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Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.9 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.9 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus on International Joint Commission Activities
E. Richmond Olson (Canadian . Commissioner) spoke about the differences between this meeting and those of the past, and outlined the reasons for change. This meeting represents a radical departure in format from earlier ones, both in location and format. A conversational discussion is proposed rather than simply presenting the reports of the Boards, as in earlier meetings. Here also, copies of the (1983) reports were sent for your consideration in advance of this meeting.
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.9 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.9 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus on International Joint Commission Activities
The following article combines elements in three speeches presented by Commissioner E. Richmond Olson between October 1982 and February 1983 as he concluded the period he served as Chairman, for Canada, of the Commission. All dealt in part with the important concept of community and the evolving roles which citizens and institutions can and must play to build a society more equitable to individuals and more in harmony with the ecosystem.
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.8 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.8 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus on International Joint Commission Activities
When the International Joint Commission meets in Indianapolis November 15 — 17 those who attend will note some innovations. One is a theme, which will continue in the future: Great Lakes Connections - people’s connections with the Lakes, land drainage connections with the Lakes, institutional connections, economic connections, recreation connections...the list is endless. Further, the International Joint Commission is the one continuing link connecting the people of Canada and the United States in the Great Lakes clean—up effort...and IJC can be your “Great Lakes Connection."
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.8 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.8 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
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The lnternational Joint Commission held its 1982 Meeting on the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, November 16 in Windsor, Ontario at Cleary Auditorium. Representatives of Great Lakes Basin citizen organizations, industry, government, the media and interested individuals from the immediate area listened as Great Lakes Water Quality Board and Science Advisory Board members summarized the work of the past year. In addition, many who could not spend the day in reporting sessions visited the environmental exhibition held in conjunction with the meeting. Thirty four organizations participated in the 1982 exhibition. (See page 15).
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.8 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.8 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus on International Joint Commission Activities
The latest event was the Midwest Governors’ Conference at Mackinac Island, Michigan, June 10-1 1. The eight States and the Provinces of Ontario and Quebec were represented. Eight resolutions were adopted by the conference addressing: 1) Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement; 2) Great Lakes water quality; 3) diversions; 4) control of consumptive uses of Great Lakes water; 5) Great Lakes institutional arrangements; 6) $00 Locks; 7) Great Lakes Cargo Marketing Corporation, and 8) maritime cost recovery and user charges.
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.8 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.8 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus on International Joint Commission Activities
On March 9, 1982, the Chairman of the United States Section of the International Joint Commission, Robert C. McEwen, presented the following testimony in Washington, DC. to the House Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture, Research and the Environment. He spoke for the Commission at a hearing on HR. 3600, the proposed Great Lakes Protection Act.
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.7 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.7 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus on International Joint Commission Activities
No abstract provided.
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.7 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.7 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus on International Joint Commission Activities
No abstract provided.
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.7 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus On Great Lakes Water Quality (Issn 0711-0855): Vol.7 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus on International Joint Commission Activities
No abstract provided.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.7 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.7 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
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No abstract provided.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.6 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.6 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
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No abstract provided.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.6 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.6 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
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No abstract provided.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.6 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.6 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
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No abstract provided.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.6 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.6 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
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No abstract provided.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.5 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.5 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
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No abstract provided.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.5 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.5 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
Focus on International Joint Commission Activities
The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement requires the development of remedial programs and other measures to prevent or reduce the input of pollutants to the Great Lakes System and compatible regulatory requirements in both the United States and Canada directed towards achievement of the water quality objectives.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.5 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.5 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
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No abstract provided.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.5 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.5 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
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No abstract provided.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.4 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.4 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
