http://www.davedempsey.org/davesblog/ en-us 2006-10-14T07:42:33-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001107.html ...is here.... http://daviddempsey.typepad.com/... Dave 2006-10-14T07:42:33-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001106.html Wisconsin's waters are so basic to life, commerce and culture that they were considered a public trust before statehood. This careful management of Wisconsin waters for the common good was codified as the Public Trust Doctrine by the Northwest Ordinance... Dave 2006-10-10T10:04:33-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001105.html It's increasingly likely that leadership, or lack of same, in the fight to prevent needless Great Lakes water exports will come not from Michigan, the Great Lakes state, but Wisconsin, where diversion fights in two communities loom large. The good... Dave 2006-10-09T07:05:04-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001104.html I am disheartened to see that the environment does not make the Star Tribune's list of key issues in the U.S. Senate race. Politicians must be glad the media rarely force them to address it. It is a huge, pressing... Dave 2006-10-08T23:05:48-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001103.html Way to go, Bay City Times. Dow Chemical Co.'s interest in a dump on the Saginaw-Bay county line for Saginaw River dredgings spoils threatens to blow the whole project apart. The Lone Tree Council is trumpeting memos from the U.S.... Dave 2006-10-06T14:20:39-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001102.html A newly developed environmental group hopes to tackle problems they say plague the Lake Michigan watershed area by specifically targeting instances of pollution and damaged ecosystems. The Lake Michigan Watershed Ecosystem Partnership hosted its first meeting Thursday in Evanston to... Dave 2006-10-06T08:38:55-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001101.html On the eastern shores of several Great Lakes tower the world's largest freshwater dunes...another at risk species. Known as Pigeon Hill, the Lake Michigan dune towered 30 stories high on the south side of Muskegon. Formed over thousands of years,... Dave 2006-10-05T08:39:04-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001100.html EPA: Great Lakes cleanup plan on track By JOHN FLESHER TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. - A comprehensive plan to tackle the Great Lakes' most pressing environmental problems — from invasive species to sewage overflows — is on track despite complaints about... Dave 2006-10-04T18:37:38-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001099.html The water level in Lake Superior is nearing its lowest point in the past century, according to the latest government data. The water level in the world's second-largest lake dropped in September to within 2.5 inches of the record low... Dave 2006-10-04T08:30:44-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001098.html But with experts warning that the Great Lakes, the world’s largest repository of fresh water, could be facing an ecological tipping point from which they may never be able to recover, President Bush cannot ignore a bill sent to his... Dave 2006-10-03T15:21:10-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001097.html Dioxin is one byproduct of burn barrels... HURLEY -- Should the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources' restriction on burn barrels around Lake Superior be more rigidly enforced? Rick Schneider, from the Northwest Regional Planning Commission in Spooner, hopes to get... Dave 2006-10-03T08:27:08-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001096.html As the court case drags on, Nestle is forging ahead with plans to make its Stanton bottling plant the hub of a sprawling water bottling business that is fed by a surrounding network of groundwater wells. The company also bottles... Dave 2006-10-02T08:03:58-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001095.html WAUKESHA - The Waukesha Water Utility hopes to avoid a lengthy process of applying for Lake Michigan water access through a compact needing approval by all the region’s states by arguing its ground water system’s connection to the Great Lakes... Dave 2006-10-01T11:24:16-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001094.html Even though the current President was elected by a much smaller percentage. A Vote Lost in the Smog One person's consensus is another person's split vote, at least in Washington. Last week, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson set... Dave 2006-09-30T13:54:38-05:00 http://www.davedempsey.org/archive2/001093.html What was once called the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is now the Minnesota Ethanol Promotion Authority, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported today. Well, not quite, but -- Buffalo Lake Energy had a problem. Earlier this year, the company feared that... Dave 2006-09-29T21:16:12-05:00