LANSING – U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell and U.S. Rep. Candice Miller joined in a statement Thursday urging Governor Rick Snyder to vote against a plan to allow Waukesha, Wisconsin, to draw water from Lake Michigan.
A regional advisory body had given its nod to the plan this week with some substantial changes to the city’s application, but officials made it clear that Snyder had not yet decided how he would vote when the official decision comes next month.
Dingell (D-Dearborn) and Miller (R-Harrison Township) said in their letter that approving the diversion would be a step backward form the environmental gains that have been made around the lakes.
“We firmly believe the approval of this request would threaten the precious, finite resources provided by our Lakes,” the letter said. “As one of eight votes on the Governors’ Compact Council, we urge you to vote against this application.”
“Since the Great Lakes Compact was signed in 2008, we’ve seen significant improvements in the management and conservation of the Great Lakes’ finite water supply,” Ms. Miller and Ms. Dingell said in a joint statement after sending the letter. “Approving this application to divert water would be a precedent-setting setback that would threaten the progress made by the Compact and, ultimately, our magnificent Great Lakes. That is why, today, we are urging Gov. Snyder to deny this application when it comes before the Compact Council next month.”
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