On July 26th 2010, a pipeline that carries oil from Indiana to Ontario leaked and spilled about 840,000 gallons of oil —about 100 tanker trucks full—into a creek near Marshall, Michigan, that leads to the Kalamazoo River. The spilled oil could be carried all the way to Lake Michigan, as recent storms have led to high water levels and fast-moving currents.
Between the BP oil spill in the Gulf, the recent gas leak in Constantine, and now this disastrous oil spill near the Kalamazoo River, it’s clear that Michigan has to act now to protect our valuable natural resources from pollution and corporate carelessness. Michigan needs politicians to take bold action to ban oil and gas drilling in the Great Lakes and hold corporate polluters responsible for all cleanup costs and damages caused by their negligence.
Join fellow citizens from across Michigan in calling on the state legislature to take bold action and pass a proposal by Senator Glenn Anderson that will allow voters in
November to:
- Guarantee that polluters pay for all cleanup and damage costs, rather than wasting taxpayers’ dollars
- Permanently ban all oil and gas drilling in the Great Lakes, both off-shore drilling and onshore “slant” drilling
- Allow Michigan citizens to hold corporate polluters accountable for the damage they cause
Voters deserve the right to make sure disasters like this never happen again, and our time to act is now. Show your support by signing our petition!
Thanks for your support!
Doug Spade
www.DougSpade.com
