[dailynews] January 30, 2012

Great Lakes Daily News: January 30, 2012
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Mining bill faces difficult battle in Senate
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When members of a Wisconsin state Senate committee begin discussing a bill 
to streamline the permitting of iron mines, the process is likely to look 
considerably different from the route the Assembly took to Thursday's 
contentious passage of a similar bill. Source: Leader-Telegram (1/30)


Algoma Central signs $12 million agreement to install exhaust gas scrubbers
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Algoma Central Corp., an ocean shipping, ship repair, and marine engineering 
company, will install freshwater exhaust gas scrubbers on six new vessels. 
The vessels are designed for service on the Great Lakes. Source: Winnipeg 
Free Press (1/30)


Michigan muskrat trappers enjoy boom as demand for fur grows
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A growing market for muskrat pelts in China is a bonanza for Michigan 
trappers, some of whom trap the aquatic rodents along Lake St. Clair and in 
the rural regions of Wayne, Macomb, and Oakland counties. Source: Detroit 
Free Press (1/30)


Canadian, US scientists trying to revive Atlantic salmon in Lake Ontario
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U.S. and Canadian scientists are reviving the formerly thriving Atlantic 
salmon fishery in Lake Ontario, which collapsed about a century ago due to a 
mix of anglers, habitat-destroying development, and dams. Source: Great 
Lakes Echo (1/30)


EDITORIAL: Tourism opportunity
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In the Great Lakes region, an infusion of cash from foreign travelers could 
help clean up Lake Erie's beaches and fix the lake's worsening algae 
problem. Source: The Toledo Blade (1/30)


You haven't lived here until ... you go ice and snow sailing
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The world championship competition for ice and snow sailing, the equivalent 
of winter windsurfing, will be held February 20-26 in St. Ignace, Michigan. 
Source: Detroit Free Press (1/29)


14,000 pounds of Asian carp seized at Windsor-Detroit border
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On Wednesday 11,300 pounds of Asian carp, some of which were alive, were 
seized on the Canadian side of the Ambassador Bridge. That came about two 
weeks after 2,600 pounds of live Asian carp were seized at the border Jan. 
9. Source: The Windsor Star (1/27)


Research project to track bird migration hot spots on Superior shore
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An Algoma University professor plans to plant microphones along the shore of 
Lake Superior next fall to help find migratory hot spots that could be 
affected by wind energy development. Source: The Sault Star (1/26)

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