Posted: April 12, 2010
ONLINE COMMENTARY – Detroit Free Press
Water and the public trust
BY JAMES OLSON
The future of Michigan’s economy and quality of life, like that of other Great Lakes states and provinces, hinges on our ability to preserve the integrity of one-fifth of the world’s fresh surface water as a public trust — that [...]
December 7, 2009 – 11:17 am
The Montreal Gazette
December 4, 2009 1:58 PM
MONTREAL – Twenty doctors have handed in their resignations at the Centre hospitalier régional de Sept-Îles.
In an open letter addressed to Quebec Health Minister Yves Bolduc, the physicians say they have quit, as a group, to protest plans to build an uranium mine on the North Shore.
The protest comes [...]
October 1, 2009 – 2:47 pm
October 1, 2009
James Clift, 517-256-0553
Lansing – The legislature will return to Lansing today to put the final touches on a bill that will keep Michigan’s wetlands program running at the state level for an additional three years. Proposals had been made to send the program back to the federal government to operate on [...]
September 25, 2009 – 11:49 am
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Deb Price / Detroit News Washington Bureau
Washington — The Senate easily passed legislation tonight containing $400 million for Great Lakes restoration by deterring invasive species, cleaning up highly polluted sites and expanding wetlands.
The funding level for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative falls short of the $475 million passed by the House in [...]
September 3, 2009 – 1:22 pm
Placing waters in the public trust will protect the Great Lakes
— September 02, 2009
GLEN ARBOR – Speaking to a gathering of citizen activists, State Representative Dan Scripps (D-Leland) laid out his vision for protecting all of Michigan’s waters, including lakes, rivers, streams and groundwater, by affirming they should be clearly defined as a public resource, [...]
September 3, 2009 – 1:20 pm
Contact: Sarah Lapshan (517) 241-1736
Agency: History, Arts and Libraries
Aug. 24, 2009
The Michigan Center for the Book today announced Dave Dempsey – author of award-winning books on conservation and environmental issues critical to Michigan – as the winner of the 2009 Michigan Author Award. Sponsored jointly by [...]
August 18, 2009 – 5:04 pm
August 18, 2009
Contact: Michelle Halley, NWF – 906-361-0520
NWF and partners pleased with Eagle Rock protection, will appeal remainder of decision
MARQUETTE, MICH – Administrative Law Judge Richard Patterson announced today that he will uphold permits issued to Kennecott Eagle Minerals Company by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in 2007, with one critical exception that [...]
Protect the Earth Agenda
Saturday August 1st
Workshops, Dance and Music: Northern MI University, Whitman Building, Whitman Commons (Rooms 122 and 124), and West Science Building, Mead Auditorium, Marquette, MI, 12-4 pm and 6-8 pm (See Details Below)
Workshop Speakers Include, Saturday 12-4 pm, Whitman Building, Whitman Commons, Rooms 122 and 124:
Lorraine Rekmans: Serpent River First Nation (Uranium [...]
The Canadian Federal Court decision requires Environment Canada to make the mining industry annually report the toxic waste accumulating in tailings ponds and waste rock piles.
John Jackson
Great Lakes United
Great Lakes United and Mining Watch Canada, with the legal assistance of Ecojustice, have won a court case, forcing Environment Canada to require the mining industry to [...]