Daily News (Page 108)

Once-ignored Indigenous knowledge of nature now shaping science

On: July 27, 2022

The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe and the U.S. Forest Service signed a memorandum of understanding in 2019 for shared stewardship of the Chippewa National Forest; now, with more diverse trees and shrubs and less underbrush, the forest has responded to this holistic management approach incorporating traditional ecological knowledge. Read the full story by MPR News.

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https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220727-indigenous-management

State support: Natural Resources Trust Fund grants authorized

On: July 27, 2022

Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-Mich.) authorized $45.6 million in Michigan Natural Resources Trust Fund grants to create more opportunities for outdoor recreation. The Fund was created in 1976 to provide funding for public acquisition of land for resource protection and outdoor recreation. Read the full story by The Daily Mining Gazette.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220727-recreation-grants

Oil sensors sound all clear after oil spill

On: July 27, 2022

After a 5,300-gallon oil spill in the St. Marys River on June 9, Lake Superior State University’s Center for Freshwater Research and Education and LimnoTech placed sensors to monitor its containment. As of the end of July, the sensors continue not to detect any signs of lingering hydrocarbons from the spill. Read the full story by SooToday.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220727-oil-sensor

Lake Erie Awareness Day brings nature and family-friendly activities to Put-in-Bay

On: July 27, 2022

Lake Erie Awareness Day will take place in Put-in-Bay, Ohio, on Thursday, August 11. This event will feature activity stations to explore the cultural, historical, and ecological importance of the islands and draw attention to aquatic and terrestrial conservation efforts. Read the full story by WTOL-TV – Toledo, OH.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220727-erie-awareness

A federal funding program with bipartisan support helped clean up the Great Lakes. Could it work for the Mississippi River too?

On: July 25, 2022

Advocates for the Mississippi River are hoping that a proposed federal funding program, modeled after an effort to clean up the Great Lakes, could change the trajectory of the river’s increasing flood frequency, address invasive species, pollution, and the dead zone where the Mississippi empties into the Gulf of Mexico. Read the full story by Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220725-mississippi

Patrick Canniff

Conservation groups want to intervene in state, tribal treaty negotiations over Great Lakes fishing

On: July 25, 2022

Members of a hunting and fishing advocacy group want a federal judge to make them an official party to negotiations between the state and five Michigan tribes over treaty-protected fishing rights. Read the full story by Mlive.com.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220725-fishing

Patrick Canniff

Environmentalists say Wisconsin failed to fully review an oil pipeline project’s risks. The EPA agrees.

On: July 25, 2022

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources is the lead state agency for Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline, permitting the $450 million project and in December, released a draft environmental review of the company’s plan. Now, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says the state’s review failed to fully analyze the ways in which the project could harm the environment, as well as tribal resources and treaty rights. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220725-line-3

Patrick Canniff

Group questions accuracy of IJC’s Georgian Bay water-level data

On: July 25, 2022

Members of the Georgian Bay Great Lakes Foundation addressed the council of Tiny Township, Ontario at the recent committee of the whole meeting, presenting an update on Georgian Bay issues including water levels and water quality, and asking the township for a letter of support for funding from the federal government. Read the full story by BarrieToday.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220725-georgian-bay

Patrick Canniff

Record-setting attempt to paddleboard across all 5 Great Lakes continues this week

On: July 25, 2022

A Canadian man on a quest to raise awareness and money for mental health through crossing all five Great Lakes by paddleboard this summer, is ready for his next conquest. Mike Shoreman, who this summer has crossed Lake Erie, Lake Huron and Lake Superior by paddleboard, is planning on crossing Lake Michigan, starting on Tuesday night and overnight into Wednesday. Read the full story by WJXT-TV – Jacksonville, FL.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220725-paddleboard

Patrick Canniff

Water quality update for Ohio

On: July 25, 2022

The 2022 algal bloom is expected to have a low severity index of 3.5, according to the final forecast from the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration released June 30. This will be the fourth year out of the past seven that the algal bloom will be rated less than 4 on a scale of 1 (mild) to 10 (severe). Read the full story by Ohio’s Country Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220725-algae

Patrick Canniff

Will Michigan farmers voluntarily help reduce phosphorus loading into Lake Erie?

