PR: Great Lakes Policy Expert, Environmental Historian Joins FLOW
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Reports & Media Releases
PR: Citizens Respond to Attorney General Schuette: Get Off the Sidelines on Line 5 and Protect Great Lakes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, March 28, 2017 Media Contacts: Leonard Page 231-268-8430/ leonard@thepages.net David Holtz 313-300-4454/david@davidholtz.org Citizens Respond to Attorney General Schuette: Get Off the Sidelines on Line 5 and Protect Great Lakes Responding today to a letter from Attorney General Bill Schuette, citizens groups from across the state told state officials that their… Read more »
PR: State of Michigan Takes a “Holiday” from Preventing Line 5 Oil Spill Disaster in Great Lakes
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 9, 2017 Contact: Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director Email: Liz@FLOWforWater.org FLOW (For Love of Water) … Read more »
PR: In Wake of New Pipeline Concerns, Groups Call On Snyder, Schuette to Begin Shutting Down Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, February 20, 2017 Media Contact: David Holtz 313-300-4454/david@davidholtz.org In Wake of New Pipeline Concerns, Groups Call On Snyder, Schuette to Begin Shutting Down Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac Gov. Rick Snyder and Attorney General Bill Schuette must require Enbridge to shut off the flow of oil through Line… Read more »
PR: Congressman Dan Kildee Introduces Legislation to Protect the Great Lakes, Michigan’s Sport Fishing Industry
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Thursday, February 9, 2017 Contact: Mitchell Rivard, 989-450-2534, Mitchell.Rivard@mail.house.gov Congressman Dan Kildee Introduces Legislation to Protect the Great Lakes, Michigan’s Sport Fishing Industry Kildee Seeks to Address For-Profit Fish Farming that Poses New Threats to Michigan’s Waterways, including the Au Sable River FENTON – Congressman Dan Kildee (MI-05), flanked by… Read more »
FLOW Releases New Fact Sheets Regarding Line 5
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 6, 2017 Contact: Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director Email: Liz@FLOWforWater.org FLOW (For Love of Water) Office: (231) 944-1568, Cell: (570) 872-4956 Research Identifies Viable Options to Enbridge’s Aging “Line 5” for U.P.’s Propane Supply and Michigan, Midwest Demand for Oil Developing and Implementing Alternatives… Read more »
Human Rights to Water and Sanitation Toolkit
Dear friends, The Blue Planet Project, FLOW (For Love of Water), the Canadian Union of Pubic Employees, KruHa Indonesia, la Red Vida and the National Coalition on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation are pleased to launch the Human Rights to Water and Sanitation toolkit in advance of International Human Rights Day on December… Read more »
Michigan’s Growing Threat: Fish Farming in the Great Lakes & Tributaries
Michigan sits at the center of a debate over whether to open its Great Lakes waters to commercial aquaculture or fish farming. The practice involves packing thousands of fish into near-shore cages or mesh net-pens that rise above the surface, are anchored to the bottom, and accessed via pier or boat. The fish are fattened… Read more »
State Must Stop Oil Flow, Hold Public Hearings on the “Line 5” Oil Pipelines in the Mackinac Straits
Under Michigan law, the state must stop Line 5’s oil flow and hold public hearings on the steel pipelines lying underwater in the Mackinac Straits as it considers Enbridge Energy’s application to remedy easement violations and shore up its aging underwater infrastructure, according to FLOW (For Love of Water), a Traverse City-based Great Lakes water… Read more »
State Has Ignored Enbridge’s Line 5 Straits Pipeline Violations
Although Attorney General Bill Schuette and top state environmental agency directors yesterday notified Enbridge of violations of its agreement to operate oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac, officials only did so several months after being told by experts that powerful currents had washed away critical pipeline support infrastructure. Schuette, Michigan Department of Environmental… Read more »