Conversation Café: A Place Worth Protecting seminar talks focused on protecting Lake Huron will take place throughout Michigan in the month of May, all of which include a free luncheon. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230407-luncheon-talks
An Ontario Superior Court of Justice ruled Monday that Chippewas of Saugeen First Nation is — and always has been — the rightful owner of Sauble Beach after decades of litigation. The 2.5-kilometre stretch of Lake Huron shoreline was previously claimed by the Town of South Bruce Peninsula. Read the full story by the St. Catherines Standard.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230407-sauble-beach
A new immersive, hands-on course at Muskegon Community College is taking a close look at freshwater ecology. The Aquatic Ecology course introduces students to the processes that occur in local bodies of water, including the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WOOD-TV Grand Rapids.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230407-beaver-island
The beginning of April marks the opening of the 2023 Great Lakes shipping season with the first freighter arriving Tuesday night at the Port of Cleveland. Read the full story by WEWS-TV – Cleveland, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230407-shipping-season
Researchers from across northwest Ohio met at the University of Toledo Lake Erie Center in Oregon on Wednesday to clean and calibrate sensors that will be going into Lake Erie in preparation for another summer algal bloom season. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230407-algal-bloom-devicea
Representatives of fifty-one Tribal and First Nations located in what is now the United States and Canada submitted a report to the United Nations Human Rights Council calling on the Government of Canada to stop violating the human rights of Indigenous peoples through its support for Enbridge’s Line 5 crude oil pipeline. Read the full story by Environmental Defence.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230407-line-5
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers found more efficient ways to construct a barrier near Chicago to keep invasive carp in the Mississippi River system out of the Great Lakes. But the cost is nearly 13 percent higher than a 2019 estimate. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230322-carp-barrier
The ecological success of artificial reefs in Lake Huron’s Thunder Bay could teach people how to restore fish populations across the world. Researchers observed that the number of trout eggs found indicated the fish used the constructed reefs just as much as the natural reefs. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230322-artifical-reefs
The Advance Shipwreck in Lake Michigan, near the town of Holland, Michigan, has been added to the Michigan State Register of Historic Places. Read the full story by the Sheboygan Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230322-advance-shipwreck
A bipartisan group of Great Lakes lawmakers introduced a resolution in Congress on Wednesday to oppose a Canadian proposal to permanently store spent nuclear fuel waste in the Great Lakes Basin. Read the full story by The Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230322-nuclear-waste
Macomb County, Michigan, will work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to study why a type of cyanobacteria, called lyngbya, is a growing problem in Lake Saint Clair. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230322-lyngbya
New guidance from an annual advisory issued by three Pennsylvania agencies indicates that depending on the species, many fish in Pennsylvania waterways shouldn’t be eaten more than once per week. Read the full story by Go Erie.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230322-pa-fish
Icebreaking in the Thunder Bay area of Lake Superior will begin this week, with the initial harbour breakout beginning on Thursday. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230322-thunder-bay
The Lake Huron Coastal Centre is looking for volunteer “citizen scientists” to monitor Lake Huron for changes along the lake’s 6,170-kilometer shoreline. Read the full story Owen Sound Sun Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230322-coastal-centre
Recently, the International Joint Commission, which manages Plan 2014 regulating Great Lakes water outflows, completed the first phase of the study. The commission has started the second phase, which focuses on long-term impacts of extreme weather. Read the full story by Spectrum News1.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230322-ijc-phase2
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will open the Poe Lock March 25, marking the 2023 Great Lakes shipping season start. The operating season is fixed by federal regulation and vessels inability to operate in typical Great Lakes ice conditions. Read the full story by WILX-TV – Onondaga, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230317-soo-lock
The hardiest freshwater fish in America, invasive carp, could revive the Midwest’s fishing industry—or destroy the Great Lakes. So much depends on your appetite. Read the full story by Wired.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230317-invasive-carp
A major passenger ferry to Mackinac Island will undergo renovations to transition from gas to an electric engine. The upcoming renovations are the first step in modernizing the entire ferry system. Read the full story by The Sault News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230317-mackinac-ferry
An effort to document local shipwrecks is part of a new exhibit at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum in Manitowoc. Read the fully story by WLUK-TV – Green Bay, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230317-maritime-meseum
The Niagara City Cruises, the famed boat tours that take tourists to the falls, is opening for the season on Thursday, the company announced. The “historic” opening marks the earliest point in the year that the Niagara City Cruises has ever begun operations, the company said, citing the mild winter weather. Read the full story by ABC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230317-niagara-falls
Water treatment facilities across the country could have to start testing for so-called ‘forever chemicals’ under a new proposal from the Environmental Protection Agency. City of Toledo, Ohio officials say they would see costs go up by about $1,000 if they had to test for PFAS but wouldn’t have to pass those costs on to customers. Read the full story by WTVG-TV – Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230317-epa-pfas-ruling
After winning a pair of state grants, New York’s Thousand Islands Land Trust will soon have $5.4 million at its disposal to use in conservation efforts. The Land Trust has set its sights on safe drinking water specifically from sites along the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario. Read the full story by WWNY-TV – Watertown, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230317-land-trust
Fourteen Michigan harbors would be dredged under President Joe Biden’s proposed budget that allocates more than $157 million for Great Lakes operations and maintenance, officials said. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230317-dredging
Activists from a Chicago neighborhood filed a lawsuit Monday that alleges that plans to expand a lakefront dump filled with polluted sediment break national environmental laws. Read the full story by Grist.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230317-pollution-dump-expansion
