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Energy & Fossil Fuels
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Usually associated with air quality problems, the burning of fossil fuels can have disastrous impacts on water quality. Contaminants like mercury fall from smokestacks and build up in the food chain. Mercury pollution has affected fish in every region of the Great Lakes Basin. The plants themselves can create problems – intake pipes suck up fish, while cooling water discharges release hot water into the lake that affects the natural environment. It is important to remember that many industries on the Great Lakes generate power by burning fossil fuels, not just power plants. This category also includes articles about our energy system, including alternatives to fossil fuels.
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St. Catharines Hydro Generation Inc. has submitted a proposal for the construction of a hydroelectric dam across Twelve Mile Creek near downtown St. Catharines, Ontario. Twelve Mile Creek flows north towards Lake Ontario and provides habitat for the American eel, an endangered species, as well as more than twenty other cold-water fish species. A recreational trail runs along... (more)
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PULASKI — Opponents of a proposal for offshore wind power projects raised a rallying cry at a meeting Wednesday night at the H. Douglas Barclay Courthouse.
About 80 people from Oswego, Jefferson and Wayne counties attended the meeting organized by the Joint Commission for the Preservation of Lake Ontario Communities, a coalition blessed by the boards of legislators in... (more)
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New York State
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Pulaski, NY -- About 80 people who live on or near the shore of Lake Ontario in Oswego and Jefferson counties turned out Wednesday night in Pulaski to say they do not want New York Power Authority putting wind turbines in Lake Ontario.
The Joint Commission for the Preservation of Lake Ontario Communities and other area residents said the wind turbines would hurt tourism, a... (more)
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The windswept Great Lakes hold huge promise for wind power, experts say. But a plan for an offshore wind farm in Lake Michigan is raising local ire.
Pentwater, Mich.
Halfway up Lake Michigan's eastern shore, wooded bluffs rise next to dunes, ice-fringed winter beaches, and steel-gray water stretching as far as the eye can see.
Pentwater, a resort town whose year-round... (more)
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To provide further clarity and transparency on the Renewable Energy Approval, the ministry has prepared six draft technical bulletins.
These bulletins are intended to assist proponents of renewable energy projects in preparing reports for the Renewable Energy Approval submission and in interpreting the regulation.
The draft technical bulletins will also assist the... (more)
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A New York Power Authority representative scheduled to speak at a meeting of a fledgling community action committee has backed out of the engagement.
The Wednesday meeting at the H. Douglas Barclay Courthouse, Pulaski, still will take place, James H. McGowan said.
The Syracuse-based attorney said the group, while still without a name, has seven members from Oswego and... (more)
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Two members of the Oswego County Legislature’s Economic Development and Planning Committee opposed moving a resolution to the full floor in opposition of an offshore wind tower project proposed by the New York Power authority.
NYPA has issued a request for proposals for the construction, sitting and operation of wind turbine facilities in Lake Erie and/or Lake Ontario’s... (more)
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New York State
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Pure Energy Resources, LLC has registered Chris Benedetti to represent its interests at Queen’s Park.
The following departments in which Chris Benedetti will be focusing lobby to are:
Government Wide
Chris Benedetti will be lobbying the following topics:
Conservation
Energy
Environment
Forestry
Government... (more)
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Earlier this month, the public consultation period for the first phase of a Ministry of Natural Resources policy review drew to a close. The Ministry was soliciting comments from the public about four different policies and procedures that outline how the natural resources department should respond to wind energy development proposals: the Windpower Policy, the Windpower... (more)
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