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Oil Company Looks To Great Lakes As Shipping Demand Booms
2013-12-27 22:10:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Public Radio: North Dakota and western Canada are producing crude oil faster than it can be shipped to refineries. Rail car manufacturers can't make new tank cars fast enough, and new pipeline proposals face long delays over environmental concerns. So energy companies are looking for new ways to get the heavy crude to market. One proposed solution is to ship the oil by barge over the Great Lakes but it's a controversial one. Crews are working around the clock in North Dakota, where there's a lot of oil under...
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Failing culvert prompts sealing of Great Salt Lake's North Arm
2013-12-19 02:57:57| Railroads - Topix.net
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah - State and federal authorities are poised to issue draft permits to Union Pacific Railroad to "temporarily" close the remaining culvert on its rock-fill causeway across the Great Salt Lake, sealing the final mixing point between the lake and its high-salinity North Arm.
Great Lakes Demonstration Farm Network Announced
2013-12-13 13:08:00| National Hog Farmer
Source: Great Lakes Commission The Lower Fox River Watershed, just south of Green Bay, WI, will be home to a network of farms that will demonstrate the best, leading-edge conservation practices to reduce phosphorus entering Green Bay and Lake Michigan. The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and the Great Lakes Commission (GLC) have announced an agreement to establish a Great Lakes Demonstration Farm Network, the first of its kind, in Wisconsin. To initiate this network, the GLC will begin work with the Brown County Land & Water Conservation Department and Outagamie County Land Conservation Department to identify the farms in the Lower Fox Watershed. read more
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Great Lakes Ecosystems Threatened by Food Scarcity
2013-12-12 20:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
EcoWatch: Declines of the food resources that feed lake organisms are likely causing dramatic changes in the Great Lakes, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) study. USGS scientists and partners found that since 1998, water clarity has been increasing in a majority of the Great Lakes, while phytoplankton (the microscopic water organisms that feed all other animals), native invertebrates and prey fish have been declining. These food web changes fundamentally affect the ecosystems valuable resources...
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Senators want check of oil pipeline beneath lakes
2013-12-12 00:14:18| Energy - Topix.net
Three U.S. senators have asked a federal agency to check on the safety of an oil pipeline that runs beneath Great Lakes waters.
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