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Great Lakes Senators Call on Feds to Implement Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Maritime Strategy
A group of U.S. Senators from the Great Lakes region sent U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx a letter last week urging his department to take a greater leadership role in the implementation of the first-ever regional strategy for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence maritime transportation system (MTS). The letter, which was led by Senator Gary Peters (MI), and cosigned by Senators Al Franken (MN), Amy Klobuchar (MN), Joe Donnelly (IN), Richard Durbin (IL), Mark Kirk (IL), Debbie Stabenow (MI), Tammy Baldwin (WI), and Robert Casey (PA), calls for DOT to conduct a system-wide analysis to identify maritime barriers across the Great Lakes to help determine where future investments to the system should be focused.
The MTS, which was developed by the Conference of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers, serves as a strategy to help grow the region's maritime sector, which already contributes more than $30 billion to the US and Canadian economies and accounts for more than 220,000 jobs. A copy of the letter can be viewed here.
For more information, contact
Matthew McKenna
, Director of the Great Lakes Washington Program
at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.
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Great Lakes Commission to Host Great Lakes and
St. Lawrence Ballast Water Workshop
On November 16 & 17, the Great Lakes Commission will host a Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Ballast Water Workshop at the Westin Book Cadillac in Detroit, Michigan. The workshop is free to attend, but participants are asked to register here by October 31.
The workshop, which is also being sponsored by the Northeast-Midwest Institute, the Great Lakes Fishery Commission and the Great Lakes Fishery Trust, will focus on the current status of preventing aquatic invasive species introduction and spread through ballast water discharge in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River region, while also providing the opportunity for representatives of federal, state and provincial government, industry, ports, research facilities, environmental groups and other key stakeholders to come together to discuss the challenges and achievements of ballast water management in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River region. A preliminary agenda for the workshop and information on hotel accommodations can be found at the Great Lakes Commission's
website
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For more information, contact
Matthew McKenna
, Director of the Great Lakes Washington Program
at the Northeast-Midwest Institute.
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NEMWI: Strengthening the Region that Sustains the Nation
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