On: July 25, 2022

The River Raisin contributes phosphorus and drains into Lake Erie. Now, Michigan farmers are talking about what can be done. Read the full story by Michigan Public Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220725-phosphorus

Patrick Canniff

Simmering Lake Huron shore war thrusts beach rights under spotlight

On: July 25, 2022

Tempers are flaring on a stretch of Southwestern Ontario’s Lake Huron shore amid complaints of trespassing and bullying as frustrated cottage owners clash with beachgoers over access to the sand and water on their private property. Read the full story by The London Free Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220725-beach

Patrick Canniff

District energy system at Lakeview Village could inch Peel closer to critical climate targets

On: July 25, 2022

The future Lakeview Village will see 8,000 residential units constructed on 177 acres of Mississauga, Ontario’s Lake Ontario coastline. A district energy system could drastically reduce the carbon footprint of these units and their future residents utilizing the adjacent waste water treatment plant. Read the full story by The Pointer.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220725-energy

Patrick Canniff

COMMENTARY: In response: ‘There is good reason to be concerned about sulfide mining’

On: July 25, 2022

Residents of Aitkin County, Minnesota have concerns with proposed sulfide mining in the state near abundant wetlands and the headwaters of the Mississippi River and St. Croix watershed, and with many nearby communities including Minneapolis, St. Paul, and Duluth there is concern these communities could eventually be affected by acid drainage among other issues. Read the full story by Duluth News-Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220725-sulfide

Patrick Canniff

Researchers race to understand what lies beneath the Great Lakes

On: July 22, 2022

Researchers are on a mission to map the bottom of all five Great Lakes, a system so sparsely-documented, some portions contain only one or two data points to cover an area the size of Detroit. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-mappingbottomgreatlakes

Hannah Reynolds

Get up close and personal with ‘vampires of the Great Lakes’

On: July 22, 2022

A tank of live invasive sea lampreys — the vampires of the Great Lakes — will visit the Midland Tall Ships Festival from July 22 through July 24. Read the full story by Midland Today.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-vampiresofthegreatlakes

Hannah Reynolds

DNA from invasive silver carp identified in Lake Erie’s Presque Isle Bay

On: July 22, 2022

The Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission announced that it has conducted targeted invasive carp sampling in Presque Isle Bay, Erie County, after the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) detected the presence of Silver Carp environmental DNA (eDNA). Read the full story by PennWATCH.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-invasivesilvercarp

Hannah Reynolds

‘Red flag deals’ aim to keep people out of Lake Michigan

On: July 22, 2022

Some South Haven businesses have started offering red flag day specials — deals to incentivize families to visit them rather than Lake Michigan when conditions are dangerous. Read the full story by UP Matters.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-redflagdealslakemi

Hannah Reynolds

Fish survey nets to be placed in St. Marys River

On: July 22, 2022

Member agencies of the St. Marys River Fisheries Task Group will conduct a fish community survey of the entire St. Marys River during August. The St. Marys River is a connecting channel between Lake Superior and Lake Huron. The survey work will cover many locations along the 70-mile-long river, from the upper river near Brimley to where the river empties into Lake Huron at DeTour. Read the full story by The Mining Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-fishsurverystmarysriver

Hannah Reynolds

Great Lakes cruises bring passengers, revenue to Muskegon

On: July 22, 2022

West Michigan welcomes tens of thousands of visitors from around the world every summer and many of them travel by cruise ship. Cruise the Great Lakes expects about 150,000 visitors into ports around the Midwest and Canada in 2022. There are 4 cruise lines serving Great Lakes ports, generating more than $120 million this season. One of those ports is Muskegon. Read the full story by Fox 7 News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-greatlakescruises

Hannah Reynolds

Mayor backs Hamilton museum at waterfront Discovery Centre

On: July 22, 2022

A local history museum paired with the public library would make for an “exciting” combination at the Discovery Centre on Hamilton’s west harbour, Mayor Fred Eisenberger says. Read the full story by the Hamilton Spectator.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-waterfrontdiscoverycentre

Hannah Reynolds

Local parks receive state funding for renovations

On: July 22, 2022

Three parks in Northeast Michigan will undergo improvements after Michigan allocated $535,000 to help fund renovations. Rogers City is slated to receive $185,000 to update the popular Lakeside Park on Lake Huron. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-localparkfunding

Hannah Reynolds

Jury gets Flint water case about liability for engineers

On: July 22, 2022

Jurors heard closing arguments Thursday in the only trial to arise thus far from the Flint water crisis, a dispute over whether two engineering firms should be held partially responsible for the city’s lead contamination in 2014-15. Read the full story by WNEM-TV – Saginaw, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-flintwatercase

Hannah Reynolds

Canadian Coast guard has responsibilities

On: July 22, 2022

Sixty years of the Canadian Coast Guard service in Canada was recognized during a service aboard the Canadian Coast Guard vessel and museum, the Alexander Henry, on Monday. The Alexander Henry, a decommissioned icebreaker and part of the Lakehead Transportation Museum in Thunder Bay, was also celebrated — as it was launched in the city 64 years ago. Read the full story by The Chronicle Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220722-cacoastguard

