345,000 Signatures Opposing Nestlé! SumOfUs petition urges Department of Environmental Quality to cancel a plan allowing Nestlé to acquire 210 million gallons of groundwater for $200 Lansing, MI — On Tuesday Feb 28th, residents and members of Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation will gather outside the Department of Environmental Quality’s offices in Lansing to deliver…
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Letter of Request to DEQ of Nestlé Water Takings
February 16, 2017 To: Heidi Grether Director, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality P.O. Box 30473, Lansing, MI 48909-7973 Rick Snyder Governor of the State of Michigan P.O. Box 30013, Lansing, MI 48909 From: Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation RE: Nestlé Permit for Production Well PW-101, WSSN20166-67 White Pine Springs Site, Osceola County WE are formally…
Initial Position on Nestlé Evart Water Takings
Our Initial Position Opposing Nestlé Water Taking… February 6, 2017 Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC) is currently in fact-finding and research mode on the Nestlé permit request of increasing to 400 gallons per minute (gpm) water takings from the White Pine Springs Well 101 in Osceola Township, Osceola County. The following is our current…
January 24, 2017 Opening Statement
January 24, 2017 Opening Statement at Press Conference for Statewide Public Hearings on Nestle’s Application Permit for 400 gallons a minute “water taking” from White Pine Springs Well 101 in Evart, Michigan We’d like to thank you all for being here with us in the middle of the road in the middle of winter. Michigan…
MDEQ chief ready to approve massive increase in hazardous waste in Detroit
MDEQ won’t limit US Ecology hazardous waste Rationale: Mid-December, the new chief of Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ), Heidi Grether, plans to follow in Snyder’s jackboots – disregarding public health, kicking aside elected officials and their attempts to protect public health, ignoring the demands of residents, scientists and environmentalists and placing big brother’s stamp…
Historical Perspective: MCWC vs Nestlé Waters North America/Ice Mountain
Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation verses Nestlé History Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC) ended its ten-year battle against Nestlé/Ice Mountain in 2009 and won. Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation (MCWC) began in late 2000, as a grass roots citizen organization, when citizens learned of Nestle/Perrier/Great Spring Waters of America/Ice Mountain’s spring water mining and…
U.S. Ecology, Inc. in Detroit – Thursday, June 9, 2016
Michigan Activists Demand MDEQ Protect Health from US Ecology Inc DETROIT – Activists from Flint, Southfield and Detroit joined together in a call for the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) to make health a priority above appeasing corporate polluters. The groups including Sierra Club Michigan Chapter and the Coalition to Stop the Expansion of…
Potash Mining – Under MCWC Priorities
Michigan Potash Company Hits Another Snag Project Already More than 2 Years Behind Schedule Osceola County, Michigan 9/16/16: Michigan Potash Company anticipated quick approval of 3 waste-injection wells in Hersey & Evart Townships for their planned solution-mine and hoped to break ground this Fall. Permitting problems have now thrown that timetable out the window. This…