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Great Lakes Daily News: 13 May 2005
A collaborative project of the Great Lakes Information Network and the Great
Lakes Radio Consortium.

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Wis. power plant will kill billions of fish, Sierra Club claims
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Billions of fish in Lake Michigan will die over the next 50 years if a new power
plant is built south of Milwaukee, according to a Sierra Club lawsuit. Source:
Chicago Sun-Times (5/13)


Sturgeon Bay tours offer shipbuilding insight
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If you’ve ever wondered how the Great Lakes’ largest and most luxurious ships
are built, Saturday’s Sturgeon Bay Rotary Shipyard Tours offer an inside look.
Source: Green Bay Press-Gazette (5/13)


Agencies, groups work to bring back the coaster brook trout
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More than two dozen government agencies, conservation groups and Indian tribes
in the United States and Canada are working to bring back the coaster brook
trout. Source: The Associated Press (5/13)


Regulators support proposal to expand Envirosafe landfill
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The Ohio and U.S. Environmental Protection agencies have issued draft permits
that would allow an Oregon hazardous waste landfill to more than double the
height of its active waste cell to 120 feet. Source: The Toledo Blade (5/13)


Great Lakes drilling limits unsettled
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Residents of states surrounding the Great Lakes agree they don't want new
drilling for oil or gas in the lakes, which contain one-fifth of the world's
fresh surface water. Source: The Detroit Free Press (5/13)


Bass fishing catching on for Buffalo anglers
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The great bass fishing around the western end of Lake Erie is no secret, and the
eastern end of Lake Erie is a pretty nifty bass fishing hole, too. Source: The
Plain Dealer (5/13)


Casino pitched for outer harbor
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A Las Vegas-based gambling corporation has met with Seneca leaders to pitch a
$350 million casino and entertainment complex on Buffalo's outer harbor.
Source: The Buffalo News (5/13)


DNR report to mayor revealed
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A special field team from the Minnesota DNR says that building a safe
harbor/marina in Grand Marais could have major impacts on natural resources if
care is not taken in its design and concept. Source: Cook County News-Herald
(5/12)


Rivalry brings business to S.S. Badger
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Pomp and circumstance set the scene Thursday for the Lake Michigan Badger's
first trip of the season between Manitowoc and Ludington, Michigan. Source:
WBAY TV (5/12)


COMMENTARY: Sappi has done their part, now it's time for cities to do the same
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The largest source of pollution in the Lake Superior watershed is the the
Western Lake Superior Sanitary District's facility in West Duluth, and in order
to make the overflows stop, everyone has to do their part. Source: The Pine
Journal (5/12)


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