Hannah Reynolds

COMMENTARY: The Great Lakes are drowning in plastic

On: July 20, 2022

The high concentration of microplastics in the Great Lakes is causing issues for humans and wildlife, and recycling alone will not remedy the problem. Read the full story by the Hamilton Spectator.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-miroplastics

Connor Roessler

Rochester embayment of Lake Ontario no longer ‘Area of Concern’

On: July 20, 2022

With the improvement of water and wildlife conditions within the Rochester, New York, embayment of Lake Ontario, health and environmental agencies are seeking public input on the proposed elimination of the Area of Concern designation. Read the full story by the Rochester Business Journal.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-rochester-embayment

Connor Roessler

Harmful algae bloom invades Lake Erie

On: July 20, 2022

A harmful algae bloom that can be toxic to humans and aquatic life has been spotted in western parts of Lake Erie over the past couple of days. The type of algae present in this algae bloom has been identified as Microcystis cyanobacteria. Read the full story by WKBN-TV – Youngstown, OH.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-algae-bloom

Connor Roessler

Pennsylvania hearing focuses on Lake Erie fish, tourism

On: July 20, 2022

A recent meeting of the Pennsylvania Senate’s Game & Fisheries Committee focused on the recovery of fish populations and water quality in Lake Erie, as well as the need for more funding to promote tourism for the area. Read the full story by The Center Square.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-erie-hearing

Connor Roessler

New technology could help improve responses to oil spills

On: July 20, 2022

For the first time in four years, local, tribal, and state groups came together with the U.S. Coast Guard to train for disasters on the Great Lakes. Drones, self-driving personal watercraft, and other remote-controlled water vehicles took center stage on Lake Huron. Read the full story by WPBN-TV – Traverse City, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-oil-spills

Connor Roessler

Save the River and lawmakers fight for stricter ballast water discharge standards

On: July 20, 2022

Working with the organization Save the River, 34 members of U.S. Congress have sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency lobbying for stricter ballast water discharge standards. Read the full story by WRVO- Oswego, NY.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-ballast-standards

Connor Roessler

EGLE planning to build jetty as part of waste clean-up effort near Buffalo Reef

On: July 20, 2022

Awaiting state budget approval, the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy could soon be building a jetty in the first step to clean up mine waste from Buffalo Reef on Lake Superior with the help of six additional agencies. Read the full story by WLUC-TV – Marquette, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-egle-jetty

Connor Roessler

Northland students find freshwater bond across borders

On: July 20, 2022

A group of Duluth, Minnesota, high school students has collaborated with their peers in Petrozavodsk, Russia, to produce a video celebrating their shared connections as residents of communities located on two of the largest freshwater lakes in the world — Lake Superior and Lake Onega. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-student-connections

Connor Roessler

Great Lakes Water Authority denies 24,000 flooding claims from summer 2021

On: July 20, 2022

The Great Lakes Water Authority announced that they’ve denied about 24,000 claims from victims of last year’s extensive southeast Michigan summer flooding after a probe found that heavy rainfall was the primary cause, not the electrical problems at two east-side pumping stations that reduced the ability to pump wastewater. Read the full story by the Detroit Free Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220720-flooding-claims

Connor Roessler

60th anniversary parade and ceremony mark Canadian Coast Guard Day

On: July 18, 2022

A parade and ceremony will take place today in Thunder Bay, Ontario in recognition of 60 years of Canadian Coast Guard service. The event will celebrate the critical contribution and role of the Canadian Coast Guard in maintaining and policing the waterways of the Great Lakes – St. Lawrence Seaway System since 1962. Read the full story by Lake Superior News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-coast-guard

Patrick Canniff

Happy Lake Superior Day! 5 facts about the biggest of Great Lakes

On: July 18, 2022

Celebrated every year on the third Sunday in July, Lake Superior Day is a day to bask in the glory of the largest of the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WDIC-TV – Detroit, MI.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-lake-superior

Patrick Canniff

Fishing should be ‘absolutely forbidden’ during spawning season

On: July 18, 2022

Dr. David Philipp, a professor at the University of Illinois and a Director of the Fisheries Conservation Foundation has been studying the bass populations in eastern Ontario lakes for decades. He argues that though the bass season opened June 18 this year, males were still guarding their broods contributing to increased nest predation. Read the full story by Smiths Falls Record News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-fish-spawning

Patrick Canniff

After pandemic shutdown, the cruise ship industry is booming on the Great Lakes

On: July 18, 2022

Even though this is the first year for the Viking’s cruise ships on the Great Lakes, commercial cruising has been slowly expanding in the lakes the past decade, with the exception of the initial pandemic years. 2022 may be setting records, with nine cruise ships setting sail this season, four of them new ships making their inaugural trips through the locks and into the lakes. Read the full story by Chicago Tribune.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-cruise-ship

