[dailynews] January 18, 2013

Great Lakes Daily News: January 18, 2013
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Upstate NYers sour on fracking
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A new Siena poll shows that 51 percent of upstate voters now oppose the gas 
extraction process called hydrofracking. Source: The Tonawanda News (1/18)


COMMENTARY: Path to Great Lakes protection: Tax the polluters
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Taxing the polluters for external costs could be the solution for better 
sewage treatment infrastructure. Source: Great Lakes Echo (1/18)


Pizza chain donating $6,000 to support environment
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Last year, Buddy's Pizza in Detroit launched a line of Great Lakes-themed 
pizzas and said that $1 from each pie sold from its Made in Michigan Great 
Lakes Pizza Collection would be donated to the Alliance for the Great Lakes. 
Source: The Detroit News (1/18)


Dire warnings for lake levels
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Michigan and Huron are the only lakes in the Great Lakes system to see 
record lows this winter. In December, levels hit a record low, falling a 
centimetre - on average - below the average record low set in December, 
1964. Source: Collingwood Enterprise-Bulletin (1/17)


Ohio farmers warned by ag industry about phosphate pollution, new regs
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Ohio's premier fishing and boating lakes are suffering from algal blooms, 
especially Western Lake Erie and Grand Lake St. Marys. Source: The Plain 
Dealer (1/17)


Great Lakes shipwrecks the focus of MLive and Muskegon Chronicle live chat
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Shipwrecks, especially those uncovered by low water levels near Harbor 
Island in Grand Haven and others off the West Michigan shoreline, will be 
the focus of an online live chat. Source: MLive (1/17)


Study shows plants blooming early as climate changes
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A new study shows native plants bloomed about a month early last year in the 
Eastern U.S. The study follows up on the work of Aldo Leopold and Henry 
David Thoreau. Source: Wisconsin Public Radio (1/17)


Low lake levels force change for Washington Island Ferry Line
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Visitors, residents, and cargo traveling to Washington Island will be taking 
a different approach once the ice sets in on Lake Michigan. Source: The 
Peninsula Pulse (1/16)


Seaway officials: 2012 shipping season "exceeded" expectations
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Officials with the Canadian Seaway Management Corp. said Monday that the 
total tonnage of goods that crossed the St. Lawrence Seaway increased by 4 
percent over 2011. Source: Watertown Daily Times (1/15)


Lake Ontario's troubled waters
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A new study shows that Lake Ontario is the most stressed of the five Great 
Lakes. Its most severe stressors are invasive species, nitrogen runoff and 
toxic pollution from mercury and PCBs. Source: The Syracuse Post-Standard 
(1/14)


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