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Mayor Daley Shows Support For Rep. Dave Camp’s Bill

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 20:43:48 +0000

The Permanent Prevention of Asian Carp Act received support from a welcome and some might say, unlikely, person this week –Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, who has weighed in on the latest and most important discussion in the Asian Carp crisis.…

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Supreme Court Rejects Second Attempt to Close Chicago Locks

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:05:54 +0000

The Supreme Court once again decided not to close the locks as a temporary way to halt the advance of Asian carp into the Great Lakes. The courts will still be deciding whether or not to reopen the century old…

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Waiting to Act Until Carp is Netted a Flawed Policy

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 14:30:37 +0000

Trying to net an Asian carp in the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal is proving as illusive as Osama Bin Laden in the caves of Torre Bora – still, that doesn’t mean we should lull ourselves into complacency and assume…

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Long-Range Thinking Could Save Chicago From Asian Carp Catastrophe

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:21:17 +0000

The Chicago Tribune ran a story about the economic damage that closing the locks would cause to the cities summer tourist industry. The Army Corps is considering limiting the number of times the locks are opened and closed to…

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Carpageddon Devours GLRI Funds

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:26:34 +0000

If it wasn’t bad enough that the Federal plan for dealing with the carp is short sighted, now Carpageddon is eating into the historic Great Lakes Restoration Initiative funding. The Feds are paying for their $78.5 million battle plan (weak…

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Michigan AG Asks Court To Reconsider Lock Closure; Study Shows Illinois Exaggerated Economic Impact

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:24:45 +0000

Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox has filed a new motion with the US Supreme Court asking for an immediate injunction to close Chicago-area locks because the Court did not have all the information (ie that Carp eDNA was already in…

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White House Summit on Asian Carp Could Get Crowded

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:01:17 +0000

Attorney Generals from five Great Lakes states have asked to be at the table when the Administration holds a summit to discuss the Asian Carp crisis. AGs from Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin want a chance to express regional…

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Carp eDNA in Lake Makes Meeting with the President More than Necessary

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 12:33:55 +0000

The Asian Carp eDNA has been found in the Calumet Harbor at the mouth of Lake Michigan, past the O’Brien Locks and the Electric Barrier, meanwhile the Supreme Court has failed to force the closure of the locks and…

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US Supreme Court Makes No Move to Stop Asian Carp

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 13:48:30 +0000

For the second time in two weeks, the US Supreme Court chose not to deal with the state of Michigan’s request for an injunction to close the locks that threaten to let the Asian Carp into Lake Michigan via the…

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News Reports Accuse MidWest of Hysterical React to Asian Carp

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:27:46 +0000

Hysterical? Questionable DNA? Ever seen a 100 plus pound flying fish? Even if scientists didn’t find fish DNA beyond the Electric Barrier in the Chicago Sanitary and Shipping Canal -just miles from the entry to Lake Michigan (which they did)-…

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Michigan Sues Illinios Over Carp

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 20:39:03 +0000

It is now official, Michigan is suing to force the closure of the O’Brien Lock and Dam in the Calumet-Sag Channel, the Chicago Controlling Works in the Illinois River and the permanent seperation of the artificial link between the Mississippi…

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The Worst Case Scenario

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:12:22 +0000

Surely, you’ve seen the Worst Case Scenario books that explain how to get out of tragic situations like a superhero, well; the manuals are mum about how to keep giant Asian Carp out of the Great Lakes. On Friday, government…

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Russian Roulette with a Carp

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:16:52 +0000

Today, we have a temporary solution to a permanent problem posed by Asian Carp that are threatening to enter the Great Lakes via the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. At the cost of $9 million dollars Congress has an electric…

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Sandbag ‘Em

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:39:47 +0000

Those pesky carp are so intent on getting into Lake Michigan – their Golden Gate to the Great Lakes system – that they are willing to hurl themselves from the Des Plaines River into the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal…

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A New Deal Could Keep the Terrible Asian Carp Away

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:03:47 +0000

A century ago, when the sage and wise in Chicago decided to reverse the flow of the Chicago River to keep their poop out of their drinking water (i.e., Lake Michigan) the dreaded Asian Carp were still in Asia.…

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A $20 Billion Carp Barrier

Tiffany Danitz Pache — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 14:27:37 +0000

Tucked inside the massive $21 billion Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) reauthorization is $9 million for the Corps of Engineers to construct and maintain a permanent barrier that will keep non-native Asian carp…

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House Passes Asian Carp barrier Provisions

Jordan Lubetkin — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:37:46 +0000

The House of Representatives today overwhelmingly (395 – 25) passed the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA) – a gigantic bill that authorizes billions of dollars for Army Corps of Engineers projects. The bill includes a number of Great Lakes provisions.…

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Biggert and Durbin Take Action

Jordan Lubetkin — Fri, 19 Jan 2007 18:40:12 +0000

Because Congress has never fully authorized the carp barrier project, the region has had to scramble for funding for years to keep it operational. With Asian carp knocking on the door of the Great Lakes, it’s time to take action.…

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Carp on Video

Jordan Lubetkin — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:41:40 +0000

Asian carp are making their way toward the Great Lakes and we don’t want ‘em! A recent CBC video documents a week spent boating from the Mississippi River to the Illinois River (where Asian carp make-up nine out of…

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All you could ever want to know about Asian carp

Jordan Lubetkin — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 18:44:01 +0000

In a special series called “Chaos Uncorked”, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reporter Dan Egan has clearly and compellingly laid out the threat posed to the Great Lakes by Asian carp.

This is a must read.

Part one: http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=519063
Part

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Asian Carp Barrier Act

Jordan Lubetkin — Sun, 01 Jan 2006 18:37:09 +0000

A monster is knocking at the door of the Great Lakes. We’re looking to Congress to bolt that door shut for good. After escaping from fish farms along the southern Mississippi River, Asian carp have been heading toward the Great…

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