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Great Lakes Month in Review: Fracking, ballast and petcoke
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This Great Lakes Month in Review, focuses on fracking, ballast water and petcoke.
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This Great Lakes Month in Review, focuses on fracking, ballast water and petcoke.
Each month Echo commentator Gary Wilson recaps news from around the basin.
This week, Gary reflects on Great Lakes Week, the International Joint Commission’s recommendations to fight algal blooms and water use in fracking.
James Clift, policy director at Michigan Environmental Council discusses the environmental issues around fracking, including water usage and methane gas emissions.
This video is among those produced by students at Kent State University’s Stark campus under the direction of biology and journalism faculty.
It is part of a multidisciplinary study of the local environment called OurWaterWebs and based south of Cleveland.
The city of Holland in Michigan is looking to diversify energy sources after a failed attempt to expand a coal plant. City officials are pushing for a new natural gas plant. Critics say gas is not an environmentally-friendly choice.
Supporters say the practice creates jobs and improves the economy. Critics say that if not properly regulated it threatens groundwater, the source of drinking water for half of the state’s population.