GLIN Daily News RSS Feed for New York http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ 2008-05-12T14:01:05-04:00 http://www.great-lakes.net/news/ http://www.glin.net/news/rss.gif text/html 2008-05-09T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/342632.html President Bush on Thursday signed a bill creating a national heritage area in Niagara Falls. text/html 2008-05-07T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008805070360 When Charles Knauf was a boy growing up in Irondequoit, Lake Ontario was something to be seen -- but otherwise avoided. text/html 2008-05-07T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/niagaracounty/story/340721.html More than 120 Great Lakes policymakers and interested parties turned out for the first annual meeting of the Great Lakes Wind Collaborative, which concluded today in Buffalo, N.Y. Existing wind mapping models show many areas along and in the Great Lakes have good promise for wind generation. text/html 2008-05-06T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20080506/NEWS05/763405873 Alliance Energy is proposing to generate up to 110 megawatts of electricity using underwater currents from the St. Lawrence River. text/html 2008-05-02T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.mpnnow.com/news/x1804951328 Canal Corp., which operates the Erie, Oswego, Champlain and Cayuga-Seneca canals, had proposed reducing open hours by five hours this season in order to cut its costs. text/html 2008-04-29T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080429/NEWS01/804290336/1002/NEWS As public information sessions begin in western New York on a new proposal for regulating Lake Ontario water levels, the point of contention remains a regulatory plan that's officially not even under consideration. text/html 2008-04-25T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.standard-freeholder.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1000896 The Ontario government has joined environmentalists and New York State officials in rejecting the International Joint Commission's Plan 2007 for managing water levels along Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River. text/html 2008-04-25T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/article/20080424/NEWS03/209274348 Although about 1,500 walleye pike were found dead in Little Sandy Creek last week because of a chemical treatment for sea lampreys, plans for treatment of South Sandy Creek today will proceed. text/html 2008-04-22T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080422/NEWS01/804220338/1002/NEWS A fish kill discovered on the shores of Irondequoit Bay could have been caused by a viral disease first noticed in New York two years ago, an official from the state Department of Environmental Conservation said Monday. text/html 2008-04-22T08:05:50-04:00 http://www.buffalonews.com/149/story/328913.html Experts and politicians can argue about the best way government can help Buffalo improve itself. But there's no doubt that a Clean Water Act worthy of the name would go a long way toward stemming its tide of decline.