Water
McGuinty Government promises a Great Lakes Protection Act
Submitted by Dan McDermott on Tue, 2012-01-31 13:18By Dan McDermott, Chapter Director
Premier Dalton McGuinty’s commitment to enact a Great Lakes Protection Act (GLPA) was the one new environmental commitment put forward by the Liberals during last fall’s election. The environmental community responded positively to the pledge while noting that the funding component mentioned by the Premier was a modest one. It was also noted that the commitment contained no specifics as to what McGuinty saw as priority Great Lakes issues.... Read more »
New York's Little Revolution - H2O protection & fracking
Submitted by Kristina Jackson on Tue, 2012-01-31 13:12How the state’s fight for clean water is reshaping its political landscape.
by Ellen Cantarow... Read more »
Great Lakes–Mississippi River Separation is Possible, Practical and Preventive
Submitted by Guest on Tue, 2012-01-31 12:56Study shows Canadian waters can be protected from an Asian Carp Invasion
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For immediate release
Tuesday, January 31, 2012... Read more »
Progress Rpt on Wetlands Research (McMaster University)
This report is a progress report on the research funded by Sierra Club carried out from May to October in 2011. The three main projects share an overarching theme that examines threats to coastal biodiversity because of changes in the hydrologic regime of Lakes Huron and Erie.
The first project provides an initial glimpse of how northern pike utilize wetland and nearshore habitat in Tadenac Bay and the surrounding region.
The second is a comparison of home ranges of the Blanding's turtle (species at risk) in two protected areas (Beausoleil Island of Georgian Bay Island National Park and Rondeau Bay Provincial Park) that have very different landscape features and experience different stresses. Since this is the first documented study of a Blanding's population on an island, a sub--‐project has been carried out to determine if turtles select for specific habitats before, during and after nesting as has been suggested by the literature.
The third project examines the effects of rain effects and agricultural practices on the water quality of first--‐order streams in the Beaver River watershed.
Click on the pdf attachment below to see the 14 pg. McMaster University report
Sierra Club Great Lakes Policy on Asian Carp
Submitted by Kristina Jackson on Mon, 2012-01-23 15:59
Final as approved by Sierra Club (US & Canada) on 5 December 2011
Whereas the Asian carp (bighead, silver, grass and black) have invaded extensive portions of the United States waters and the silver and bighead carps present a serious and immediate threat of invasion into the Great Lakes ecosystem, via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal; and
Whereasthe Asian carp have caused ecological devastation in the Illinois and Mississippi River systems in specific river sections where they have become well established—95 percent of the biomass in some river sections is composed of Asian carp; and
Whereasthe Asian carp cause this devastation through highly efficient reproduction and filter feeding that effectively removes the plankton that serve as the base of the food chain—without enough plankton to support forage fish, shellfish and other species, native species decline ; and... Read more »
