At about this time last year, we had a conversation here about Nestlé’s aggressive push to extract, bottle and sell Michigan’s fresh water. Well, as you may have heard, the Swiss company now has plans to nearly double the amount of groundwater they’re taking to 210 million gallons a year, and, as you might expect, […]
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How you can stop Nestlé from taking our water
Posted in Environment, Michigan, Uncategorized Also tagged anti-environment, Big Rapids, bottled water, Carrie Monosmith, drinking water, environmental injustice, environmental protection, EPA, Evart, ground water, Ice Mountain, injection wells, Lara Zielin, Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, natural resources, Nestle, Nestle Waters North America, Peggy Case, potash, Safe Drinking Water Act, SALT, water 16 Comments
Why are we just now finding out the extent of the contamination on Water Street?
Over the past several weeks, it’s come to light that Water Street, the 38-acre parcel of downtown, riverfront property that the City of Ypsilanti has been trying to develop for the past 16 years, may be significantly more toxic than we’d previously been led to believe. What follows is the first of what I’m hoping […]
Posted in Special Projects, Uncategorized, Ypsilanti Also tagged arsenic, Baseline Environmental Assessment, Beth Ernat, Biltmore, Border to Border Trail, brownfield, Brownfield plan, chemicals, Cheryl Farmer, DDCC, development, Document of Due Care and Compliance, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Farm Bureau, lead, Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, MSHDA, native prairie, oxic Control Substances Act of 1976, PCBs, pollution, toxic environment, VOCs, Water Street, Water Street debt reduction millage, Water Street Flats, Water Street Sculpture Park, West Forest 31 Comments
Demands for accountability grow as news of Flint water crisis goes national
Over the past several days, in the wake of the announcement that the U.S. Attorney’s Office had launched a formal investigation into the Flint water crisis, we’re finally starting to see the issue get the attention that it deserves nationally. It was not only a subject of discussion on Meet the Press this morning, where […]