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  • Line 5 Advisory Board Meeting June 12th Petoskey
    June 5, 2017
    Bring your attitude and show up to SHUT DOWN LINE 5! Petoskey Middle School 801 Northmen Dr, Petoskey, MI 49770 9am Monday June 12th If you want to use official channels to make a 3-minute statement you will be required to complete a Public Appearance Card before the public comment portion of the meeting. Cards will be available at the meeting.
    • 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Public Comment Period
    • 12:00 – 1:00 PM – Lunch Break
    • 1:00 – 3:30 PM – Meeting Business
  • Line 5 advisory board meeting 3/13 – Wear blue!
    March 6, 2017
    Line 5. We all know the 63 year old oil pipeline that runs beneath the Straits of Mackinaw. (Well, most of us. More and more each day.) We all know how this line is operated by Enbridge, the same company that let nearly one million gallons of oil spill into the Kalamazoo River. We all want Line 5 shut down. This is the summer we turn up the heat; beginning March 13th at noon. Show up and demand or support a decision for the immediate shut down of line 5! The rally will begin at noon, the meeting begins at 1:30. WEAR BLUE!!! – Wear blue clothing in support of a healthy Great Lakes Basin! The meeting will be held at 7109 West Saginaw Highway Lansing, Mi in the Lake Michigan Room.  Previous agendas and meeting minutes can be found here A facebook event has been created by Fen Valley Earth First!, and can be found here Oil And Water Don’t Mix have also put out a public call-out Want to speak during the meeting? Email simonsh@michigan.gov to register for the public comment session. Check out FLOW‘s new fact sheet for some ideas. Even if you can’t or don’t want to speak during the meeting, showing up and holding a sign outside will help, and let’s pack the meeting hall with people dressed in blue as a show of solidarity for clean water! Thanks to models from the Graham Sustainability Institute at University of Michigan, we know what a Line 5 spill would look like. Devastating. Watch below:
  • Line 5 Postcard Series
    February 17, 2017
      Announcing the hot new postcard series for the 2017 summer season! These attractive designs carry a powerful message. Download the pdf below. It works with Avery postcard 4 per page templates, or you can just print it onto card stock and cut it out yourself. Not rocket science. Use the postcards to write comments to your representatives, agencies accepting public comments, agencies not accepting public comments, Heidi’s house, wherever. We can’t tell you what to do. It’s open source.    Line 5 postcards 4/page PDF CACC Line 5 Postcard Series 1: anticopyright N©!2017 The publishers, Citizens for Alternatives to Chemical Contamination, humbly put this post card series at the disposal of those who, in good faith, might circulate, plagiarize, revise, and otherwise make use of them in the course of making the world a better place. Possession, reproduction, transmission, excerpting, introduction as evidence in court and all other applications by any corporation, government body, security organization, or similar party of evil intent are strictly prohibited and punishable under natural law.
  • Groups call on Snyder: Take immediate action to protect Straits
    October 6, 2014
    October 06, 2014 Groups working on the Oil & Water Don’t Mix initiative call a press conference to tell Governor Snyder to take immediate, meaningful action to prevent a pipeline oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac. The press conference took place Monday, October 6, 2014 at 10:30AM at the offices of the Michigan Environmental Council. Read/download the press release here. View video here: Underwater footage of the oil pipeline and a TV spot are . University of Michigan simulation of a straits oil spill . For more information, including the Oil & Water Don’t Mix campaign fact sheet, “Challenging Enbridge’s Line 5 Oil Pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac” visit this site. CACC supports the work of For Love of Water (FLOW) and is a member of the Michigan Environmental Coalition (MEC). Both MEC and FLOW are coalition members of the Oil and Water Don’t Mix Campaign.