-----Original Message----- From: Willi Nolan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, May 05, 1998 1:49 PM Subject: PLEASE READ & PASS ON! Fwd: fighting back bottling lake superio :Subject: E-M:/ bottling lake superior :Sent: 5/1/98 3:15 PM :Received: 5/5/98 8:55 AM :From: Bob Olsgard, [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :------------------------------------------------------------------------- :Enviro-Mich message from Dave Dempsey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :------------------------------------------------------------------------- : :A Canadian company has won approval from the Ontario Ministry of the :Environment to take up to 600 million litres of water each year from Lake :Superior -- or about 300 million large Coke bottles -- and sell it in :Asia. : :Reacting to the proposal, U.S. Rep. Bart Stupak has written Secretary of :State Madeline Albright urging her to investigate the five year, 3 billion :litre transfer of water proposed by the Nova Group of Sault Ste. Marie, :Ontario. Stupak says he is concerned the proposal is inconsistent with :the :1909 Boundary Waters Treaty between the U.S. and Canada and other :agreements. : :"With this sale are we opening up the Great Lakes to a new kind of :commercial development with no policy in place?" Stupak asked. : :The news reminds environmental groups who opposed the North American Free :Trade Agreement in 1993 of concerns they raised that the treaty could be :construed to regard water as an article of commerce that could not be :restricted in shipment by national laws. : :It also raises serious questions about the cumulative impact of this and :other water withdrawals on the economy and environment of the Great Lakes :Basin. :Dave Dempsey :Policy Director :Michigan Environmental Council :119 Pere Marquette, Suite 2A :Lansing, MI 48912 :[EMAIL PROTECTED] :www.mienv.org : : :*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* :# This message is being sent to the Lake Superior Alliance Email list, an :informal :* mailing list devoted to sharing information on environmental issues for :# the Lake Superior Region. To save message space, the list has been :suppressed. :* If you would like a copy of the list so that you may contribute, :# or you would like to be taken off the list, please send Email to: :* Bob Olsgard, Coordinator, Lake Superior Alliance :# <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> :* mail to: PO Box 472 :# Spooner, WI 54801 :* Ph. & Fx: 715/635-8171 :*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#*#* : : : : : :
