A proposed consent decree that will serve as a roadmap for state and federal regulators to get more serious about reducing western Lake Erie’s chronic algal blooms is now available for public viewing until December 12. Read the full story by the Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-erie-settlement
The Montreal to Lake Ontario section of the St. Lawrence Seaway will close its navigation season on December 31 according to a release issued November 4 by the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation. Read the full story by the Penticton Herald.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-seaway-navigation
Broadcasting in our monthly PBS television program, The Catch is a Great Lakes Now series that brings you more news about the lakes you love. Go beyond the headlines with reporters from around the region who cover the lakes and drinking water issues. Find all the work HERE.
This month, The Catch features a story about a canoe that is thought to be made by ancestors of the Ho-Chunk Nation.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/11/the-catch-secrets-of-lake-mendota/
Shipments of potash and western Canadian grain are at multi-decade highs at the Port of Thunder Bay, Ontario. As the fall grain harvest moved through the port, local grain elevators handled 840,000 tonnes of wheat, canola, and other grains in October. Grain shipments for the month increased by 33 per cent compared to September and were eight per cent more than October of 2021. Read the full story by the Chronicle Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221111-potash
A $34.9 million cleanup of heavily contaminated Muskegon Lake and White Lake in West Michigan is estimated to have recovered $16.4 million in lost housing value for nearby homeowners.
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http://greatlakesecho.org/2022/11/11/study-finds-lake-cleanups-help-house-values-recover/
DETROIT (AP) — Sailors who lost their lives in shipwrecks on the Great Lakes and Michigan waterways will be remembered at a historic church in downtown Detroit.
The annual Great Lakes Memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday and will be livestreamed from Mariners’ Church along the Detroit River.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/11/ap-detroit-church-to-remember-sailors-lost-on-great-lakes/
Keep up with energy-related developments in the Great Lakes area with Great Lakes Now’s biweekly headline roundup.
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Chicago entrepreneur Arthur Burton is closing the gap in solar and electric vehicle charging stations in disinvested communities, while providing job training opportunities for at-risk youth.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/11/energy-news-roundup-electric-school-buses-solar-powered-recreational-boats-on-the-rise/
Environmental repossession — or reclaiming of land — may be crucial to both improving mental health and restoring relationships within the Indigenous community.
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http://greatlakesecho.org/2022/11/10/first-nations-people-go-outdoors-to-improve-mental-wellness/
Broadcasting in our monthly PBS television program, The Catch is a Great Lakes Now series that brings you more news about the lakes you love. Go beyond the headlines with reporters from around the region who cover the lakes and drinking water issues. Find all the work HERE.
This month, The Catch features a story about cruising the Great Lakes.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/11/the-catch-cruising-the-great-lakes/
The Great Lakes Aquaculture Collaborative recently received $425,000 in federal support to strengthen the aquaculture community in the Great Lakes region. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-aquaculture
NCEI News Feed
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/humans-ncei-myranda-uselton-shirk
A start up company recently got design approval to build a ship that moves cargo with sails rather than fuel. Whether such vessels will someday ply the Great Lakes is uncertain but interest in decarbonizing shipping is high. Read the full story by Great Lakes Echo.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-decarbonized-shipping
In 2022, there were 150 piping plover fledglings born to 72 breeding pairs around the Great Lakes, the biggest brood of fledglings since they were listed as federally endangered in 1986. Read the full story by Great Lakes Now.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-plovers
The Milwaukee Common Council has signed off on a $2 million investment in the South Shore Cruise Dock, in a bid to make the city a must-stop on the Great Lakes cruise circuit. Read the full story by WTMJ-TV – Milwaukee, WI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-cruise-dock
For the fourth year, Ontario residents can expect bridges over the Welland Canal to stay up into the new year as the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. extends the 2022 shipping season. Read the full story by the Welland Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-welland-canal
Environmental experts say Premier Doug Ford’s government proposal to build thousands of homes in parts of Ontario’s Greenbelt while adding protected land elsewhere will cause a host of ecological problems, including a higher possibility for contaminated drinking water. Read the full story by CBC News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-greenbelt
After an explosion four years ago, Wisconsin’s only oil refinery, just a few miles from Lakes Superior, is on track to start up early next year. Read the full story by Wisconsin Public Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-oil-refinery
Thought to be on its way out, western Lake Erie’s Summer 2022 algal bloom has grown since Oct. 29, and its unusually tough resiliency is baffling scientists, who admit they have no good explanation for why it’s been hanging around so long this year. Read the full story by The Toledo Blade.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-algal-bloom
A Great Lakes partnership has launched a new initiative to help preserve the local whitefish population and maximize the amount of revenue pulled from the waters. Read the full story by WJMN-TV – Escanaba, MI.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221109-100-whitefish
An aquaculture group recently received $425,000 in federal support to strengthen the aquaculture community in the Great Lakes region. The goal for the grant is to build up the local economy of aquaculture producers.
