FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 18, 2018 Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director Email: Liz@FLOWforWater.org FLOW (For Love of Water), Traverse City, MI … line-5-oil-tunnel-deals/" title="ReadSnyder Administration Knowingly Violates State Law, Constitution in Race to Seal ‘Line 5’ Oil Tunnel Deals”>Read more »
With four days remaining until the Michigan Legislature is scheduled to adjourn and 14 days until the inauguration of a new governor, environmental rollbacks still threaten Michigan’s waters and values. To help FLOW and many allied groups fight back, please read the bill summaries below, and – for greater detail – click on the links… line-5-lame-duck-legislature-threaten-michigans-waters-way-life/" title="ReadLine 5, Lame Duck Legislature Threaten Michigan’s Waters and Way of Life”>Read more »
https://forloveofwater-wp-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Liz-testifying-12.11.18.mp4 FLOW Executive Director Liz Kirkwood testifying Dec. 11, 2018, at the Michigan House of Representatives Government Operations Committee. https://forloveofwater-wp-uploads.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Kelly-testifying-12.11.18.mp4 FLOW Deputy Director Kelly Thayer testifying Dec. 11, 2018, at the Michigan House of Representatives Government Operations Committee. In coordinated fashion, the Michigan’s lame-duck legislature on Tuesday and governor today opened the flood gates to a 99-year… Line 5 Pipelines“>Read more »
Photo credit: Nancy May By Liz Kirkwood and Skip Pruss Substitute Bill SB 1197 continues to be riddled with faulty assumptions and logic that favor and bend towards Enbridge’s private corporate shareholder interests. Most glaring of all is the audacious and misguided underlying assertion that we humans will continue to rely on a fossil fuel… line-5-long-term-asset-not-chance-century/" title="ReadLine 5 – a Long-Term Asset? Not a Chance in this Century”>Read more »
Updated November 30, 2018 The rush continues in Michigan’s lame-duck legislature to bind the future of the Mackinac Bridge to notorious oil-spiller Enbridge and its proposed private oil tunnel. A Republican-led Senate committee at an 8:15 a.m. hearing on November 28 voted 3-2 along party lines to approve Senate Bill 1197 and advance it to… line-5/" title="ReadContact Your State Lawmaker Today to Save the Mackinac Bridge from Enbridge Line 5“>Read more »
FLOW President Jim Olson addresses the board of the Mackinac Bridge Authority at its Nov. 8, 2018, meeting in St. Ignace. FLOW is urging supporters to contact your Michigan lawmakers today using our guidance below and to plan to join FLOW and other leaders of the Oil & Water Don’t Mix campaign who are hosting a Line… line-5/" title="ReadTake Action Today to Oppose Michigan’s Senate Bill 1197 and Save the Mackinac Bridge from Enbridge Line 5“>Read more »
FLOW is urging supporters to contact your Michigan lawmakers today using our template message as a starting point, and to join FLOW and the other leaders of the Oil & Water Don’t Mix campaign who are hosting a Line 5 lawmaker lobby day for Tuesday, November 27, in Lansing, to fight for the Great Lakes… Line 5 Oil Tunnel Scheme”>Read more »
If you live anywhere along the route of Enbridge’s Line 5 crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) pipeline, which travels 547 miles across the Upper Peninsula, the Straits of Mackinac, and down through Lower Michigan, you should be asking state and local government officials and emergency responders a lot of questions. You should know… line-5-michigan/" title="ReadLiving Along Enbridge Line 5 in Michigan”>Read more »
STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 3, 2018 Jim Olson, President, Legal Advisor Email: Jim@FLOWforWater.org FLOW (For Love of Water), Traverse City, MI … line-5-oil-tunnel-increases-risk-great-lakes-oil-spill/" title="ReadFor Immediate Release: Gov. Snyder’s “Line 5” Oil Tunnel Increases Risk of Great Lakes Oil Spill”>Read more »
Michigan Senator Gary Peters, ranking member of a Senate committee overseeing hazardous pipelines, held a public hearing in Traverse City, Michigan Monday, ground zero in a race to turn off Enbridge’s 65-year old Line 5 before it spills millions of gallons into the Straits of Mackinac and blackens the water, life, and economy of the… line-5-great-lakes/" title="ReadU.S. Senate Hearing Sets the Stage for Turning Off Dangerous Enbridge Line 5 in Great Lakes”>Read more »
