Ten years after becoming law, the Great Lakes Compact designed to prevent mass diversions to water-thirsty regions of the country has been successful in preventing them.
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Stocking Sturgeon on Lake Erie
Thousands of people – from young children to the elderly – helped stock Lake Erie’s first batch of freshly-minted lake sturgeon last week.
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A Great Lakes Moment from John Hartig
Hamilton Harbour is a 5,313-acre embayment located at the west end of Lake Ontario. It has over a 100-year history of industrial and urban development. In the middle of the 19th century, the Great Western Railway was founded in the city, making Hamilton the center of Canadian industry.
Posted inAlgae Blooms, Climate, News, Protect, Science, Technology & Research, Water Quality
Lake Superior rapidly warming
The robust lake is heating up faster than the other Great Lakes The Great Lakes are running a fever, and Lake Superior is heating up the fastest. There’s no single […]
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Great Lakes execs tout economic success at annual meeting
Shipping is a “pillar” for quality of life; Michigan benefits Celebrating the success of the region’s economy was the main event as Great Lakes commissioners gathered in Indianapolis last week […]
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Going Green on the Great Lakes
Maria Gallucci is the 2017-2018 Energy Journalism Fellow at the University of Texas – Austin. She spent the last year of her life in intense research and study of the maritime industry and its potential to transform energy use to cleaner fuels to become more sustainable for the future.
Posted inAbout Great Lakes Now, Enbridge Line 5 and Other Pipelines, Energy, Industry, Lake Huron, Lake Michigan, Michigan, News, Politics, Region, The States, Who We Are and What We Do
What did reporters ask about the New Enbridge Line 5 Tunnel Agreement?
State officials briefed reporters on a conference call today about the agreement with Enbridge Inc. for pipeline improvements, and then the reporters had plenty of questions. Here is an edited […]
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The Line 5 Decision: It’s a tunnel
A utility tunnel buried into the bedrock 100 feet under the Straits of Mackinac would replace the existing Enbridge Line 5 pipeline under a preliminary plan announced today by Gov. Rick Snyder’s administration.
Posted inClimate, Drinking Water, Flint, News, Protect, Science, Technology & Research, Water Quality
Digging Deeper into Michigan’s Groundwater and Drinking Water Problems
A webinar collaboration with Circle of Blue, DPTV’s Great Lakes Bureau, and Bridge Magazine On Monday, October 1st, Circle of Blue, DPTV’s Great Lakes Bureau and Bridge Magazine collaborated on […]
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Michigan’s water issues: gains and losses
After the depths of the Flint crisis, unexpected praise: groundwater quality, Line 5 in the spotlight When you’re a water-wealthy state in a water-needy world you’re always in the spotlight […]