The post Great Lakes Aquaculture Collaborative receives support from federal government first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.Great Lakes Echo
http://greatlakesecho.org/2022/11/09/great-lakes-aquaculture-collaborative-receives-support-from-federal-government/
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(THE CONVERSATION) Humans do a lot of different things to the environment, and there aren’t many natural processes – aside from an asteroid impact or the like – that can rival the scale of change brought on by human activity.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/11/humans-now-a-driver-of-evolution-in-the-natural-world/
Fred Stonehouse is a maritime historian, author, and lecturer. He’s the author of over thirty books on maritime history, many focusing on the Great Lakes.
Carl Lindquist, founder and executive director of the Superior Watershed Partnership and Land Conservancy, a local nonprofit working on the Upper Peninsula dedicated to helping local communities adapt to climate change.
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NCEI News Feed
http://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202210
NCEI News Feed
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/national-climate-202210
A start up company recently got design approval to build a ship that moves cargo with sails rather than fuel. The 330-foot-long, hydrogen cell powered sailing vessel is proposed by the Veer Group, a Bahamas-based company committed to zero carbon emissions.
The post Can wind decarbonize Great Lakes shipping? Cargo vessels “veer” into alternative power first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.Great Lakes Echo
http://greatlakesecho.org/2022/11/08/can-wind-decarbonize-great-lakes-shipping-cargo-vessels-veer-into-alternative-power/
Great Lakes Moment is a monthly column written by Great Lakes Now Contributor John Hartig. Publishing the author’s views and assertions does not represent endorsement by Great Lakes Now or Detroit Public Television.
Today, many educators are experimenting with unique forms of instruction to increase student engagement in the classroom and encourage critical thinking.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/11/great-lakes-moment-video-game-teaches-watershed-management/
Broadcasting in our monthly PBS television program, The Catch is a Great Lakes Now series that brings you more news about the lakes you love. Go beyond the headlines with reporters from around the region who cover the lakes and drinking water issues. Find all the work HERE.
This month, The Catch features a story about Great Lakes piping plovers.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/11/the-catch-record-number-of-piping-plovers/
Thursday marks 47 years since the Edmund Fitzgerald went down with 29 souls on board, becoming Lake Superior’s most haunting shipwreck. On Thursday night, Split Rock Lighthouse will mark the somber occasion with the tolling of a bell as victims’ names are read, after which the beacon will be lit in memory and hope. Read the full story by the Duluth News Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-remembering-edmundfitzgerald
Even though two of the largest freshwater lakes in the world, Lake Michigan and Lake Superior, border Wisconsin, many of the state’s residents in formerly redlined communities still do not have easy access to clean and safe drinking water. Advocates want to ensure funds are used to provide grants or forgivable loans to help disadvantaged communities invest in critical water infrastructure. Read the full story by Inside Climate News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-wi-advocates-waterjustice
Root-Pike Watershed Initiative Network (WIN) is partnering with the University of Wisconsin Parkside and the Fund for Lake Michigan to reduce the stormwater runoff to the Pike River with a regenerative stormwater conveyance system. Read the full story by Kenosha News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-grantfunds-stormwater-improvement
A 10.15-pound smallmouth bass caught Thursday on Lake Erie set a new record for a Great Lakes smallmouth. Read the full story by New York Upstate News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-ohioangler-lakeeriesmallmouth-greatlakes-record
A multi-year project at Heddle Shipyards’ Port Weller Dry Docks will create more than 200 jobs after the company was awarded a $135.5-million contract to extend the life of Canadian Coast Guard Ship Terry Fox. The nearly three-year project will involve extensive engineering, planning and procurement phases, with shipyard work scheduled to begin December 2023. Read the full story by the Welland Tribune.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-heddleshipyards-coastguard
