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Great Lakes Daily News: 14 February 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Radioactive dump site close to the Great Lakes?
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The Ontario town of Kincardine is proposing to put Canada's low-level nuclear waste in an underground chamber a mile from Lake Huron. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (2/14)


Creating particle pollution warning system
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Scientists are learning more about particle pollution from diesel engines, factories, power plants, and fireplaces that can reach harmful levels even in the winter months, as was seen recently in many parts of the Great Lakes region. Source: Great Lakes Radio Consortium (2/14)


COMMENTARY: Designing the lakefront is no day at the beach
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Try to imagine Milwaukee without its downtown lakefront - or imagine a lakefront so cluttered that you couldn't see the water. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2/14)


Just add water
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The Cleveland Port Authority has found a new recipe for development, but critics fear it has left the port itself high and dry. Source: The Plain Dealer (2/13)


Tribes placing their bets for Ohio casinos
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American Indian tribes that once thrived on the unspoiled expanse of Ohio want to reclaim ancestral lands -- for the spoils of casino gambling. Source: The Plain Dealer (2/13)


Wind power's potential kicks up growing interest
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In Wisconsin's Door County there are signs of growing interest in wind as an energy source. Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (2/13)


Spigot on lake water may be tightened
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The region's governors have heard from the people - more than 10,000 of them - on proposed rules governing Great Lakes water diversions, and the news doesn't necessarily look good for communities that lie beyond the Great Lakes basin dividing line. Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (2/13)


Marquette Township considers riparian buffer to protect Lake Superior
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The Central Lake Superior Watershed Partnership has proposed a proposed riparian buffer between lawns and stream-banks to remove pollutants, reduce bank erosion and sedimentation, and to encourage the health of rivers that empty into Lake Superior. Source: The Marquete Mining Journal (2/13)


Great Lakes Aquarium seeks more money
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Duluth city councilors will be asked today to raise the credit line for the Great Lakes Aquarium, which is suffering from a sluggish mid-winter cash flow. Source: Duluth News Tribune (2/12)


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