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May 2014 Newsletter
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Newsletter: May 2014
MCWC celebrates becoming debt-free after fourteen years, having raised over one million dollars through garage sales, pasties, and grants to pay off Nestlé legal battle costs.
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- MCWC celebrated becoming debt-free in March 2014 after raising over one million dollars in fourteen years
- Revised call for fracking ban emphasizes water contamination, toxic chemicals, and permanent aquifer loss
- Committee to Ban Fracking launches 2015 petition drive targeting 2016 ballot with $500,000 fundraising goal
- Sixty-year-old Enbridge Pipeline 5 under Mackinac Bridge raises concerns after Kalamazoo River tar sands spill
- Ten organizations, including MCWC, demand that Homestead Resort stop spraying sewage into Sleeping Bear Dunes park
- Banks refuse mortgages on fracking-leased properties as homeowners face foreclosure and insurance denial
- North Dakota rancher suffers health impacts from fracking chemicals, including arsenic and radiation poisoning