In a recent interview, Michigan State Sen. Stephanie Chang discussed the early days of trying to secure support from her colleagues on water equity and how the COVID-19 pandemic put a spotlight on water shutoffs. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230222-water-equity
The Great Lakes Boat Building School recently completed a large fundraising campaign and is poised to break ground on a 10,000-square-foot Marine Technology Center, a $3.8 million project that will double the school’s size and eventually quadruple its enrollment capacity. Read the full story by UPword.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230222-boating-school
Preventing a harmful algal bloom in Michigan’s Muskegon Lake is the focus of a free film screening of “The Erie Situation” and discussion about toxic algae, community awareness, and environmental activism. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230222-muskegon-lake
The Indiana Senate Committee on Natural Resources unanimously passed a bill on Monday that would require life ring stations on piers and at public access points on Lake Michigan. Read the full story by WNDU-TV – South Bend, IN.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230222-life-rings
While Ontario quakes are common but mild, scientists say more research is needed on whether natural water level fluctuations correlate with regional seismic activity. Read the full story by CBC Canada.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230222-water-levels
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By Elaine Mallon This is the second story in a 3-part Great Lakes Echo series on sustainable transport in the region With plans for an all-electric bus fleet by 2035, the University of Michigan will introduce its first four electric buses come next June. The $3.64 million purchase of the four electric buses falls […]
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Ice climbing in northern Michigan and a controversial wind energy project on Lake Erie.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/02/ice-climbing-and-offshore-wind-episode-2302/
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The Center for Community Transportation launched a new bikeshare service in November, Ithaca Bikeshare.
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Speakers include Alliance for the Great Lakes policy experts:
Joel Brammeier, President & CEO
Crystal M.C. Davis, Vice President for Policy and Strategic Engagement
Don Jodrey, Director of Federal Relations
Jennifer Caddick, Vice President, Communications & Engagement (Moderator)
Top 5 Great Lakes Federal Policy Priorities for 2023 – Alliance for the Great Lakes
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Story contributed by Elizabeth Striano, Michigan Sea Grant
When it rains or snows, precipitation that has not been absorbed by the ground washes over the landscape, often collecting pollution on the way. At a marina, this landscape may include parking lots, lift wells, vehicle maintenance areas, storage buildings, and vessel wash-down areas. Using nature-based techniques, like green infrastructure or rain gardens, to manage stormwater can provide significant benefits such as minimizing water pollution into the lake, eliminating nuisance flooding and improving aesthetics.
Michigan Sea Grant staff advised marina owners in their state to install systems like this to slow stormwater and let it infiltrate before hitting the surface water. Photo: Lakehouse Creative
Implementing a green infrastructure project, however, can prove challenging for marinas. They may not have the technical expertise or be unaware of how to secure funding for such efforts. Fortunately, Sea Grant programs can help fill that gap, either alone or via regional networks.
Recently, the Great Lakes Clean Marina Network (GLCMN) – which includes members of the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network (GLSGN) – worked with marinas in Wisconsin, Michigan and Ohio to help support their efforts to write grants, obtain funding, implement projects and communicate to the public. A new video details the effort. The GLCMN connected marinas with technical guidance and environmental education necessary to implement these types of projects. The GLSGN helped leverage expertise in financial and project coordination, funding and communications, including understanding of the regulations.
Marinas participating in the project include:
Participating marinas received the support and facilitation they needed for implementation, from beginning to end. In addition, communications and coordination often compose a big part of these projects — and the Sea Grant community already has the capacity for this in addition to understanding the research and ability to communicate it effectively to all audiences.
Barker’s Island Marina in Superior recently installed green infrastructure to keep Lake Superior cleaner. Photo: Danger Bird Productions.
These marinas have become stewards for more widespread adoption and innovation of these practices. These projects also show how Sea Grant networks can help marinas and their communities by connecting them to groups, people, and resources that can help ensure that they have a seat at the local table to advocate for their marina projects.
Interested marinas can learn more here or should reach out to the marina contact at their state’s Sea Grant program.