The Niagara Parks Power Station is Niagara Falls State Park’s latest attraction. In 2021 the park opened their generator hall where you can learn about the history of harnessing the power of the falls. Now you can walk through a tunnel that leads you to a spectacular view of the falls. Read the full story by WQBK- Malta, NY.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-tunnel-niagarafalls
The mutual decision to hold talks about transferring the trust’s duties to the city marks a significant milestone for the agency. It was created in 2000 to steward development which would connect Hamiltonians to the harbourfront. Read the full story by the Hamilton Spectator.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-hamiltonwaterfronttrust-confidential
Electric utilities are gradually phasing out coal-burning power plants in Michigan. But environmental groups are warning that some of those power plants are leaving behind a poisonous legacy. Read and listen to the full story by Michigan Radio.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-reportenvironmentalgroups-coal
Known as “The White Hurricane” and “The Freshwater Fury,” the Great Storm of 1913 claimed the lives of 250 sailors and 25 ships on the dangerous waters of the Great Lakes. Divers believe they have solved the mystery through a newly discovered historical account of an attempt to salvage a ship during World War I and by examination of shipwrecks. Read the full story by the Midland Daily News.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-greatstormmystery-greatlakes
Organizers battled uncooperative weather for the inaugural North Light Surf Classic, held in Frankfort, MI over the weekend. Surfers took to the water to show off their skills, surfing several hours until waves and wind became too much to handle. Read the full story by the Manistee News Advocate.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221107-frankfort-mi-surfsup
By Kelly House, Bridge Michigan
The Great Lakes News Collaborative includes Bridge Michigan; Circle of Blue; Great Lakes Now at Detroit Public Television; and Michigan Radio, Michigan’s NPR News Leader; who work together to bring audiences news and information about the impact of climate change, pollution, and aging infrastructure on the Great Lakes and drinking water.
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/11/nonprofit-buys-31000-forested-acres-by-copper-harbor/
During the fall migration season, over 4 billion birds in North America pass over our heads while we are sound asleep. Scientists use a number of technologies to understand more about birds' migratory patterns.
The post In today’s forecast: 4 billion birds migrate across North America first appeared on Great Lakes Echo.Great Lakes Echo
http://greatlakesecho.org/2022/11/07/in-todays-forecast-4-billion-birds-migrate-across-north-america/
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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service
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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service
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Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service
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Great Lakes Now tries to make every episode interesting and educational.
In “Surf and Turf,” dig into the future of land use in the Great Lakes as needs grow for both housing and agriculture, then join an eFoiling adventure on Lake Huron, and keep up with news about the lakes you love with The Catch!
Great Lakes Now
https://www.greatlakesnow.org/2022/11/surf-and-turf-the-great-lakes-now-episode-quiz/
Current Watches, Warnings and Advisories for Brown (WIC009) Wisconsin Issued by the National Weather Service
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In the effort to continue promoting a more dynamic and diverse supply chain for U.S. soybean farmers, the Soy Transportation Coalition (STC) has continued its partnership with The St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corporation (SLSMC) to encourage the greater utilization of the Seaway in accessing international markets. Specifically, the partnership extends the SLSMC’s “Gateway Incentive Program,” a 50% reduction on shipping tolls for new shipments of soybeans and agricultural freight via the Seaway. Read the full story by Ohio’s Country Journal.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221104-seaway-shipments
The city of Lakewood, Ohio, has agreed to spend approximately $85 million to improve its sewer system to significantly reduce the amount of raw sewage discharges from Lakewood’s system into Lake Erie and the Rocky River. Department of Justice officials said the city of Lakewood allegedly discharged untreated sanitary sewage into the bodies of water on at least 1,933 occasions from January 2016 to now. Read the full story by WOIO – Shaker Heights, OH.
Great Lakes Commission
https://www.glc.org/dailynews/20221104-sewer-improvements
