Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United (GLU) urge that existing authorities be exercised to delineate complementary policies for the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River bottomlands that: As a first priority, identify and map areas that should be protected from any significant lakebed alternations, and designate them for legal protection. Prohibit uses of lakebed that are not water-dependent. Identify locations for sitting of projects in areas that can tolerate such disturbances. Prevent degradation of aquatic habitat for fish and other aquatic organisms, water-dependent
birds, and other wildlife from proposed uses. Require a demonstration of clear and substantial public benefit, including but not limited to environmental benefit—including the reduction of electric generation from coal-fired power
plants or nuclear waste generating–facilities—before authorizing such uses. Require the assessment of alternatives to bottomland-use proposals.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United call on the federal Minister of the Environment to realize the overwhelming public concern about a project that can inflict unmentionable harm on our children and future generations and, Be it further resolved that Great Lakes United opposes the planned construction of this Deep Geologic Repository and demands that the federal Minister of the Environment have this first-of-its-kind project brought before an Independent Panel for an in-depth Review with full public participation, under the provisions of the Canadian Environmental Assessment Act.

Be it therefore resolved that Great Lakes United call on the Government of the Province of Ontario to 1) introduce Advanced Renewable Tariffs as a mechanism to foster the rapid development of farmer-, cooperative-, and locally owned renewable power projects and 2) direct the Lieutenant Governor in Council to: Define qualifying projects by capacity, technology, and form of ownership or capital structure
Institute Advanced Renewable Tariffs that guarantee a minimum price for a minimum term to qualifying projects. Set allowable charges and requirements applicable to transmitters and distributors for evaluating, connecting to, and providing service to qualifying projects, and Direct transmitters and distributors to 1) issue standard contracts for interconnection written in clear language, and 2) guarantee the right of interconnection within a maximum of three months from receipt of a request for interconnection.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United urge Great Lakes basin governments to create comprehensive, long-term energy strategies with extensive public input, addressing among other things: the environmental impacts of manipulating Great Lakes basin water flows to facilitate short-term increases in the output of existing hydroelectric power plants to meet temporary energy shortfalls, and the environmental impacts of new hydroelectric power dams, particularly those proposed in previously undammed rivers.

Be it therefore resolved that Great Lakes United calls on the International Joint Commission to strongly recommend that the Parties: legislate a ban on the restart of laid-up nuclear reactors and on new nuclear power projects, and require nuclear plant owners and operators to immediately stop placing radioactive spent fuel containers at the shores of the Great Lakes, and Be it further resolved that Great Lakes United calls on the International Joint Commission to strongly recommend to the Parties power generated from nuclear and fossil-fueled stations be replaced by mandated energy conservation and renewable energy generation at an accelerated pace.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United urges the Government of Quebec to: not to approve the expansion of the outdoor high-level radioactive waste facility at Gentilly-2, and instruct the Board of Directors of Hydro-Quebec not to approve the planned repairs of the Gentilly-2 reactor, and announce as a matter of public policy that Quebec will be the first jurisdiction in North America to phase out of nuclear power as of 2008 at the latest, by which time Gentilly-2 will be permanently shut down, and announce as a matter of public policy that funds which would have been allocated to the repair of Gentilly- 2 will instead be invested in community-based energy conservation projects throughout Quebec.

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the Canadian government, and specifically the Minister of Natural Resources, and the agency under the Minister's direction, the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, introduce and support legislation to make generators keep their intermediate grade radioactive waste safe-guarded at point of origin.

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that Great Lakes United calls upon the Canadian Government to halt construction of the new high level radioactive waste storage facility at the Bruce nuclear complex until such time the above concerns are fully addressed complete with meaningful and thorough public hearings in Michigan and the United States; and BE IT ALSO RESOLVED that Great Lakes United reconfirms our previous resolutions calling upon the U.S. and Canadian Governments to begin to immediately phase out all nuclear power plants within the Great Lakes Basin, and to utilize and research less ecologically devastating forms of energy, including but not limited to energy conservation, energy efficiency, solar and wind energy.

BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United is on record as opposing any and all legislation which would override the State of Nevada’s Notice of Disapproval and which would require radioactive waste transportation near or through the Great Lakes states to Yucca Mountain;

And BE IT RESOLVED, that Great Lakes United supports the creation of an independent presidential commission to re examine the U.S. national radioactive waste policy.

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.