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Great Lakes Daily News: 29 October 2003
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Lake Erie botulism study to be presented
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On Nov. 7, researchers from the State University of New York will present
findings from a two-year study on botulism in Lake Erie. Source: Erie
Times-News (10/29)


COMMENTARY: A porous coastal defence
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Colin Kenny, a senator who chairs Canada's Standing Senate Committee on
National Security and Defence, claims the Canadian Navy is not adequately
defending coasts and have little or no jurisdiction over interior waters,
such as the Great Lakes. Source: The Toronto Star (10/29)


Opening up the lakeshore
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U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky's Marquette Greenway Plan includes recapturing 75
percent of the Lake Michigan shoreline in northwest Indiana for public use.
Source: The Munster Times (10/29)


Ohio's air is rated worst for coal-fired plant emissions
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Ohio is the worst state for air pollution generated by coal-fired power
plants, according to a report issued yesterday by one of several groups
suing the Bush administration for tougher emission controls. Source: The
Toledo Blade (10/29)


Tribes buy Crandon mine site
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The Forest County Potawatomi and the Mole Lake Band of the Sokaogon Chippewa
paid $16.5 million for the site of a proposed zinc and copper mine, ending a
battle between mine proponents and foes that crossed four decades. Source:
Green Bay Press-Gazette (10/29)


COMMENTARY: Lakefront preservation ought to be passion of all Chicagoans
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City officials passed the Lakefront Protection Ordinance 30 years ago to
safeguard Chicago's 30 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline. But Is Chicago
making good in fulfilling its visionary principles? Source: Chicago
Sun-Times (10/29)


Company seeks to send waste into Lake Erie
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The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency will meet Friday to hear comments
from the public about a Painesville Township plastic processing company that
wants to discharge industrial wastewater into Lake Erie. Source: The
Cleveland Plain Dealer (10/28)


EDITORIAL: McGuinty must stick to coal-conversion plan
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The Ontario Liberal government's resolve to convert the province's three
coal-fired electricity generation plants - in particular Nanticoke - to
natural gas operation by 2007 is applauded. Source: The St. Catharines
Standard (10/28)


Biologists unify coaster brook trout effort
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Coaster brook trout are beginning to increase in the Nipigon Bay and Nipigon
River area of Ontario, but the road to restoration will be long in other
areas of Lake Superior. Source: Duluth News Tribune (10/26)


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