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Welcome to the Great Lakes Commission's collection of sustainable land use web resources. Links to recent relevant news stories are below and you can search the Great Lakes Information Network news archives by using the box at the bottom of the page. Follow the links on the left for issue-specific resources organized by state or province. Environmentalists say Homestead Resort harms Sleeping Bear Dunes wildlife Detroit Free Press (1/23) Environmental advocates say a northwestern Michigan resort is harming wildlife in the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore by spraying partially treated sewage. EDITORIAL: Send us your spent ... nuclear waste? Star Tribune (1/6) The Lake Superior region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula has "the most stable region of granite outcrops in the U.S.," making the area perfect for entombing nuclear waste. Ontario minister attacks Ford’s Port Lands strategy The Globe and Mail (12/12) As Waterfront Toronto embarks on public consultations as part of Mayor Rob Ford’s bid to accelerate Port Lands redevelopment, a senior Ontario cabinet minister has attacked the change in direction, warning that the city risks repeating previous lakeside debacles in its bid to generate cash from land sales. Who will foot bill for cleaner water? The Columbus Dispatch (12/7) The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is still working to figure out who will be required to take potentially expensive steps to reduce pollution caused by fertilizer, manure and sewage that wash into area waterways. Mayor Frank Jackson tries to change history with lakefront plan cleveland.com (11/15) The development of Cleveland's lakefront is a century-old story of piecemeal action and broken promises, but Mayor Frank Jackson thinks he has strategy that could put all that in the past. Higgins: 2011 good year for Buffalo waterfront Wall Street Journal (11/15) A New York state panel overseeing the revitalization of Buffalo's waterfront says 2011 was a year of good progress. Project contact: Victoria Pebbles, vpebbles@glc.org |
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