Archive: Water Grabs
Summer 2018 Newsletter
Editorial addresses corporate assault on the Great Lakes through Nestle permits, potash mining, injection wells, and toxic waste expansion while the government enables profiteering. MCWC files legal challenges despite difficult times.
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Nestle opposition continues with over 85,000 Michigan comments submitted. Osceola Township denies booster station permit and faces lawsuit. Citizen scientists document environmental damage from seventeen years water withdrawal.
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Nestle requests a permit to increase water withdrawal from 150 to 400 gallons per minute near Evart. MCWC mobilizes a campaign generating over 25,000 comments opposing privatization of public water resources.
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The Flint water crisis resulted from state government failures and privatization efforts. The Emergency Manager rule ignored residents' right to clean water while enabling private corporations in Michigan cities.
Read MoreDecember 2015 Newsletter
Editorial reveals that Detroit water shutoffs and Flint lead poisoning follow an identical pattern: emergency managers privatizing water systems through the Water Authority, Veolia North America, while infrastructure crumbles, rates skyrocket, and predominantly poor Black residents suffer.
Read MoreAugust 2012 Newsletter
Acting president warns horizontal fracking uses millions of gallons of groundwater mixed with toxic secret chemicals and radioactive material, permanently contaminating aquifers while DEQ ignores cumulative environmental impacts statewide.
Read MoreJanuary 2011 Newsletter
An educational piece reveals bottled water contains dangerous contaminants exceeding health limits, requires seventeen million barrels of oil yearly for production, and creates massive waste with eighty-six percent ending in landfills.
Read MoreDecember 2009 Newsletter
After nine years, MCWC wins a settlement forcing Nestle to reduce pumping from 400 to 218 gallons per minute yearly, with additional spawning and drought restrictions, and prohibiting future increase requests.
Read MoreAugust 2009 Newsletter
MCWC celebrates major victory against Nestle after nine-year legal battle, forcing permanent fifty-percent reduction in water pumping to protect Mecosta streams, lakes, and wetlands from excessive removal.
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