The Countdown Is On: Ban Drilling in the Great Lakes!
Countdown to Catastrophe
Will the legislature put a ban on drilling in the Great Lakes on the November ballot or will we risk more spills?
July 28th, 2010 - photos of the Oil Disaster in Calhoun and Kalamazoo counties. Over 1,000,000+ gallons of crude oil flowed into Talmadge Creek and then into the Kalamazoo River, called the worst oil spill disaster in the Midwest.
Keep this from happening again in Michigan. Sign our petition and urge your lawmakers to ban drilling in the Great Lakes.
Courtesy The Sierra Club Licensed under Creative Commons 2.0
The clock is ticking. Our state Legislature has until September 2 to put a ban on Great Lakes drilling on the November ballot so Michigan voters can choose to protect our waters - permanently. Every day Speaker of the House Andy Dillon and Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop fail to allow a vote is a day we're closer to failing to permanently prevent a BP-style catastrophe for our waters.
Our Countdown to Catastrophe will keep track of the days left for the Legislature to act to put a Great Lakes drilling ban on the November ballot. You can help by signing our petition to lawmakers urging them to meet the September 2 deadline for ballot measures.
Michigan has 3,000 miles of coastline to protect, along with hundreds of communities that depend directly on the health of the Great Lakes. Powerful oil interests know that if voters get a chance to ban drilling in the lakes, it will happen. So let's make sure lawmakers do what's right for Michigan and not Big Oil.