Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United recommend that:
The Great Lakes Fishery Commission requests the regulators of Great Lakes states on the 316b fish kill permits to adopt short and long terms and conditions to 3316b intake permits.

The Great Lakes Fishery Commission requests that there also be a permit term and condition that would require payment to the Great Lakes Fishery Trust based on the quantity and type of fish kills to aide in research and programs that support and sustain fish in the Great Lakes.

Great Lakes states, provinces, tribes and First Nations adopt short and long terms and conditions to hydroelectric intake permits.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United strongly advises respective governments and jurisdictions to closely scrutinize the process and declaration of a decommissioned nuclear power reactor as "greenfield" or "brownfield". That a thorough, independent investigation to determine site characterization; liabilities; declarations of legacy contaminations; binding agreements; jurisdictional authority all be conducted prior to declaration of site status and prior to any transfer or lease of said properties. If after this scrutinization
remediation is indicated, then it is advised that remediation occur at the expense of current owner of said properties with a specific time table.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United urge each jurisdiction in the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin to pursue a goal of No New Water by living within their existing water quantities and sources, including accommodating any community growth within existing water supplies.

Therefore be it further resolved that Great Lakes United push for the goal of no new water in the conservation plans in development as per the Great Lakes–St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement.

Therefore be it further resolved that Great Lakes United urge each Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River jurisdiction to direct funds towards the conservation and reuse of water in lieu of expansion of existing water sources and development of new water sources.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United supports a precautionary moratorium on all new or expanding Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) that produce untreated animal waste; and, Therefore be it further resolved that Great Lakes United supports: The improvement and similar wastewater transportation, delivery, and treatment systems on each CAFO site within the Great Lakes watershed, at least as stringent as the U.S. federal or Canadian provincial water quality mandates and standards required of municipalities producing the same volume of human waste; and that these improvements should apply to all medium and large livestock operations; and, that safe nutrient management practices and disposal of sludge should be included in the requirements in order to maintain adequate water quality standards in ground and surface waters.

Therefore, be it resolved that Great Lakes United urges the DOE and NYSERDA to immediately select the Site-wide Waste Removal cleanup approach at West Valley in order to effectively protect public health and the Great Lakes region from the West Valley’s hazardous radioactivity; and,
Therefore be it further resolved that Great Lakes United opposes radioactive waste reprocessing due to its inevitable risks of nuclear weapons proliferation and environmental devastation, as well as astronomical cost to taxpayers; and, Therefore be it further resolved to deliver a copy of this resolution to the appropriate DOE and NYSERDA officials by their June 8, 2009 deadline for public comments on the West Valley Draft Environmental Impact Statement and decommissioning plan, as well as to other government agencies and public officials.

Resource for the GLU Green Energy/ Nuclear-Free Task Force campaign to block the shipment of radioactive nuclear steam generators by Bruce Power.

Therefore be it resolved that the Canada/United States Air Quality Agreement strengthened by the parties to the agreement to include annexes that include objectives addressing:

• Nitrogen oxide emissions from stationary sources in Canada and the United States
• Volatile organic compounds emissions from stationary and mobile souces in Canada and the United States
• Air toxics emissions from stationary sources in Canada and the United States
• Particulate matter emissions from stationary and mobile sources in Canada and the United States
• Greenhouse gases emissions from stationary and mobile sources in Canada and the United State

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United formally endorses the findings of the Toxic Air Pollution in the Great Lakes Basin: A Call for Action; and

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United participate in the ongoing public participation process on the proposed Canadian Environmental Protection Act, dealing with the control of toxic air emissions;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the member organizations of Great Lakes United will work to develop an implementation strategy for the regulatory and research recommendation of the report; and

FINALLY, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United support federal legislative field hearings in the Great Lakes Basin on the issue and amendments to federal Clean Air Acts to carry out the goals of the report.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United set up a transboundary working group in conjunction with the Zero Discharge Alliance to develop a strategy for implementation of the air toxics provisions of the Clean Air Act and similar Canadian clean air initiatives and strategies for applying the policy of zero discharge to air toxics in accordance with Annex 15 of the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement.
 

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United emphatically reaffirms its resolution on incineration of municipal solid waste as adopted at the Annual Meeting on May 18, 1986, and opposes the construction of the Detroit Resource Recovery Facility unless it is equipped with state of the art technology including a baghouse and dry scrubber;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that any incinerator must not be allowed to operate without a proper emission monitoring system for toxic pollutants in place, the results of which must be available to governments and publics in both the United States and Canada;

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that an integrated waste management strategy must be developed with an emphasis on, and articulation of plans to implement recycling and waste reduction programs. Any such strategy should contain mechanisms to provide for public participation in all stages of development.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that any new municipal waste incinerators not be built until the affected area has exhausted all efforts to reduce at least 50% of its waste through recycling, recovery, reuse, reduction, composting, and other alternative waste management strategies other than landfilling, and only then can such facitilities be built if they meet the standards of lowest achievable emission rates.

FINALLY, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United members continue to urge Mayor Coleman Young, the City of Detroit, and Governor Blanchard to support these resolutions and the organization consider joining the appropriate legal case which would force state of the art pollution control devices on the plant.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United urges the governments of Canada, Ontario and Quebec to develop a comprehensive strategy to control emissions of nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds; AND

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that such a strategy should include the following elements:
1. Reduction of volatility of gasoline sold in Ontario and Quebec between May and September;
2. Tougher tailpipe emission standards on new motor vehicles sold in Canada;
3. Mandatory in-use venicle inspection and maintenance progrzms; and
4. Further controls on emissions of volatile organic compounds from stationary sources.

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United opposes proposed legislation in Michigan and elsevrhere in the Great Lakes Basin that would allow toxic incinerator ash to be disposed of in municipal solid waste landfills.