[dailynews] April 16, 2012

Great Lakes Daily News: April 16, 2012
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U.S. auto rebound fuels 14% Great Lakes cargo increase
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An economic recovery in the U.S. Midwest is boosting demand for millions of pounds of commodities such as limestone and iron ore as well as steel like the 4,000 tons (3,629 metric tons) unloaded in Detroit from the Federal Yukina, a freighter owned by Montreal-based Fednav Group. Source: Bloomberg Businessweek (4/16)


Underwater turbines run into opposition
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In theory, it's a simple concept: Harness Michigan's wind and water resources to generate electricity to aid in the movement away from fossil fuels. In practice, however, it has become maddeningly complex for some trying to make it happen. Source: Detroit News (4/16)


Indiana is trying to save Lake Michigan shipwrecks, and learn from them
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Indiana's movement to preserve its underwater history began in the 1980s, when salvagers attempted to raise the wreck of the J.D. Marshall, which sank in 1911 off the shore of Indiana Dunes State Park. Source: Indianapolis Star (4/16)


EDITORIAL: Support small harbors
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The state should get behind proposed federal legislation that would require Congress to dedicate the $1.6 billion that commercial shippers put into the federal Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund each year to Great Lakes dredging and maintenance projects. Source: Toledo Blade (4/16)


Why Michigan may make big cut in salmon stocked in Lake Michigan
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Lake Michigan is stocked annually with 2.5 million hatchery-raised Chinook fingerlings. But the Michigan DNR and other states are considering cutting that by 30 to 50 percent. Source: Grand Rapids Press (4/16)


EDITORIAL: Protect Erie's tributaries
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One of the best things John Kasich has done as Ohio's governor was veto a bad bill last year that would have allowed excessive water withdrawals from Lake Erie and its tributaries. The governor now must be equally vigilant about new legislative threats to the letter and spirit of the Great Lakes Compact. Source: Toledo Blade (4/15)


Shipwreck researchers share how technology aided unexpected discovery of schooner in Lake Michigan
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As world this weekend remembers the 100th anniversary of the Titanic's sinking, researchers recall how far technology has come in helping to explore ships underwater. Source: Holland Sentinel (4/14)


Effort at Lake Superior beach aims to help Wisconsin's rarest bird
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If you build it, or at least keep dogs and gulls away, they will come. That's the hope along a swath of Lake Superior shoreline in Douglas County this summer under a federally funded program to restore piping plovers, Wisconsin's rarest bird. Source: Duluth News Tribune (4/14)


Water levels expected to rise in Georgian Bay
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While Georgian Bay's water level has been low for about 10 years, that isn't expected to get worse; instead, a rise to levels similar to those as in the '70s is expected. Source: CottageCountry Now (4/13)


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