FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, Feb. 7, 2019 Contact: Nick Dodge, Byrum & Fisk Advocacy Communications, (517) 333-1606 Business leaders urge lawmakers to support clean water LANSING – Business leaders today held a tele-news conference to call on lawmakers in the state Legislature to support Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s executive order that reorganizes the Department of Environmental […]
House of Representatives P.O. Box 30014 Lansing, Michigan 48909 Michigan State Senate P.O. Box 30036 Lansing, Michigan 48909 Mackinac Bridge Authority N 415 I-75 St. Ignace, Michigan 49781 Dear Decision Makers, As members of the Great Lakes Business Network (GLBN) – a Network that formed around the common goal of protecting the […]
(October 9, 2018 – Ann Arbor, Mich.) – The Great Lakes Business Network (GLBN), comprised of over 100 businesses throughout the Great Lakes, have adopted a position statement in opposition to the Line 5 agreement announced by Governor Snyder on October 3, 2018. That agreement, which was largely developed behind closed doors, grants Enbridge full […]
Great Lakes Business Network Says Healthy Environment Essential for Michigan Businesses (February 12, 2018) — More than 25 Michigan businesses under the banner of the Great Lakes Business Network sent a letter to Gov. Rick Snyder on Friday asking him to veto legislation creating an industry-packed panel that gives industry the power to skirt environmental protections. […]
February 9th, 2018 Governor Rick Snyder P.O. Box 30013 Lansing, Michigan 48909 House of Representatives P.O. Box 30014 Lansing, Michigan 48909 Michigan State Senate P.O. Box 30036 Lansing, Michigan 48909 Dear Governor Snyder, As members of the Great Lakes Business Network (GLBN), which formed around the common goal of protecting the Great Lakes and the […]
Contact: Drew YoungeDyke, National Wildlife Federation, youngedyked@nwf.org, 734.757.0408 Lansing, MI – Michigan’s Pipeline Safety Advisory Board (PSAB) voted unanimously today to recommend that the State of Michigan contract a team of academic experts to complete a risk analysis study on Enbridge’s 64-year-old Line 5 pipeline, which runs through the Straits of Mackinac. The state terminated […]