[All] Fw: Tar sands crude shipping on the Great Lakes?

[Louisette Lanteigne]

On Monday, March 10, 2014 2:22:37 PM, "Lyman Welch, Alliance for the Great Lakes" <allliance at greatlakes.org> wrote:
 
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As shipping season starts, we face a choice on tar sands transport
Dear Louisette,
The Great Lakes region faces a critical choice — should the lakes become a thoroughfare for tar sands crude oil? Join us for a webinar on Thursday, March 27, at noon Central to learn more.
The opening of the shipping locks along the St. Lawrence Seaway and Sault St. Marie are an annual rite of spring around the Great Lakes. But as communities from Montreal to Duluth prepare for the start of another Great Lakes shipping season, our region faces a critical choice.
Plans are in the works to dramatically increase the flow of tar sands crude to the Midwest, and a tar sands shipping route has already been mapped across the waters of the Great Lakes.
Join us Thursday, March 27 to learn more about the questions raised by plans to ship tar sands crude on the lakes. You’ll hear multiple perspectives on the issue:
Emma Lui, National Water Campaigner, Council of Canadians, will provide a Canadian perspective on the threat that tar sands shipment could pose to the lakes.
Jerome A. Popiel, Incident Management and Preparedness Advisor, Ninth U.S. Coast Guard District, will discuss the Coast Guard’s current prevention, preparedness and response regime and what the industry, the guard and other stakeholders would have to do before heavy oil is transported on the lakes.
Andrew Slade, Northeast Minnesota Program Coordinator, Minnesota Environmental Partnership, will provide a local perspective on the proposal for an oil shipping complex in Superior, Wis., how public input moved Wisconsin DNR to require an environmental assessment for the dock project, and how Lake Superior’s waters should be protected.
Register today to get call-in information and reserve your spot.
Sincerely,
Lyman Welch
Water Quality Program Director
*This  event is open to the media. Reporters will be asked to hold their questions until the end of the session.
If you have any questions, please contact Nate Drag at ndrag at greatlakes.org.

Information about our guest speakers:
Emma Lui is the national water campaigner with the Council of Canadians, based in Ottawa, Canada. Emma’s work focuses on the Great Lakes, human rights, water privatization and the connection between energy and water. She has worked at the Canadian Human Rights Commission and has an M.A. in political economy. 

Jerome Popiel assumed duties as Incident Management and Preparedness Advisor, Ninth Coast Guard District, in 2011. Prior to this assignment, he served as Search and Rescue Program Manager and Chief, Command Center, Ninth Coast Guard District, where he was responsible for the command center’s coordination and oversight of Ninth District responses to multi-mission incidents in the eight-state Great Lakes region. Mr. Popiel previously served as Assistant Vice President, Operations, for The Great Lakes Towing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, and acting General Manager for Tugz International, Port Everglades, Florida. 

Andrew Slade is a naturalist and writer who has been active in North Shore conservation issues for 20 years. He works in the Duluth office of Minnesota Environmental Partnership. He has served on the boards of the Superior Hiking Trail Association and the North Shore Scenic Drive Council. Mr. Slade is author of Skiing the North Shore, Camping the North Shore and Hiking the North Shore. He was Director of Education at Lake Superior Center from 1993 to 2000. From 2002 to 2008 he served as Executive Director of Sugarloaf: The North Shore Stewardship Association. Mr. Slade holds a B.A. in Environmental Education from the University of Minnesota and an M.S. in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana. 

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