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Great Lakes Energy News Roundup: Lake Erie wind turbines worry anglers, Enbridge replacing St. Clair River pipeline, what next for Michigan and Minnesota renewables

Catch the latest in Great Lakes energy news in Great Lakes Now’s fortnightly energy-related headline roundup.

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Fisheries Update: New Canadian law improves habitat protections and adds Indigenous consultation

The new version of the law restores protections that were removed by the previous government in 2012.

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New York suppliers could avoid drinking water violations under plan

Environmental advocacy groups are criticizing New York’s plan to allow water suppliers to delay being hit with formal violations for exceeding the state’s incoming limits for industrial chemicals in public drinking water.

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Minnesota regulators put Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline back on track

The state Public Utilities Commission voted 3-1 to approve an updated environmental impact statement for the $2.6 billion project, finding that the new review adequately addressed the impacts of a potential spill in the Lake Superior watershed.

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Polluting with Purpose: In the wilderness with Great Lakes Now at Canada’s Experimental Lakes Area

Here’s Program Director Sandra Svoboda’s account of field producing the “Polluting with Purpose” segment for the Great Lakes Now monthly show.