Extractive Industries (Oil, Gas, and Minerals)

 To help with these efforts please contact the people heading up each initiative.

  • Advocate against fracking and other destructive drilling practices (Nancy Shiffler, Dick Brown)
  • Work with township citizens to promote more local control of and public participation in decisions about oil and gas drilling in their communities (James D’Amour, John Ford, Nancy Shiffler)
  • Fight the permitting of unnecessary and destructive pipelines locally (e.g., the ET Rover and Nexus natural gas pipelines), statewide (e.g., the Line 5 oil pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac), and nationally (e.g., the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline). (Nancy Shiffler, Dick Brown)

 

Hydraulic Fracturing in Michigan

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