This week I teamed up with Ralph Pentland, a leading Canadian water policy expert (see Pentland and Wood, Down the Drain, Greystone Books, 2013), and submitted to the Ontario Parliament comments on Bill 6, its proposed Great Lakes Protection Act. Bill 6 looks to the future by requiring policy and initiatives to protect Lake Ontario… Read more »
Click here to view and download the full press release PDF FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Liz Kirkwoood, Executive Director 231 944 1568 or liz@flowforwater.org FLOW Marks First Two Protective Ordinance Packages: Addresses Fracking Impacts for Two Michigan Townships TRAVERSE CITY, MI — In late November, FLOW—the Great Lakes Basin’s only public trust policy and education… Read more »
Guest Blogger and FLOW Board Member Emma Lui is the Water Campaign Director for the Council of Canadians. She shared her recent blog post with us about Maude Barlow’s speaking engagement in Rochester, NY. I just got home from an incredible event in Rochester, New York, the fourth Great Lakes tour stop. Maude Barlow, National… Read more »
By Guest Blogger and FLOW Board Member, Emma Lui, Council of Canadians Water Campaigner. Read the original post here. Maude Barlow and I arrived in Bayfield, Ontario, the 15th stop of the Great Lakes Need Great Friends tour, on Friday evening. It is a beautiful village and Main Street is full of quaint, cozy and… Read more »
Click here to view the press release as a PDF Fracking creating major water consumption issues near Kalkaska Unable to get 8.4 million gallons of water at site, Encana forced to buy water from Kalkaska, Mancelona city systems For Immediate Release June 4, 2013 Kalkaska, Michigan Concerns about the impact to local groundwater by massive… Read more »
Hello Great Lakes lovers. My name is Justin Sterk and I have recently begun volunteering at FLOW, in downtown Traverse City, Michigan. As a native of Traverse City, the Great Lakes hold special importance to me and my family, and it is a great thrill for me to be able to begin contributing to the… Read more »
Click here to view and download the full press release PDF PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 27, 2013 Flow Featured on UpNorth TV’s Volunteer Northwest Michigan Program in July TRAVERSE CITY, MI – FLOW, the Great Lakes Basin’s only public trust policy and education center, will be featured on UpNorth TV, channel 2, throughout… Read more »
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Liz Kirkwood, Executive Director Liz Kirkwood oversees FLOW’s policy, legal, technical and communications work. After working as an environmental lawyer in both the U.S. and overseas, she has returned to the nonprofit sector because she is mission-driven and passionate about protecting the Great Lakes. Read more here. What connected you to the Great Lakes: The… Read more »
by Anne-Marie Oomen The river is a liquid canal to a pure thing, painless as sleep and silent except for distant laughter over tan and shallow water. The sun holds open the sky for geese and green-feathered woodcocks who, for now, also drift, staring, audience to river currents that turn underwater grasses all in the… Read more »
