GLIN Daily News RSS Feed http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ 2010-03-12T14:01:01-04:00 http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ http://www.glin.net/news/rss.gif text/html 2010-03-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.thetimesherald.com/article/20100312/NEWS01/3120309/-1/NEWSFRONT2/Coast-Guard-keeps-tabs-on-ice-bridge The 30- to 35-square-mile ice bridge in southern Lake Huron has some officials worried about a repeat of 1984, when an ice bridge broke up and blocked the St. Clair River for 24 days, flooding the southern part of the county and costing the shipping industry $1.7 million. text/html 2010-03-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20100312/NEWS03/303129981 Officials have less than three weeks to clear the channel between Snowshoe Bay and Lake Ontario. The area must be dredged by April 1, so as not to interfere with the beginning of the spawning season for brown trout and steelhead trout. text/html 2010-03-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://dcnonl.com/article/id37958 Very soon, the Kingston Dry Dock dry dock, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, will be looking younger -- new masonry and concrete work will have reversed the aging process and ensure the dry dock and the upgrades will last for decades to come. text/html 2010-03-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://blog.syracuse.com/outdoors/2010/03/lake_ontario_fishery_complicat.html 2009 was a good year for fishermen in Lake Ontario, with catches in most species up from the year before -- despite a lot of crazy stuff going on in the lake that can be traced back to the impact of invasive species. text/html 2010-03-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.ludingtondailynews.com/news/48500-offshore-wind-meeting-in-muskegon?newsgroup_id=1403122010 Developers who are planning an offshore wind farm in Lake Michigan near Mason and Oceana counties will meet privately with Muskegon-area officials Monday to discuss possibilities along that area of the lakeshore. text/html 2010-03-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.windsorstar.com/business/Battle+lines+drawn+lake+turbine+issue/2674844/story.html A Leamington-based company that is proposing to put 700 wind turbines in lakes Erie and St. Clair has hired a high-profile Michigan public relations strategist and former spokesman for the mayor of Detroit. text/html 2010-03-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.examiner.com/SXSW Illinois Senate Bill 2549 was approved unanimously. This bill now makes its way to the IL. House of Representatives where if it is passed, it will make IL the first state in the Great Lakes region to allow the collection of rainwater for non-potable water uses. text/html 2010-03-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.jsonline.com/news/opinion/87395902.html With two of the Great Lakes lapping the Wisconsin's shores, water supply shouldn't be a problem. But appearances are deceiving. It's time for the state Legislature to approve a bill protecting groundwater supplies and better regulating them in sensitive areas. text/html 2010-03-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/new_york_power_authority_hears.html It appears no wind turbines will be built in Lake Ontario off Oswego and Jefferson counties. New York Power Authority President Richard M. Kessel said if Oswego and Jefferson counties don't want the project, it won't be built there. text/html 2010-03-12T08:05:50-04:00 http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/ontarios-clean-water-tech-cluster/ In a major speech on future policy directions, Ontario's government has announced plans to position the province as North America's "clean water technology capital."