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Recent public and media contributions

by danielmacfarlane

I’ve been forgetting to update my public and media contributors here, so here is a compiled list of what I’ve done in the last year or so:

·Daniel Macfarlane, “The Great Lakes are in Trouble,” August 26, 2022, Inside Higher Ed: https://www.insidehighered.com/audio/2022/08/25/great-lakes-are-trouble

·Daniel Macfarlane, “Half a Century after the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, the Lakes are in Trouble,” August 25, 2022, The Academic Minute: https://academicminute.org/2022/08/daniel-macfarlane-western-michigan-university-half-a-century-after-the-great-lakes-water-quality-agreement-the-lakes-are-in-trouble/

·Daniel Macfarlane, “Restoring the Great Lakes: After 50 years of US-Canada joint efforts, some success and lots of unfinished business,” May 19, 2022, The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/restoring-the-great-lakes-after-50-years-of-us-canada-joint-efforts-some-success-and-lots-of-unfinished-business-181037 (reprinted by a number of other media outlets)

·Daniel Macfarlane, “Why do Canadians seem to care so little about protecting the Great Lakes from Line 5?” October 26, 2021, Michigan Advance: https://michiganadvance.com/2021/10/26/column-why-do-canadians-seem-to-care-so-little-about-protecting-the-great-lakes-from-line-5/

·Daniel Macfarlane, “Canada’s hypocritical love of fossil fuels behind fight to keep dangerous Line 5 running,” June 7, 2021, Toronto Star: https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/2021/06/07/canadas-hypocritical-love-of-fossil-fuels-behind-fight-to-keep-dangerous-line-5-pipeline-running-through-great-lakes.html

Co-written article wins CHA’s Indigenous History Group’s 2022 Best Article Prize

by danielmacfarlane

The article I co-wrote with Andrea Olive, published in the Canadian Historical Review, won the Canadian Historical Association’s Indigenous History Group’s Best Article Prize for 2022: ·“Whither Wintego:  Environmental Impact Assessment and Indigenous Opposition in Saskatchewan’s Churchill River Hydropower Project in the 1970s,” with Andrea Olive, Canadian Historical Review 102, 3 (December 2021).