Toward the end of Dan Egan’s award-winning book, The Death and Life of the Great Lakes, the author observes that in the 1960s Michigan unilaterally planted exotic salmon in the Lakes. The action produced a new sportfishery but also changed the ecology of the Great Lakes in unforeseen ways, with consequences that all the people… Read more »
Look through any Traverse City visitors’ guide book for places to see during your stay, and nine times of out of ten, they’ll point you straight to Sleeping Bear Dunes. With its sweeping, majestic views from the dunes overlook and Caribbean blue waters of Lake Michigan below, it’s no wonder why this place nabs all… 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… excerpt-read-more" href="https://forloveofwater.org/u-s-senate-hearing-sets-stage-turning-off-dangerous-enbridge-line-5-great-lakes/" title="ReadU.S. Senate Hearing Sets the Stage for Turning Off Dangerous Enbridge Line 5 in Great Lakes”>Read more »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2018 Even the significantly understated economic impacts of a spill from Line 5 at the Straits of Mackinac in a state-commissioned analysis reveal a fiscal and human price tag too high for the people of Michigan, FLOW (For Love of Water) said in comments submitted to Lansing officials before Sunday’s… excerpt-read-more" href="https://forloveofwater.org/state-commissioned-line-5-risk-analysis-underlines-urgency-shutdown-flow-says/" title="ReadState-Commissioned Line 5 Risk Analysis Underlines Urgency of Shutdown, FLOW Says”>Read more »
Michigan’s state park system is considered one of the finest in the nation. Dating back to 1917, the system includes 103 parks and recreation areas that sustain more than 25 million annual visits. But there’s another, smaller park system, and it’s underwater. The underwater preserve system is also on public land – the nearly 40,000… Read more »
Power Island in Grand Traverse Bay has always been a hometown favorite of mine. I have been visiting Power Island since I was a young boy and have always been fascinated about the stories my mother would tell me about how she would visit the island as a young girl, and how her parents attended… Read more »
Over three years ago, on July 15, 2015, the State of Michigan’s Petroleum Pipeline Task Force released its recommendations for the state to conduct an independent risk analysis and independent alternatives analysis on the Line 5 pipelines located in the open waters of the Great Lakes. The Governor’s Advisory Board, created by executive order, promised… excerpt-read-more" href="https://forloveofwater.org/finally-honest-conversation-line-5s-real-risks-waters-way-life/" title="ReadFinally, An Honest Conversation About Line 5’s Real Risks to Our Waters and Our Way of Life”>Read more »
Now that the primary election is behind us, Michiganders will pay increasing attention to this fall’s all-important electoral choices. FLOW is contacting the nominees for Governor, Attorney General, and northwest Michigan House and Senate seats this week to inform them of the water and public trust issues we think they should tackle. We are looking… excerpt-read-more" href="https://forloveofwater.org/water-is-on-the-ballot-too/" title="ReadWater is on the Ballot, Too“>Read more »
In an end-run around the public participation process they established, Governor Rick Snyder and Enbridge, Inc., the owner and operator of Line 5, are exploring the possibility of building a $500 million tunnel to replace the stretch of 65 year-old Line 5 pipeline that runs under the Straits of Mackinac. While a tunnel, properly designed… excerpt-read-more" href="https://forloveofwater.org/tunnel-line-5-big-mistake/" title="ReadA Tunnel for Line 5? – That Would be a Big Mistake”>Read more »
Friday Favorites is our new series where we explore some of our favorite places to play in and around the Great Lakes. Traverse City residents might be rolling their eyes at the suggestion of Pyramid Point as one of my favorite places in the Traverse City area, but hear me out. This (not so) secret… Read more »
