Our State’s leadership in the handling of Enbridge’s Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac has gone from bad to worse. In light of disclosures by Enbridge of a failed pipeline design and the refusal on the part of our State leaders to take action to prevent devastating harm to the Great Lakes, it is… Read more »
FLOW has contacted key Michigan lawmakers to ask them to defend the public’s Great Lakes waters and submerged lands from intrusion. Legislation before the House Committee on Natural Resources exceeds the Legislature’s powers and puts publicly owned waters and submerged lands at risk. S.B. 409 allows private riparian landowners to occupy Great Lakes submerged lands… excerpt-read-more" href="https://forloveofwater.org/flow-submits-nonpartisan-comment-proposed-senate-bill-409/" title="ReadFLOW Submits a Nonpartisan Comment on Proposed Senate Bill 409″>Read more »
What do the Flint drinking water catastrophe and the recent agreement regarding the Enbridge pipeline at the Straits of Mackinac have in common? Both are the result of a gubernatorial administration with fundamental mistrust of the public it serves. In Flint, the Snyder Administration appointed an emergency manager to short-circuit democratic processes and act paternally… Read more »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 27, 2017 Contact: Liz Kirkwood Email: Liz@FLOWforWater.org Executive Director Office: (231) 944-1568… excerpt-read-more" href="https://forloveofwater.org/immediate-release-flow-responds-state-enbridge-agreement/" title="ReadFor Immediate Release: FLOW RESPONDS TO STATE-ENBRIDGE AGREEMENT”>Read more »
Fort Gratiot County Park north of Port Huron bustles for a little more than three months of the year, from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Large groups occupy the gazebos, families snatch up all the picnic tables, teens play Frisbee in the sand while kids rule a small playground, and the smell of cooking meat is… excerpt-read-more" href="https://forloveofwater.org/drinking-water-forgotten-tragedy/" title="ReadDrinking Water and a Forgotten Tragedy”>Read more »
The City of Flint, through its city council, just approved a deal to return to and stay on Detroit water, now managed and sold by the suburban Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA). This decision must be viewed as the next step, not the final outcome. Even though the city and residents will get the benefit… excerpt-read-more" href="https://forloveofwater.org/time-remove-grinch-flint-detroit-future-michigans-great-lakes-water/" title="ReadIt Is Time to Remove the Grinch from Flint, Detroit, and the Future of Michigan’s Great Lakes Water”>Read more »
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Jim Maturen of Reed City is a lifelong conservationist who looked personally into the concern that Nestle’s water withdrawals are affecting critical and sensitive trout streams. He did it the old-fashioned way – he went out in the streams. We asked him for his observations. The controversy over Nestlé’s extraction of water in Osceola County… Read more »
Deep beneath the Straits of Mackinac, where twin petroleum pipelines cross the lakebed, sunlight has difficulty penetrating. But there’s more illumination at that depth than there is on key information involving the safety of the pipelines, thanks to deplorable tactics of state agencies and the pipeline owner, Enbridge. The recent disclosure of state-company collusion to… excerpt-read-more" href="https://forloveofwater.org/illuminating-information-straits-mackinac/" title="ReadIlluminating Information in the Straits of Mackinac”>Read more »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE TO MEDIA: November 3, 2017 Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director Cell: 570-872-4956 FLOW (For Love of Water) … excerpt-read-more" href="https://forloveofwater.org/pitting-corrosion-impact-zebra-quagga-mussels-bare-steel-pipelines/" title="ReadPitting Corrosion and the Impact of Zebra and Quagga Mussels on Bare Steel Pipelines”>Read more »