Patrick Canniff

Brown trout population remains small

On: July 18, 2022

The state of Michigan may no longer plant brown trout in Lake Huron in Northeast Michigan, as efforts to release them yielded only about 2% survival. Instead, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources is planning to release brown trout in other areas where they believe the survival rate is higher. Read the full story by The Alpena News.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-brown-trout

Patrick Canniff

Lost shipwreck resurfaces in Lake Michigan nearly 200 years after sinking

On: July 18, 2022

Kevin Ailes began researching the wreck of the Milwaukie, a ship that went down in a fierce winter storm near Saugatuck in November of 1842. It’s one of the earliest known shipwrecks along the West Michigan lakeshore. Read the full story by UpNorthLive.com.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-shipwreck

Patrick Canniff

Ontario seeks new electricity generation as demand rises, nuclear plant to be retired

On: July 18, 2022

Ontario’s electricity system is searching for more power producers as demand rises and a major nuclear plant nears retirement, a process likely to secure more natural gas generation while the government seeks to end reliance on it. It means that for at least the next two decades, greenhouse gas emissions from the electricity sector are set to increase. Read the full story by The Canadian Press.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-energy-nuclear

Patrick Canniff

Big pit energy: an old mine could bring renewables and new life to an eastern Ontario town

On: July 18, 2022

The former Marmoraton iron mine in Northland, Ontario is being considered for a pumped energy storage site potentially powering 1,000 homes through the stored hydropower, but financial concerns remain. Read the full story by The Narwhal.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-energy-pump

Patrick Canniff

It’s an adventure: Sailors head out for 98th Port Huron-to-Mackinac Island Sailboat Race

On: July 18, 2022

On Saturday July 16^th, the 98th Bayview Mackinac Race took place as more than 170 sailboats headed out onto Lake Huron. Read the full story by Times Herald.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-sailboat-race

Patrick Canniff

Dead fish continue to wash up on shore near Euclid Waterfront

On: July 18, 2022

The town of Euclid, OH located about 15 minutes northeast of Cleveland, has had fish wash up on their shoreline over the past week. View the full story by WOIO-TV – Euclid, OH.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220718-dead-fish

Patrick Canniff

Industries and public water supplies top the list of main consumers of Great Lakes water

On: July 15, 2022

In the Great Lakes basin, public water supplies and industrial water consumption are continually both the largest users and consumers of water, but overall usage of Great Lakes water has gone down in recent years according to the Great Lakes Commission’s most recent water use report. Read the full story by Michigan Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-water-consumers

Theresa Gruninger

New web scanning technology helps protect the Great Lakes from invasive species

On: July 15, 2022

Great Lakes officials are using tech to scan the web for businesses selling invasive species. The Great Lakes Commission is testing a web-crawler that scans for websites selling invasive species that could harm the Great Lakes. Read the full story Michigan Radio.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-gldiatr

Theresa Gruninger

New state budget includes $34M for fish hatcheries, new Great Lakes research vessel

On: July 15, 2022

Michigan’s fisheries will be getting a $34 million boost from the state’s new budget, which will go to infrastructure upgrades at Michigan’s aging fish hatcheries and replacing an outdated Great Lakes survey vessel. Read the full story by MLive.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-fish-budget

Theresa Gruninger

Supply chain issues not hitting Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway, officials optimistic

On: July 15, 2022

The Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway System, a 300-mile freshwater system that includes both Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, has seen a steady increase in traffic since the start of its 2022 navigation season with few supply chain issues. Read the full story WWTI-TV – Watertown, NY.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-supply-chain

Theresa Gruninger

Toxic algal blooms are driving up water costs in the Great Lakes

On: July 15, 2022

Beyond the health risks of algal blooms, Toledo, Ohio residents are paying the price for this ever-present threat. According to a report released in May by the nonprofit Alliance for the Great Lakes, the city of Toledo spends, on average, $18.76 per person annually on algal bloom monitoring and treatment, making water bills unaffordable to many. Read the full story by Grist.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-water-cost

Theresa Gruninger

Group calls for a moratorium on offshore Lake Erie turbines

On: July 15, 2022

The group Citizens Against Wind Turbines In Lake Erie held an informational meeting Tuesday night in Hamburg, New York calling for a moratorium on offshore turbines in the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WGRZ-TV – Buffalo, New York.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-wind-turbines

Theresa Gruninger

New York DEC gets $150K to expand environmental learning for Lake Ontario, St. Lawrence River schools

On: July 15, 2022

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation announced on Wednesday that it received a $150,000 grant to expand K-12 environmental education in the Lake Ontario and St. Lawrence River watersheds. Read the full story by the Watertown Daily Times.

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Great Lakes Commission

https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20220715-education

Theresa Gruninger