BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED that Great Lakes United spare no effort to convince the
parties that all five Great Lakes must have LAMPS and that Lake Huron with all its waters be protected by a Lakewide Management Plan as called for in the GLWQA.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United, in concert with its member
groups, will exert pressure upon the federal government of Canada to ensure that the following elements are in place prior to passing the revised regulation into law: Acute lethality tests based on both rainbow trout and Daphnia magna; Lowered limits for pollutants on the MMLER list of substances; A legal link between the Environmental Effects Monitoring Program and the regulation; A national toxicity registry to give Canadians access to important monitoring information.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United commends the U.S. Government for
recognizing the importance of sea lamprey control and the need to pursue alternatives to lampricides; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that Great Lakes United commends the Canadian Federal Government for its increased commitment to the program; BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that Great Lakes United urges the Congress of the United States to fund the commission at the proposed $12 million level so that it can continue to suppress sea lamprey populations in the Great Lakes while improving implementation and research into alternative sea lamprey control techniques.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that governments be requested to legislate the permanent
closure and decommissioning of theses reactors and withdraw any and all publicly funded subsidies,and; BE IT FURTHER RESOVLED that all those public subsidies immediately be shifted into new decentralized generation facilities using clean and safe, sustainable renewable energy sources to help restore and maintain the chemical, physical and biological integrity of the waters of the Great Lakes
Basin ecosystem.

Therefore be it resolved: Great Lakes United calls upon the US and Canadian Federal
Governments to reaffirm their commitments to a strong and effective, legally binding global POPs treaty, and to instruct their POPS negotiating team to revise the stances they have been taking in a number of key areas: Elimination, loopholes, precaution, and final obligation. Be it further resolved that Great Lakcs United will assist its member organizations, other Great Lakes institutions, and other organizations in efforts to convince the US and Canadian governments to revise their POPs negotiating stance in advance of the December rneering in order to assure that a strong and effective, legally binding, global POPs treaty is agreed.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United calls on the U.S. Congress to immediately stop the Great Lakes Navigation System review, and calls on the Canadian Government to withhold financial or administrative support to the said study.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United urges the state, provincial and First Nations governments of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River basin to institute a moratorium on the siting fo new high-capacity groundwater wells within the basin until the governments have put into law and regulation:
1. A comprehensive means for assessing the ecological impacts of groundwater removal by high-capacity wells and,
2. A standard for judging the acceptability of such groundwater removal operations of “no significant harm” without reference to mitigation and,
3. A system of both indemnification and compensation for any harm that may at some
future time be discovered to have been caused by such groundwater removal operations.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United and its member organizations
implement the following strategies: Urge the immediate passage of federal legislation banning new oil and gas drilling in the Great Lakes and directional drilling under the Great Lakes; and, continue to seek a permanent moratorium on drilling on a statewide and provincewide basis.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United: Congratulates Canada and applauds its action to become the first country to ratify the
Stockholm Convention on POPs; Urges President Bush, through his staff and advisors, to expeditiously transmit the POPs Treaty to the US Senate for its “advice and consent” to ratification; Urges the United States Senate to ratify the Stockholm Convention in this first session of the 107th Congress so that the United States will also be one of the early countries to ratify the Convention and set an example of leadership for other countries to follow.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United calls for a moratorium on new permits for sunken log extraction in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin.
Be it further resolved that Great Lakes United calls for environmentally sound scientific criteria for the issuance of permits across the wide range of aquatic habitats in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United request the United States and Canadian governments to negotiate a new agreement on Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River
biodiversity and habitat for the protection and restoration of the Great Lakes-St.
Lawrence River ecosystem.