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New York State is the only American state that borders Lake Ontario. Major cities on the U.S. side of Lake Ontario (the "south shore") include Rochester, population 220,000 and Oswego, population 18,000. Outside of these urban areas, the dominant land use on the south shore is rural, with many farms and smaller towns. There are two separate nuclear facilities here, at Ginna and Oswego.

Lake Ontario Waterkeeper Partners with G-Team for to clean up Toronto’s Beaches through Swim Guide
January 23rd, 2012 
   
[TORONTO] – Lake Ontario Waterkeeper (http://www.waterkeeper.ca) and G-Team (http://www.groupon.com/g-team), the philanthropic arm of Groupon, announce the launch of a local campaign to clean up Toronto’s beaches.The Swim Guide campaign will be available on Groupon Toronto’s G-Team page beginning on Tuesday, January 24 and running through Thursday, January 26.... (more)
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Fracking debate heats up in Monroe County | Democrat and Chronicle | democratandchronicle.com
January 14th, 2012 
   
Days before the New Year, Brighton became the first town in Monroe County to enact a moratorium on hydraulic fracturing, the controversial process of injecting a high-volume, high-pressure mix of water, sand and chemicals deep into the ground in order to extract natural gas from ancient shale deposits.Could the town of Rush be next? Read the full story by Leo Roth from... (more)
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We need your help, a letter from Waterkeeper Mark Mattson
December 20th, 2011 
   
I first swam as a child in the waves at the eastern shore of Lake Ontario. Here, I learned to catch wild, wriggling fish with my brothers and sisters and cousins and friends. I quenched my thirst with the cold blue water of this Great Lake.My lifelong love of water and my personal connection to Lake Ontario inspired me to become your Waterkeeper ten years ago. With your... (more)
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Fracking sparks earthquake concerns | Democrat and Chronicle | democratandchronicle.com
November 16th, 2011 
   
Steve Orr in the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle writes about the growing number of connections between fracking and earthquakes, November 16, 2011: The surge in hydrofracking has meant a surge in injection wells to dispose of drilling wastewater — and those disposal wells are increasingly being linked to small earthquakes. Clusters of "induced" quakes in the Dallas-Fort... (more)
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Radioactive site citizen board is back in action » Local News » Niagara Gazette
November 13th, 2011 
   
Timothy Chipp in the Niagara Gazette writes about a NY State radioactive waste site on November 12, 2011: The LOOW site was established after the federal government seized 7,200 acres of land in 1941, in the area now occupied partially by the Lewiston-Porter School District, for the purposes of creating the explosive trinitrotoluene (TNT). Production lasted only nine months in... (more)
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UR receives grant to study pollution in river | Democrat and Chronicle | democratandchronicle.com
October 19th, 2011 
   
Because of high levels of pollutants and overfishing, the sturgeon had long disappeared from the northern part of the Genesee River that empties into Lake Ontario.But many of the 1,900 sturgeon that were put into this stretch of the Genesee beginning in 2003 seem to have done well — a sign, federal and local officials say, that cleanup efforts are starting to pay... (more)
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Report: New York Power authority to halt Great Lakes wind project | syracuse.com
September 20th, 2011 
   
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A published report says New York energy officials are shelving plans for a major offshore wind project in Lake Erie or Lake Ontario. (more)
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Future of GLOW project appears uncertain
September 20th, 2011 
   
A plan for the development of the nation’s first freshwater wind farm in Lake Ontario or Lake Erie, which drew opposition from Oswego County officials last year, might have been scrapped for good, according to Sen. George Maziarz, R-Newfane.Maziarz, the chairman of the New York State Senate Energy Committee, has claimed that through sources at the New York Power Authority... (more)
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Proposal for wind farm on lake is shelved
September 16th, 2011 
   
ALBANY -- An ambitious plan for what was to be the nation's first freshwater wind farm with as many as 150 large turbines in Lake Erie off Buffalo's shoreline is being halted, a state lawmaker with firsthand knowledge said Thursday.Less than two years after the New York Power Authority unveiled its wind turbine plan as a major generator of green energy and jobs in Western... (more)
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Report may clear Lockport of blame in beach closings – Lockport – The Buffalo News
September 16th, 2011 
   
LOCKPORT — It appears discharges from the City of Lockport wastewater treatment plant may not to be to blame for the frequent closing of an Olcott beach this summer.Instead, Niagara County Health Department officials said Thursday that suspicion now points to seagull droppings on old piers flanking the beach as the source of bacteria that caused eight beach closings in... (more)
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