Escanaba, a town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, will welcome cruise ships for the first time this year, showing off its unique culture and Lake Michigan coastline. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230317-cruise
Ohio Representative Marcy Kaptur announced on Thursday the awarding of $99,590,000 for projects in the Great Lakes Region. The funds secured are for four projects that are critical to the economic development and environmental health of Ohio’s 9th Congressional District, Lake Erie shoreline communities and the Great Lakes region as a whole. Read the full story by WTVG-TV – Toledo, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230303-funding
The Great Lakes Water Authority is updating its Water Residential Assistance Plan for customers who struggle to pay their bills. The biggest change is that the program is now income-based. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230303-gl-water-authority
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is hosting a series of virtual “Conversations & Coffee” meetings, focusing on fisheries management around the state. Virtual meetings will be held throughout March and April. Read the full story by WHMI-FM – Howell, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230303-dnr-fish-meetings
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is holding a series of public meetings to provide information and get public input on the designation of part of Lake Ontario as a national marine sanctuary. Read the full story by WRVO-FM – Oswego, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230303-marine-sanctuary
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced the completion of a series of flood resiliency projects in the Village of Fair Haven, Cayuga County. The projects will help mitigate the impact of future high-water events and improve the resiliency of Cayuga County’s shoreline. Read the full story by WSTM-TV – Syracuse, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230303-flood-resliency
The State of Michigan is giving $3.6 million in grants to efforts to stop the spread of damaging plant, animal, and insect invasive species. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230303-invasive-species
Great Lakes Lightning Sprints is returning to the snowy Soo area for a second year in a row to make sprint races on the St. Marys River a local tradition. Read the full story by The Sault News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230303-lighting-sprints
The Pennsylvania Fish & Boat Commission Board of Commissioners have given preliminary approval to a list of proposed fee adjustments for various fishing licenses and permits for the 2024 license year. Read the full story by Erie News Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230303-license-fee
The city of Saugatuck, Michigan will receive hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge its harbor and portions of the Kalamazoo River. For the 2023 fiscal year, the Corps has allotted $895,000 for the project. Read the full story by WOOD-TV.com.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230303-dredging
The Charlevoix, Michigan lighthouse is lucky to still be around and has been in need of constant love and attention for most of its life. It is public sentiment that has kept the iconic structure standing through the years. Read the full story by the Petoskey News Review.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230303-lighthouse
On Tuesday, Jan. 31, Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a $1.1 billion supplemental spending bill which contained $25 million to develop a water shutoff prevention fund at the state treasury department. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230208-water-shutoffs
Reduced ice coverage on the Great Lakes can have an impact ranging from increased lake effect snow, decreased plankton production and increased competition among fish. Read the full story by WXYZ-TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230208-ice-impacts
The Great Lakes Shipwreck Historical Society announced the discovery of the 144-foot Barquentine “Nucleus,” which sank more than 150 years ago in Lake Superior. Read the full story by WXYZ-TV – Detroit, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230208-shipwreck
The state of Indiana may require Region municipalities providing public access to Lake Michigan to install life rings and other safety equipment in an effort to reduce drownings in the deadliest of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by the Longview News-Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230208-rescue-eqipment
The Great Lakes Task Force within the U.S. House of Representatives has told the Biden Administration it would like to have the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funded at $425 million for the next fiscal year, A $57 million increase in federal funding. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230208-glri
Floating, rock-like masses formed of fat, grease and trash like wet wipes and diapers — researchers found more than 100 of these “fatbergs” along the docks of Toronto Harbor last year. Floating water trash device called seabins are hoping to collect the trash. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230208-seabins
Two hundred fifty people will be putting their heads together at a conference in Madison to discuss a pressing freshwater challenge: how to reduce runoff, especially from agricultural fields, that carries phosphorus. Read the full story by WUWM – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230208-wi-freshwater
With a total catch limit of six fish, Michigan’s Black Lake sturgeon season lasted just 65 minutes on Saturday morning, Feb. 4, according to the Michigan Department of Natural Resources. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230208-sturgeon
The fate of a proposed 73-turbine wind project in northwest Ohio near the Black Swamp Bird Observatory could be decided by the Ohio Supreme Court, which is expected to hear a challenge to the proposal. Read the full story by The Plain Dealer.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230208-wind-farm
A bipartisan Congressional task force has asked President Joe Biden to dedicate more money to the Great Lakes in his 2024 fiscal year budget. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230201-glri
A report from a U.S.-Canadian group is calling on Michigan to make clean-up of the Detroit and Rouge rivers possible by utilizing funds from the America’s federal Great Lakes Legacy Act. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230201-detroit-river
Michigan has reached its first settlement in a series of lawsuits over PFAS contamination. The plastics company Asahi Kasei Plastics North America will have to pay for the full cost of cleanup in Livingston County, Michigan. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230201-pfas
The U.S. Coast Guard says it will take at least ten years for a new heavy icebreaker to make it onto the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WKAR – East Lansing, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230201-icebreaker
More than 36 million tons of cargo transited the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway system last year, with much of that tonnage an example of the critical role the system plays in the shifting global supply chain. Read the full story by Watertown Daily Times.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230201-seaway-system
The Sidney O. Neff, recognized for its innovative and architectural design as a steam barge, has been added to the National Register of Historic Places. The steam barge is submerged in Green Bay. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230201-shipwreck
