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Related: About this forumConsortium of universities, institutions to meet at U of Michigan to discuss future of Great Lakes
from the Detroit Free Press:
ANN ARBOR The University of Michigan hosts dozens of Great Lakes researchers, advocates and policymakers Wednesday at its Ann Arbor campus for a meeting of the Great Lakes Futures Project.
The consortium of universities and institutions in the U.S. and Canada is developing plans for long-term research projects to protect and restore the Great Lakes.
More than 75 Great Lakes researchers and others are expected to attend this weeks meeting, hosted by the U-M Water Center.
Participants will discuss forces that shaped the Great Lakes region in the past and those that will shape it over the next half-century, including climate change, energy, economics, water quantity, biological and chemical contaminants, invasive species and demographics. ...............(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.freep.com/article/20130106/NEWS06/130106034/University-of-Michigan-Great-Lakes-Futures-Project?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
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Consortium of universities, institutions to meet at U of Michigan to discuss future of Great Lakes (Original Post)
marmar
Jan 2013
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patrice
(47,992 posts)1. I hope that include the GLs' political environment which appears to include hyper Koch activity
in many/most/all (???) states bordering the Great Lakes, i.e. the major source of fresh water in the USA.
valerief
(53,235 posts)2. Garbage. They'll use them to dump garbage. What else does a corporatocracy do?
NoOneMan
(4,795 posts)3. Once it sinks, at least we don't have to look at it anymore
If were going out, the landscape might as well be pleasant
reteachinwi
(579 posts)4. Build a pipeline
and drain them to the west. Or frack them.
http://michigan.sierraclub.org/issues/greatlakes/hydrofracking.html
http://sweetwatervisions.com/Pages/drilling.html