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News & Updates

Click here for the latest Cities Initiative Briefing

Click here for information on the Mayors' Great Lakes
Action Plan released May 5, 2009 in Toronto.

 

  • Cities Initiative Pushes for Unity to Keep Asian Carp Out
  • Highlights from the Midyear Board of Directors Meeting in Chicago, Illinois (December 10-11, 2009)
  • Mayors call for formal role in renegotiation and implementation of Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (December 11, 2009)
  • Click here for information on Asian carp management in the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal (Source: US Fish and Wildlife Service, December 2, 2009)
 
  • Information on Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River regional ecomony (Source: World Business Chicago)
  • Summary of the 2009 Annual Meeting and Conference in Trois-Rivieres, Quebec (June 17-19, 2009)
 
  • GLSLCI issues statement in response to NRDC's Testing the Waters 2009 Report (July 29, 2009)
 
  • Press Release: Cities Initiative expresses disappointment the small number of coastal restoration projects recently funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for the Great Lakes Region (July 10, 2009). 
 
  • Press Release: Cities Initiative and other Great Lakes partners call for approval of $475 million Great Lakes Restoration Initiative in U.S. 2010 federal budget (May 14, 2009)
 

Click here for more on the Mayors' Great Lakes Action Plan released May 5, 2009 in Toronto.

     
  • Press Release: Cities Initiative Applauds U.S. Federal Investment in Great Lakes (March 4, 2009)
 
  • Canadian and U.S. Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Mayors call for urgent economic recovery focused on investment in public infrastructure and creating jobs within Great Lakes and St. Lawrence region (December 12, 2008)
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  • Click here for the Local Investment in the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence report which found that local government invests more than $15 billion annually on Great Lakes and St. Lawrence protection and restoration!  (February 2008)
 
  • Federal Parties have their say on Great Lakes and St. Lawrence protection / Les chefs des partis federaux s’expriment au sujet de la protection des Grands Lacs et du Saint-Laurent (October 8, 2008):
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  • Mayors of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative call on Canadian Federal Party Leaders to Protect the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River (September 22, 2008)
    • Press Release - English / French
    • Letter to Elizabeth May, Leader, Green Party
    • Letter to Stephane Dion, Leader, Liberal Party
    • Letter to Stephen Harper, Leader, Conservative Party
    • Letter to Jack Layton, Leader, New Democratic Party
    • Letter to Guilles Duceppe, Leader, Bloc Québécois
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  • The Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative calls on U.S. Presidential Candidates to Protect the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River (September 26, 2008)
    • Letter to Senator John McCain, Presidential Candidate for the Republican Party
    • Letter to Senator Barack Obama, Presidential Candidate for the Democratic Party
  • Bi-national Planning and Water Stewardship at the Regional Municipality of Niagara report (October 2, 2008)
 
  • Article from On The Bay magazine about declining water levels in the Georgian Bay featuring Mayor Ellen Anderson from the Town of the Blue Mountains (Summer 2008)

  • Mayor George Heartwell of Grand Rapids testifies to the U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary regarding the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact (July 30, 2008).

    Press Release

    Mayor Heartwell's Testimony

     

  • GLSLCI 2007-2008 Annual Report (4.4 MB)
 
  • Schedule of public meetings and hearings on IJC's Proposed Order and Plan for Lake Ontario-St. Lawrence flow regulation
 
  • Press Release: Great Lakes Partners announce launch of new tool to help identify contamination at Great Lakes beaches (May 30, 2008)
 
  • Press Release: Mayors applaud Wisconsin efforts towards ratification of the Great Lakes Compact (April 9, 2008).
 
  • Members of Congress James Oberstar, Earl Blumenauer, and Eddie Bernice Johnson submitted a letter to the U.S. Government Accountability Office to explore the creation of a Clean Water Trust Fund (January 2008)
 
  • Town of Ajax report and letter to Minister of the Environment John Gerretson on Proposed Provincial Actions to Limit Phosphorous Loadings from Sewage Treatment Plants in the Lake Simcoe Basin (February 19, 2008)
 
  • Press release on responses from U.S. Presidential Candidates to questions from GLSLCI Mayors (February 18, 2008)
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  • Article featuring Mayor Ellen Anderson from the Town of the Blue Mountains on key Great Lakes and St. Lawrence issues from the Owen Sound Sun Times, Don Crosby (January 2, 2008).
 
  • Great Lakes Governors send a letter to presidential candidates calling for support to protect and restore the Great Lakes (November 8,2007)


  • The United States House and Senate have voted to override the President's veto of the Water Resources Development Act 2007.  To read more, click here. (November 8, 2007)
 
  • Press Release: Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Mayors urge Congress to override President's veto of the Water Resources Development Act 2007 (November 6, 2007)
 
  • Click here to see the Town of The Blue Mountains Resolution on plastic bottled water (October, 2007)
 
  • Click here to see the latest on municipal actions regarding the BP Whiting refinery and increased pollution into Lake Michigan
 
  • Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Special Report on the 2007 Annual Meeting (September 2007) and link to presentations from the meeting
 
  • From Rust to Blue: Jobs, the Economy, and Great Lakes Restoration, a Michigan Land Use Institute Special Report (September 2007)
 
  • Testing the Waters 2007: Swimming in the Great Lakes, a report by the National Resources Defense Council (September 2007)
 
  • America’s North Coast: A Benefit-Cost Analysis of a Program to Protect and Restore the Great Lakes, Researched and Written by John C. Austin, Soren Anderson, Paul N. Courant, and Robert E. Litan (September 2007)
 
  • Read about the late President Andreé P. Boucher
 
  • Click here to view Grand Rapids Mayor George Heartwell's video question for the CNN/You Tube Republican Debate
 
 
  • Marquette, MI City Commission Resolution regarding BP Whiting Refinery (August 13, 2007)
 
  • Overview of the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Economy, prepared by World Business Chicago.  For an extended version, click here.
 
