[dailynews] November 2, 2011

Great Lakes Daily News: November 2, 2011
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Slaughter stresses Great Lakes funding
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Congresswoman Louise Slaughter, D-Fairport, on Tuesday urged colleagues to sustain funding for conservation initiatives along the Great Lakes. Source: Tonawanda News (11/2)


Collapsed bluff got pass from state regulators
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State environment regulators gave We Energies a pass in 2008 - exempting it from certain rules so that construction work could be done atop coal ash landfills on a bluff on the Lake Michigan shoreline at the utility's Oak Creek Power Plant, officials said Tuesday. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (11/2)


Bad river pursues air quality standards
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The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is planning to set their own air quality standards, which could be used against a proposed iron ore mine. Source: Ashland Current (11/1)


Coal ash spills into Lake Michigan after bluff collapse
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A cascade of coal ash, dirt and mud fell into the shore of Lake Michigan yesterday after a large section of bluff collapsed beside the We Energies Oak Creek Power Plant in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin. Source: Iwatch News (11/1)


Progress made at 2 toxic hot spots in Michigan
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fficials reported progress Tuesday toward cleaning up two toxic hot spots in Michigan that have spent decades on a list of the most polluted sites in the Great Lakes region. Source: Chicago Tribune (11/1)


Oceana County planners emphatic: No wind turbines on Lake Michigan
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An attack by the Oceana County Planning Commission on an offshore wind farm developer can be seen as a pre-emptive strike, even if it came well after the issue seemed settled. Source: MLive.com (11/1)


Federal judge rejects proposed settlement for Saugatuck Dunes
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A federal judge has thrown out a proposed legal settlement between Saugatuck Township and a private developer looking to build near Lake Michigan coastal dunes. Source: Michigan Radio (11/1)


Asian carp, an "alien" threat to Lake Erie
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In the WVIZ/PBS program, Attack of the Alien Invaders, Dante Centuori, Director of Creative Productions at the Great Lakes Science Center in Cleveland, Ohio, traveled in and around Lake Erie visiting with scientists and government officials who are investigating Lake Erie's ecosystem, the challenges it has faced in the past, as well as those it may face in the future. Source: Quest (11/1)


Inland sea birds appearing in abundance, make Lake Erie seem like an ocean: Aerial View
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Sea birds were all the rage last week in Northeast Ohio. Lake Erie is connected to the East Coast via Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence Seaway, and sea birds migrating Eastward are programmed to follow this route in the fall. Source: cleveland.com (11/1)


Hydro wind measuring devices still all at sea
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Toronto Hydro's wind measuring efforts off the Scarborough Bluffs are going nowhere - for now. Councillors on the executive committee voted Tuesday to let hydro leave its more than $1 million anemometer - a fridge-size device that measures wind speed and direction - in Lake Ontario until the fall of 2012. Source: Toronto Sun (11/1)


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