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Volunteer At Wheatland!

July 16, 2015

[caption id="attachment_262" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The CACC Kitchen[/caption]
We’re always looking for people who are interested in joining the volunteer corps to help with our kitchen at the Wheatland Music Festival.

Volunteers at this event initially buy a festival ticket from CACC for $65, then receive $50 back after working a six hour shift. In the end, you get three days of music, fun and camping for $15 ! Come join the fun!

Proceeds from the kitchen work to fund CACC throughout the year, and support our primary mission objective: to provide Citizens with environmental education, information and connections that lead to action.
***Communications ALERT***

July 9, 2015

UPDATE: The @caccmi.org email server is working again. For now. Please continue to be advised of these alternative contacts for CACC communications. The emailcacc@gmail.com address will be checked for incoming mail indefinitely. Feel free to write to that address. ~~~

We are having some technical difficulties with the caccmi.org email system. If you are trying to contact CACC, please do so using the following means:
1. email to emailcacc@gmail.com 2. If you are a facebook user, please join the CACC fb groups. There is a general communications platform group and a group specifically for Wheatland volunteers. (Wheatland volunteers are encouraged to join both groups) 3. telephone 989.544.3318 The office is generally open during business hours on Wednesdays and Thursdays. Please leave a message and we will return your call as soon as we can. Please continue to try various ____@caccmi.org addresses. They will hopefully work again soon, and seem to be working intermittently. We regret any inconvenience this may cause, and hope we’ll all still be able to reach each other sufficiently through these alternative means. Stand by for further updates.
Stop the Great Lakes Nuclear Dump!

May 27, 2015

Nuclear waste burial site proposed at the Bruce Power Station in Ontario, on the shore of Lake Huron
STOP THE MADNESS! [caption id="attachment_235" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The proposed nuclear waste deep-burial site would be less than 3/4th of a mile from the shore of Lake Huron.[/caption] [caption id="attachment_236" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The Bruce Power Station is the largest nuclear power facility in the world[/caption]
For details on this issue see: this media release from Beyond Nuclear
Watch this video to get a sense of the enormity of the Bruce site
Chem Hazards in an Emergency

May 19, 2015

This is an all-too-common scenario:

An industrial facility has caught fire. The fearless ranks of local firefighters, often volunteers, rush to the scene. But do they know what hazardous chemicals might be waiting there?

It is important to provide the first responders of our community with relevant data regarding the chemical hazards they might face on-scene.

When emergency services arrive at the scene of an industrial accident, they often don’t know what chemical hazards they will encounter.

The Center for Effective Government has created an interactive map showing the facilities that report to a federal program, along with facilities containing large quantities of the nine common hazardous chemicals that report only to state programs.

Surprisingly, only about 15 percent of the facilities with these nine toxins at the state level reported to the federal program for highly hazardous chemicals.
Click here for the map and information from the Center for Effective Government

Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination

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We’re always looking for people who are interested in joining the volunteer corps to help with our kitchen at the Wheatland Music Festival.

Volunteers at this event initially buy a festival ticket from CACC for $65, then receive $50 back after working a six hour shift. In the end, you get three days of music, fun and camping for $15 ! Come join the fun!

Proceeds from the kitchen work to fund CACC throughout the year, and support our primary mission objective: to provide Citizens with environmental education, information and connections that lead to action.

UPDATE: The @caccmi.org email server is working again. For now. Please continue to be advised of these alternative contacts for CACC communications. The emailcacc@gmail.com address will be checked for incoming mail indefinitely. Feel free to write to that address. ~~~

We are having some technical difficulties with the caccmi.org email system. If you are trying to contact CACC, please do so using the following means:

Nuclear waste burial site proposed at the Bruce Power Station in Ontario, on the shore of Lake Huron

For details on this issue see: this media release from Beyond Nuclear

This is an all-too-common scenario:

An industrial facility has caught fire. The fearless ranks of local firefighters, often volunteers, rush to the scene. But do they know what hazardous chemicals might be waiting there?

It is important to provide the first responders of our community with relevant data regarding the chemical hazards they might face on-scene.

When emergency services arrive at the scene of an industrial accident, they often don’t know what chemical hazards they will encounter.

The Center for Effective Government has created an interactive map showing the facilities that report to a federal program, along with facilities containing large quantities of the nine common hazardous chemicals that report only to state programs.

Surprisingly, only about 15 percent of the facilities with these nine toxins at the state level reported to the federal program for highly hazardous chemicals.