THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United supports prohibition of logging for the purpose of commercial timber extraction on federal lands, as the first step towards managing Great Lakes forested ecosystems sustainably.

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 GLU urges maximum waste reduction, reuse, recycling
and composting efforts to dramatically reduce the waste of valuable resources and the contamination of the environment through disposal; AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that GLU opposes the export of garbage korn communities where the garbage is generated; and BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that GLU supports legislation prohibiting the flow of waste from one region to another, including legislation that will give individual states, provinces, municipalities, and tribal and First Nation territories the authority to prohibit the flow of such
waste across their borders.

Fish advisories are warnings to the public from state health departments and federal agencies that eating certain fish poses a danger to health because of chemical contamination. They provide graphic public testimony to the risks chemical contamination poses to local and regional ecosystems. The Great Lakes region of the United States contains a disproportionate share of the nation’s fish advisories. While the states bordering the Great Lakes account for 27 percent of the nation’s people, they are home to 75 percent of the nation’s fish advisories and 72 percent of all of the nation’s fish advisories due to POPs contamination. Fully 100 percent of the Great Lakes waters and their connecting waters are under advisories.

Energy companies view the lakebeds of the Great Lakes as a "new frontier" for the routing of cross-lake oil and gas pipelines and electric transmission lines. Efforts to harvest high-speed winds have also spurred plans to anchor wind energy systems offshore or along the coasts of the Great Lakes. This factsheet provides an overview of the issue.