The Great Lakes and Saint Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact (HF 110) will reportedly be up for a vote before the full House body tomorrow (Thursday).
Posts Categorized: Great Lakes
Quaggas come to Minnesota
It is something that I didn’t want to read about, but like a slow motion car crash you could see it coming. The Duluth News Tribune has reported that Minnesota now has Quagga mussels.
Low Tide on the North Coast and New Commissioners
I took a long weekend up to the South Shore of Lake Superior to visit a friend and it seems we got some new commissioners while I was out. Recommend on Facebook Share on google plus Tweet about it
Water Propheting
Lame attempt at a clever headline? Yes. But that doesn’t make the topic of privatizing water and the people who talk about it any less important (though the expression “privatizing water” doesn’t exactly make it sexy either). The cover issue of this week’s Pulse Magazine is all about bottled water and the commodification of a public good. It… Read more »
Cleveland: Invasive species in my heart.
Here’s to Cleveland!
Shoot first, ask for public comment later?
The U.S. Coast Guard announced in August that it had identified a few locations in the Great Lakes where it wanted to practice shooting things to better protect the homeland. It already does this on occassion, but since it wanted to make the zones permanently available, it began a process for public comment (each time… Read more »
Great Lakes Town Hall
MEP’s Northeast Program Coordinator Julie O’Leary is a guest author this week on the Great Lakes Town Hall website (http://www.greatlakestownhall.org/), a space on the web dedicated to facilitating public discussions from people around the Great Lakes. Julie has begun her week of postings with an interesting look at Minnesota’s relationship to the largest lake in the world…. Read more »