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Great Lakes mayors join forces to adapt to climate change
2014-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CTV: The provincial government is supporting a new program launched by members of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative in an effort to adapt their municipalities to climate change. The one time, $145,000 grant will help develop the Municipal Adaptation and Resilience Service or MARS program. The goal of MARS is to give member municipalities a portal where they can share information to help them adapt and prepare for major environmental events such as storms and flooding. Recent...
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Great Lakes wind controversy blowin' strong
2014-01-01 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Toledo Blade: Wind power is, predictably, generating more controversy each day it grows. No surprise there. Now one of America's fastest-growing forms of new electricity, wind power is no longer a boutique industry. But as the controversy and drama builds toward some sort of crescendo, here's one word you often don't hear: Fascinating. o me, a veteran journalist who's been following the wind power industry longer than it's had a foothold in the Great Lakes region, the national debate evolving over it...
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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