lake Ontario would be way too expensive. Source: Buffalo News (10/3)


COMMENTARY: U.S.-Canadian plan for Great Lakes continues to draw fire
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U.S. and Canadian negotiators are putting the finishing touches on the bi-national Great Lakes water quality agreement even as conservation groups continue to grumble that they are being kept in the dark about the details of a document designed to help both countries manage the world's largest freshwater system. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (10/3)


Proposed Michigan legislation would change some landfill restrictions
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If proposed legislation goes through, some landfills would only need one instead of two liners. Source: Kalamazoo Gazette (10/3)


Strike averted at St. Lawrence Seaway as tentative deal reached
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The Canadian Auto Workers union has reached a tentative labor agreement for its members at the St. Lawrence Seaway, averting a strike that could have closed one of North America's major shipping routes. Source: Washington Post (10/3)


Voracious invasive quagga mussels gobbling Great Lakes' food chain
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"Quaggas are causing the biggest changes we've ever seen in Lake Michigan," said Tom Nalepa, a research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory who has studied the lake for more than 30 years. Source: Detroit Free Press (10/2)


Niagara dry docked in Cleveland for repairs
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Shipyard crews at Great Lakes Towing Co. in Cleveland have spent the past several days performing extensive maintenance on Erie's iconic flagship. Source: GoErie.com (10/2)


ARC grant restores fish passage in Lower Rouge River
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As part of the Alliance of Rouge Communities' Wayne Road Dam Removal and Habitat Improvement Project, a $1 million federal grant will be used to remove the Wayne Road Dam, located in the City of Wayne, and restore the fishery in the Lower Rouge River. Source: Observer & Eccentric (10/2)


Chemical-munching mussels contaminating Great Lakes
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Not content with devouring plankton and indigenous species, the mussels are sucking on toxic polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) trapped in the lakes' sediment and releasing the chemicals into the freshwaters, Todd French, a biologist at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario told AFP. Source: AFP (10/1)


On Lake Michigan, a coal-burning steamship gets a pass
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As the last season before the EPA's deadline comes to an end, the owners instead are seeking an exemption from the federal Clean Water Act that would delay a fix until at least 2017. Source: Chicago Tribune (10/1)


Research institute at University of Minnesota Duluth gets study grant
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Scientists at the Natural Resources Research Institute of the University of Minnesota Duluth have received a $2 million grant to study the base of the Great Lakes food chain. Source: Duluth News Tribune (9/30)


Feds, tribes invite public to lake climate exhibit
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A group of American Indian tribes and federal officials are inviting the public to visit a new exhibit on climate change in the Great Lakes in far northern Wisconsin. Source: WLS-TV Chicago (9/29)


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