[dailynews] January 12, 2012

Great Lakes Daily News: January 12, 2012
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Proposal would raise Michigan's renewable electricity goal to 25% by 2025
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A group wants to amend Michigan's constitution to more than double the 
existing requirement for how much of the state's electricity must come from 
renewable sources by 2025. Source: Detroit Free Press (1/12)


Dimock supporters to take water plea to EPA chief
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Supporters of Dimock Twp. families at odds with a Marcellus Shale driller 
over water contamination plan to take their plea for fresh drinking water to 
the head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Friday. EPA 
Administrator Lisa Jackson is scheduled to participate in a 9:30 a.m. talk 
about urban sustainability at the Academy of Natural Sciences in 
Philadelphia. Source: The Times-Tribune (1/12)


Upper Peninsula lake is quietly becoming ice fishing hotbed
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Lake Gogebic is the Upper Peninsula of Michigan's largest inland lake, which 
in early 2012 was one of the few water bodies in Michigan with safe ice. 
Source: The Grand Rapids Press (1/12)


Nuclear plant promises to improve safety culture
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Steps are being taken to improve the culture of safety at Palisades nuclear 
power plant in southwestern Michigan amid concerns from federal regulators 
about its operations, representatives of the facility said. Source: Chicago 
Tribune (1/12)


Offshore wind energy right for Great Lakes? Picture becoming clearer
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Scientists in Michigan reeled in an impressive catch last month-a seven-ton 
floating laboratory that weathered a two-month trial on Lake Michigan to 
inform researchers about the potential to power wind energy installations 
offshore. Source: Medill Reports - Chicago (1/11)


Gas drilling could take air out of offshore wind
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Politics and price are pitting gas drilling against offshore wind on the 
Great lakes. State politics is tipping the balance toward hydrofracking, and 
away from what could be the first major offshore wind development in the 
Great Lakes. Source: North Country Public Radio (1/11)


NY landowners weigh in on gas-drilling regs
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Landowners hoping to sign leases with natural gas drillers say New York's 
proposed regulations put some land off-limits to drilling for no logical 
reason, under the guise of protecting water supplies. Source: Wall Street 
Journal (1/11)


Water protection plan to cover 'significant' threats
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Proposed measures to protect the region's source water won't be as 
restrictive as some city councillors feared, an official with the committee 
drafting those rules said Tuesday. Source: Brockville Recorder and Times 
(1/11)


Area wetlands to be restored
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Federal grant money is being used to restore wetlands and habitat in both 
the Erie State Game Area and Petersburg State Game Area in Monroe County, 
Michigan. Source: The Monroe Evening News (1/11)


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