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Macomb County Public Works Commissioner and member of the Great Lakes Commission Candice Miller believes Michigan’s fresh water resources will become even more important in the future, as the world’s climate continues to change. Read the full story by the Macomb Daily.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230220-protectingmiswater
For years, region environmentalists have demanded that NIPSCO remove every last bit of coal ash from the Michigan City, Indiana generating station property. Now a potential settlement in a lawsuit filed against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could force NIPSCO to complete the “clean closure” the groups have been asking for. Read the full story by The Times of Northwest Indiana.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230220-coalashrestrictions-cleanupefforts-epa
Plans for a redeveloped DL&W Terminal call for music and a public market. Could they also include cruise ships? That prospect will be considered when a consultant is chosen in the next couple of months to conduct a feasibility study. Read and listen to the full story by The Buffalo News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230220-buffalo-greatlakescruiseshipport
Scientists have long known rising temperatures favor growth of potentially harmful algal blooms, but a new study finds increasing evidence that they also form in cold and even ice-covered waters. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230220-harmfulalgalbloom-coldweather
A historic off-shore lighthouse near the Mackinac Bridge may host a one-of-a-kind summer camp next year that aims to teach teens about career opportunities in the trades while on location at the remote White Shoal Lighthouse, a rare Great Lakes crib light that sits 20 miles west of the Mackinac Bridge. Read the full story by MLive.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230220-greatlakeslighthouse-summercamp-2024
The latest shipowners joining the growing number ready to explore methanol fueling are Canada’s Algoma Central Corporation and CSL Group. They announced a newbuild order for four methanol-ready Kamsarmax-class self-unloading vessels to replace the oldest vessels in their CSL International Pool. Read the full story by Marine Log.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230220-methanolready-oceanselfloaders
A stretch of Lake Huron from just east of the Mackinac Bridge to the Presque Isle Lighthouse could see gusts to 40 knots and waves as high as 11 feet, with the gale watch expected to stay in effect from Monday evening through Tuesday afternoon. Read the full story by the Detroit News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230220-galewatch-greatlakes
To learn more about the erosion situation and how it’s changing, a team of researchers from the University of Windsor is studying the effects of lake ice on Lake Erie’s shores. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230220-erosion-shoresoflakeerie-southwestontario
The search for small balloons shot down recently by US and Canadian fighter jets over Alaska and Lake Huron has been called off, military commanders have said, days after balloon hobbyists in northern Illinois indicated that one of the stray unidentified flying objects could belong to their group. Read the full story by The Guardian.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230220-unidentifiedobject-lakehuron-searchends
The winter of 2022-2023 has been extraordinary with record warm temperatures in the eastern United States. Great Lakes ice coverage is about 30% below average for this time of year. Read the full story by WKBN-TV – Youngstown, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230220-greatlakes-icecoverage-recordlow
In 2014, Detroit and Michigan received international attention on a water issue, but it wasn’t the spotlight either would have wanted.
The United Nations dispatched an official human rights rapporteur to Detroit to document the harm caused by water shutoffs based on the inability to pay. “There was no water for food or toilets or for care of the elderly or kids, people had to go to public parks and put water in cans,” water rights advocate Maude Barlow told Great Lakes Now in a 2022 interview.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/02/hope-springs-eternal-for-michigan-legislator-who-champions-drinking-water-equity/
Editor’s Note: “Nibi Chronicles,” a monthly Great Lakes Now feature, is written by Staci Lola Drouillard. A direct descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Ojibwe, she lives and works in Grand Marais on Minnesota’s North Shore of Lake Superior. Her two books “Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe” and “Seven Aunts” were published 2019 and 2022, and she is at work on a children’s story.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2023/02/nibi-chronicles-standing-strong-with-mushers-on-the-north-shore-of-lake-superior/
Plans to divert water from the Great Lakes to other states date back more than a century. But in 2008, the eight Great Lake states signed a formal agreement, known as the Great Lakes Compact, outlining how states will manage and protect the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230217-water-access
A release provided by the Wisconsin DNR on Wednesday states that over six million fish were stocked in the past year to fill stocking quotas that are established by fisheries biologists for Wisconsin’s inland waters and the Great Lakes. Read the full story by WFRV -TV – Green Bay, Wisconsin.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230217-dnr
The Detroit District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and Great Lakes Fishery Commission announced Monday the completion of the permanent sea lamprey trap in Iosco County, Michigan. Read the full story by the Huron Daily Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230217-lamprey
PolyMet Mining and Teck Resources finalized a joint venture Wednesday to complete the copper-nickel mine that PolyMet has been developing in northeastern Minnesota, and the partnership hopes to eventually build a separate mine next door in an even larger ore body that Teck controls. Read the full story by the Associated Press.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230217-polymet
A Canadian energy firm said Wednesday there’s no “credible scenario” where a significant rupture on a proposed reroute of its oil and gas pipeline would reach Lake Superior. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230217-line5
The Wisconsin waters of Lake Michigan will be stocked with more chinook salmon in 2023 but all other salmon and trout species will be unchanged, according to a plan recently announced by the Department of Natural Resources. Read the full story by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230217-chinook-restock
Cruise ships on the Great Lakes may be smaller in stature than their ocean-going counterparts, but they’re making a big financial impact on lakeside local economies. Read the full story by The Petoskey News-Review.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20230217-cruise-benefits
