No Pure Water, No “Pure Michigan” – Sulfide and Uranium Mining Dangers

Our treasurer, Duncan Campbell, was published in the Traverse City Record-Eagle this week. The focus was how if there’s no Pure Water, there can’t be a “Pure Michigan.”

There was a couple key takeaways in this piece, but one of them is that our water is under threat because there’s virtually no safe way to conduct sulfide and uranium mining in such a water-rich environment like Michigan. If we don’t ensure that mining operations are at least 2,000 feet away from our precious water, like it says in the ballot language, we’re putting way too much of Michigan’s present and future at risk.

To learn more about the dangers of sulfide mining, check out our Dangers of Sulfide Mining page – and/or view the Traverse City Record-Eagle piece on the web.

No Pure Water, No Pure Michigan: Traverse City Record-Eagle

Who hasn’t been riveted by the spectacular images of Michigan in the award-winning Pure Michigan ads? Many of these spots focus on our state’s most defining feature — water.

Each of us has a favorite stream, river, lake or Great Lake — the inland seas that make Michigan one of the world’s most easily identifiable places. As the stewards of the world’s largest fresh water reservoir, we know there is no pure Michigan without pure water.

Read the entire piece at the Traverse City Record Eagle