  • Click here to view presentations made at the GLSLCI 2007 Annual Meeting held in Grand Rapids on July 11-13th, 2007.
 
  • Highland Park, IL City Council resolution regarding BP Whiting Refinery increased pollution to Lake Michigan (July 23, 2007)
 
  • H. Con. Res. 187, regarding the increase pollution to Lake Michigan by BP, was approved by the US House of Representatives (July 25, 2007)
 
  • Letter from Mayors of Milwaukee, Racine, Superior, Green Bay and Sheboygan Wisconsin to Indiana Department of Environmental Management (July 24, 2007)
 
  • Radio clip from Paul McDonald, AM800 CKLW Radio, Windsor, Ontario regarding the BP Refinery (July 24, 2007)
 
  • GLSLCI Letter to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune regarding BP Whiting Refinery (July 20, 2007)
  • Press Release: GLSLCI Mayors Call for Less Pollution from BP Refinery to Lake Michigan
    (July 18, 2007)
 
 
  • Redesigning the Governance Structure of the Great Lakes: A Report to the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative by Mauricio Gonzalez, MPP and Duncan Kisia, MPP of the University of Chicago, Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy (June 29, 2007)
 
 
  • Windsor Star article on City of Windsor Water Infrastructure Project (May 11, 2007)
 
  • Press Release: Mayor Brian McMullan's Testimony on the Safeguarding and Sustaining Ontario's Water Act, 2007 (May 9, 2007)
  • The Great Lakes: An Analysis of Federal Specific,

Federal General and State Programs by Braulia Espinosa, Kara Knack and Ginger Pitch of the University of Illinois Chicago (May 3, 2007)

  • Kingston, Ontario Whig-Standard editorial on GLSLCI membership (February 14, 2007)
 
  • Press Release: GLSLCI provides comments on US Coast Guard proposal for weapons training on Great Lakes (November 13, 2006)
 
  • Press Release: Mayor Becker testifies to Congress on the Great Lakes Regional Collaboration (September 2006)
 
  • Mayor Rigby Receives the first His Worship Timothy Rigby Award for Local Leadership in Protecting and Restoring the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River (July 2006)
  • Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Intiative 2006 Annual Report (June 2006)
  • Remarks of the Honourable Laurel Broten, Ontario's Minister of Environment (April 2006)
  • Press Release: Mayor Daley Supports Federal Legislation to Protect the Great Lakes (April 2006)
  • Hegewisch Marsh Receives Grants for Restoration (February 2006)
  • Great Lakes St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Conference, June 21-23, 2006 (February 2006)
  • Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Sustainable Water Resources Agreement (December 2005)
 
  • Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River Basin Water Resources Compact (December 2005)
 
  • Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative Annual Report (September 2005)
 
  • MIT Honors Mayor Richard M. Daley for Greening Chicago (March 30, 2005)
 
  • Canadian Great Lakes and St. Lawrence River mayors chart a course for the care of the world's largest freshwater system (March 2005)
 
  • Great Lakes Regional Collaboration Meeting in Chicago, IL (December 3, 2004).
    • Remarks of Governor Jim Doyle, Governor of Wisconsin
    • Tribal Presider's Comments - Chairman Frank Ettawageshik, Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians
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  • Greening the Heartland 2005: Cost, Practice and Policy. Presented by the City of Chicago, sponsored by the U.S. Green Building Council 's Chicago and Other Regional Heartland Chapters.
 
  • Executive Order establishing Great Lakes Interagency Task Force and promoting regional collaboration of national significance for the Great Lakes, May 18, 2004
  • Great Lakes Cities Initiative Director testifies in support of federal legislation to address ballast water dumping, GLCI Press Release (March 25, 2004)
 
  • Mayors ask EPA Chief to support Great Lakes restoration, GLCI Press Release (January 23, 2004)
 
  • Governor Taft's remarks at the Great Lakes Cities Initiative Winter Meeting (December 12, 2003)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
  • "Great Lakes mayors seek more control"
    Gary Washburn, Chicago Tribune, Metro Section 2, Friday, (November 8, 2002) page 2
 
  • "Daley back plan to save Great Lakes"
    by Fran Spielman, Chicago Sun-Times, Friday, (November 8, 2002) Metro page 14.
 

 
 

Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Cities Initiative

George K. Heartwell, Mayor of Grand Rapids , Chair
Richard M. Daley, Mayor of Chicago, Founding U.S. Chair
David Miller, