Line 5 study: Ice makes oil spills harder to detect, easier to contain

ByGreat Lakes Commission 6 January 2023

What happens if oil spills under ice in freshwater? Researchers have determined the ice can contain the oil, making for an easier cleanup — but it’s harder to detect. Read the full story by the Cheboygan Daily Tribune.

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Stoney Creek beach’s water quality questioned

ByGreat Lakes Commission 30 March 2022

The Ontario city of Stoney Creek will study whether it should classify a stretch of Lake Ontario shoreline between Green and Millen roads as a public beach and test the water for bacteria during the swimming season. Read the full story by The Hamilton Spectator. Read the full story

Land trust to buy Blind Bay parcel to block proposed CBP facility

ByGreat Lakes Commission 15 April 2022

The Thousand Islands Land Trust reached an agreement with Blind Bay Associates to buy the property on the St. Lawrence River that the U.S. Customs and Border Protection was eyeing for a new facility, but that they deemed environmentally sensitive. Read the full story by WWNY-TV – Carthage, NY. Read the full story

Lake Michigan beaches are getting replenished with dredged sand

ByGreat Lakes Commission 8 June 2022

The U.S. Army Corps is shoring up eroded beaches this summer along Lake Michigan using dredged sand from harbor mouths. Read the full story by MLive. Read the full story

Legislation would help Michigan communities access new water funds

ByGreat Lakes Commission 25 March 2022

Michigan communities could more easily access new infrastructure money under legislation that aims to modernize state programs which fund, among other things, the removal of lead service lines from water systems. Read the full story by MLive. Read the full story

Migration of unpopular cormorants underway

ByGreat Lakes Commission 4 October 20215 October 2021

The cormorant population was once dangerously low in the Lake Erie area due to DDT byproducts. Now cormorants are abundant and there is discussion about culling cormorants to protect habitat. Read the full story by the Sandusky Register. Read the full story

Islanders throw wrench into company’s Line 5 camera surveillance plans

ByGreat Lakes Commission 22 December 2021

Officials on two Lake Huron islands denied Enbridge permission to install cameras to keep tabs on shipping traffic through the Straits of Mackinac and across the path of its underwater Line 5 dual pipelines – in one case at least partly because of controversy surrounding the company itself. Read the full story by MLive. Read…

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