Category: Infrastructure Modernization

Time to Charge Ahead:
Great Lakes Region Requires Infrastructure to Power EVs

June 2, 2021

By Tom Van Heeke The automotive industry is undergoing profound changes. For its part, General Motors (GM) is on its way to an all-electric future with a plan to have…

Climate Risks and Opportunities Across the Great Lakes: A Path For Green Stormwater Infrastructure

February 23, 2021

By Sanjiv Sinha, Ph.D., PE “Flooding in the Chicago area has been so bad in the past decade that only places ravaged by hurricanes sustain more damage.” So blared the…

Powering Forward: Accelerating the Bi-national Great Lakes Region’s Clean Energy Transition Report

January 25, 2021

The bi-national Great Lakes mega-region, home to 107 million Americans and Canadian and center of the United States-Canada economic partnership, enjoys a multitude of shared sectors and socio-economic strengths, as…

Fragile Infrastructure:
When Dams Fail

November 19, 2020

My wife answered the call on a rainy Tuesday evening in May. “Hey Jessie. Can I bring my family over to stay the night? We have to evacuate.” My brother-in-law…

$2.2 Billion Requested of Canadian Government to Address Flooding and Contamination in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence

June 30, 2020

Investment to foster a new green regional economy On June 10, 2020, The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Collaborative released an Action Plan to Protect the Great Lakes and St.…