MCWC ALLIES: YOUR RESPONSE IS NEEDED ASAP TO THIS ACTION ALERT INITIATED BY BAN MICHIGAN FRACKING. MCWC fully supports taking immediate action to prevent EGLE from securing control from the EPA over Class II Injection wells. We have worked for years to counter first the DEQ and now EGLE’s declared objective to maximize production of…
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MCWC Press Release: Nestle Completes Sale of North America Bottled Water Assets
Press Release – April 1, 2021 Nestle Completes Sale of North America Bottled Water Assets to One Rock Capital Partners, LLC and Metropoulos & Co. Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation, along with groups around the country and in Canada has been warning the public and government officials that this event was in the works. Why…
Action Needed in Requesting Public Hearing
ACTION ALERT – January 19, 2021 Once again the EPA is being asked to permit injection wells in Michigan to store Class I, so-called “non-hazardous waste” in an area that presents risk to our waters. More and more the state is being asked to fill its underground formations with toxins, with little or no serious investigation of the…
MCWC Statement in Enbridge’s Line 5
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation stands behind Governor Whitmer and Attorney General Nessel as they exercise their legal right and responsibility to shut down Line 5 before a catastrophic oil spill in the Straits. After years of easement violations by Enbridge and massive public outcry to protect the Great Lakes, it is shocking that a…
MCWC Action Alert – Opposing Nestle
ACTION ALERT After four years of massive citizen opposition to an increase in the Nestle water grab in Osceola County, the State through EGLE has determined that we should be dismissed. Nestle gets its permit to pump at 400 gallons per minute and we are informed we had no right to contest this. We get…
OWDM Press Release: Citizens Groups Respond to Enbridge Attempt To Avoid LIne 5 Accountability
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, November 24, 2020 Citizens Groups Respond to Enbridge Attempt To Avoid LIne 5 Accountability The following statement can be attributed to Sean McBrearty, Oil & Water Don’t Mix coordinator Today it was reported that Enbridge has filed suit in U.S. District Court to block Michigan’s governor from enforcing a state agreement…
Release: MCWC responds to EGLE Decision in Nestle Contested Case
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation responds to EGLE Decision in Nestle Contested Case – November 23, 2020 The decision by the Director of EGLE to completely dismiss the Contested Case filed by MCWC and the Grand Traverse Band (GTB), and allow Nestle to keep the permit issued by the Snyder administration’s MDEQ, shows an appalling disregard for…
Release: Evart’s White Pine Springs Takes Center Stage in North America’s Water Wars
Evart’s White Pine Springs Takes Center Stage in North America’s Water Wars — As Nestlé prepares to sell off its bottled water brands, Michiganders join communities across North America demanding the return of their local water sources Evart is taking center stage in North America’s “water wars” as local advocates demand that Nestlé Waters North…
We’ve been patient – now it’s time for action!
Times of Peril and Promise The triple crises of global pandemic, climate change, and rising assaults on social and environmental justice have brought us to the brink of radical transformation in the way we live on this singular planet called Earth. We still have a chance to choose life over extinction, but time is running…
We salute the protests taking place against racial violence, the most brutal aspect of systemic racism.
June 9,2020 Structural racism is woven through the fabric of the most basic of human needs. While George Floyd was denied air to breathe, thousands of people, the vast majority of color, have been denied clean water, for months and years as in Flint. While industry pumps and seizes massive amounts of the water in…