June 5, 2018 Response to DEQ Issuing Potash Waste Well Permits Our very busy Michigan Department of Environmental Quality has just granted Michigan Potash Company, based in Colorado, the 3 waste-well permits needed to accompany the 8 production well permits granted earlier, for a potash mine in Hersey, Michigan. The operation in question is a…
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Press Release: MCWC files Petition for Contested Case to Michigan DEQ Permit to Nestle Waters North America
Press Release: May 31, 2018 Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation filed a Petition for Contested Case Thursday in opposition to the Michigan DEQ decision to issue Permit No. 1701, which was granted to Nestle Waters North America in April and would allow the company to increase its water withdrawal at the White Pine Springs Well…
Speak Up Now: Detroit U.S. Ecology Wants to Expand
SPEAK UP NOW — DEMAND A PUBLIC HEARING!! Join State Representative Rose Mary Robinson in this demand. U.S. Ecology, Inc. – A huge Toxic Waste Treatment Plant that wants to expand 9-fold in a Detroit neighborhood! After two plus years of review the Michigan DEQ and the EPA are on track to grant U. S.…
News Release: MCWC Challenges MDEQ Permit Regarding Nestle’s 400gpm Water Grab
News Release on Nestle Permit April 25, 2018 Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC) which includes among its members a number of citizens with riparian rights and clear standing in Osceola Township, Evart, Michigan, is currently preparing a Petition for a Contested Case with regard to permit 1701 issued by MDEQ to Nestle on April…
April 30th Lansing Women Voters Event: Protecting Michigan’s Water
Join Lansing’s League of Women Voters and Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation for a discussion on protecting Michigan’s water. Download flyer here
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation: Statement on Nestlé Permit Granted by MDEQ in Evart, Michigan
April 4, 2018 We would first like to thank all those people in Michigan and elsewhere who took the time to comment in opposition to the Nestlé request to pump 400 gpm (gallons per minute) from the White Pines Springs well in Evart to extract 210 million gallons of water from the commons for $200…
The Potash Mine is “Fool’s Gold” – not a Michigan “Gold Mine”
The Detroit Free Press ran an article on March 16th about the proposed potash mine in Osceola county. The article was called “Gold mine of potash sits beneath Michigan, could be worth $65 billion”. We beg to differ with this headline and article and would much rather say that it is “Fool’s Gold”. The quality…
March 14: Great Lakes Water Is Life Online Event
Dear friends, Since the Flint MI Water is Life public forum last September, the organizers have been busy strategizing, coordinating, and planning. Now we are finally ready to come back together for more learning and action. Nestlé’s bottled water takings, the privatization of water infrastructure and the pollution of water impact Great Lakes communities and…
Potash Mining Company wants to do WHAT?
Potash Mining Company wants to do WHAT? ATTEND: Potash Mine DEQ Public Hearing on Injection Wells on March 12. 11 Injection wells have been OK’d by the EPA for proposed Potash Mine in sensitive wetlands in Muskegon River Watershed in Osceola county. We ask you to attend the DEQ Public Hearing. The potash mine will…
Support Osceola Township
You may imagine the story “David and Goliath” when you think about a township with 900 residents that is currently standing up to the multi-billion$$$ foreign corporation, Nestlé. MCWC has been here before when we delivered a lawsuit against Nestlé in 2004 for pumping too much water from the Sanctuary site in Mecosta County and…