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Editor: Mr. Sugarman, Focus readers are curious about the new United States Chairman of the International Joint Commission. What particular knowledge, experience and perspectives do you bring to the Commission? R. Sugarman: First, I'd like to make it clear, I am not an expert on the Great Lakes. In fact, I didn’t know much about them until I began preparing for this assignment. But, since the beginning of this year, I’ve done a lot of reading—a catch-up course, so to speak.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.4 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.4 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
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On April 27, Robert J. Sugarman was sworn in as a new Commissioner of the International Joint Commission. He has succeeded Henry P. Smith, lll, as Chairman of the United States Section, following Mr. Smith's recent resignation. Mr. Sugarman is a graduate of Harvard Law School, Stanford University (History) and Brown University (Classics). He is a partner in the Philadelphia law firm of Dechert, Price and Rhodes and on the Legal Advisory Committee of the Environmental Defense Fund.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.3 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.3 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
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Many of you may ask that question next spring if you do not return the form on the back inside page of this issue. Future issues will be sent only to people who express interest in receiving them. A completely new mailing list will be generated from returned forms. Our mailing list has grown from 2,500 to nearly 15,000 names since Volume I, Issue l was published in the fall of 1974. It is now time to test whether everyone who gets Focus wants to continue receiving it.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.3 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.3 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
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During its presentation to the HO the Great Lakes Research Advisory Board warned that effective management and restoration of the Great Lakes requires more than continued emphasis on chemical and physical measures of “water quality". The Board recommended adoption of a broader holistic approach, the concept of "ecosystem quality,” which considers biological and societal measurements in addition to the currently stressed chemical and physical measurements. The Board elaborated that the use of environmental maps of the Great Lakes would improve managers’ and planners’ under standing of the ecological system. Members recommended a pilot effort to initiate environmental mapping in a …
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.3 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.3 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
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PLUARG is not just another in the daily dose of alphabet soup that Americans and Canadians are faced with in a seeminly endless barrage of acronyms. PLUARG is the acronym for Pollution From Land Use Activities Reference Group, a joint U.S.-Canadian effort aimed at dealing with pollution from non-point sources and its effect on water quality in the Great Lakes.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.3 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.3 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
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The 1972 Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement required that the Parties conduct a comprehensive review of its operation and effectness during the fifth year. In its Fourth Annual Report, dated September 16, 1976, the international Joint Commission stated it would prepare a special report on various provisions of the Agreement for consideration by the Governments in their review.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.2 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.2 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
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If you live near either Lake Superior or Lake Huron, chances are there is a copy of the Up- per Lakes Reference Group’s Final Report within a few miles of your home. Copies of Volume l, the summary document, have been sent to all the libraries listed at the end of this article. When they are printed, early in the spring, copies of the 1200-page Volumes ii and ill, containing details about Lake Superior and Lake Huron, will be sent to many of the same libraries.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.2 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.2 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
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On July 21, in Windsor, the Great Lakes Water Quality Board presented its Fourth Annual Report to the International Joint Commission. Recommendations to the HO include the adoption of specific water quality objectives for a number of pesticides, persistent toxic sub- stances, metals and some physical characteristics.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.2 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.2 Iss.2, Uwindsor Administrator
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The I.J.C. will hear the presentations of the four major institutions reporting to it under the Water Quality Agreement from July 19-22 in Windsor, Ontario. This four-day event marks the first time that the Commission has opened such a meeting to the media and general public. The meetings will be held at the Cleary Auditorium and Convention Centre.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.2 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.2 Iss.1, Uwindsor Administrator
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In Chicago, Illinois, November 19-21, the Environmental Protection Agency, in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture, Council on Environmental Quality, Department of Health, Education and Welfare and the Department of the interior, sponsored a symposium on polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s). Over 600 scientists, politicians, industrialists and environmentalists attended. What led the agencies to sponsor the conference and why so many people attended should become clear to you as you read through this article.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.1 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.1 Iss.4, Uwindsor Administrator
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The Great Lakes Water Quality Board presented its Third Annual Report to the Com- mission July 30, 1975. Members provided the Commission with an assessment of water quality of the lakes and connecting channels and a review of the municipal, industrial and other remedial programs being implemented to achieve the objectives of the 1972 United States/Canada Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement. In addition, the Board presented new and revised specific water quality objectives and a basin-wide surveillance pro- gram for the Commission‘s consideration.
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.1 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
Great Lakes Focus On Water Quality: Vol.1 Iss.3, Uwindsor Administrator
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The Upper Lakes Reference Group represents a unique approach in water quality studies -— the characterization of two large bodies of fresh water which are for the most part not degraded. The studies are directed more toward protection than rehabilitation; toward action, not reaction.