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Respond to Michigan Lawmaker’s statement about the proposed ballot initiative to protect water resources. Write, call or email your rep’s today.

Suggested Counter Points to Their Statement:

-It is our position that if congressmen and women do not have the time to read and research what they are commenting on, they should refrain from doing so.

-The movement to prevent pollution and degradation to the water and wilderness of the U.P. started in the hearts and minds of local concerned citizens decades ago.

-Recreational and environmental tourism is the lifeblood of Upper Michigan’s economy.  Tourism doesn’t impose heavy utility lines, toxic tailings, industrial haul roads into
remote, wild areas, or threaten the water quality of our local watersheds and Great Lakes.

-The ballot initiative DOES NOT “ban mining” as our legislators erroneously assert. Currently no rules exist for uranium mining, so logically we need tough regulations to mine an intensely toxic and radioactive substance to protect health and water quality. The same can be said for sulfide mining that threatens our pure water with hard-to-control acid mine drainage. New ballot legislation would safeguard our resources by strengthening the existing mining law.

-We agree with the lawmakers when they say, “The people of the U.P. should have the right to decide what is in their region’s best interest”.

-The Upper Peninsula is not a “playground” for the concerned citizens of Michigan. This is our homeland.

-The movement to protect the Upper Peninsula began here, and will continue to be fiercely supported by those who understand the trade-off of higher wages for quality of life. It is time to invent new and sustainable solutions for our employment woes instead of taking easy money from foreign investors that will ‘boom and bust’ the State of Michigan and leave our land and water in a shambles. One would expect our legislators to feel the same way.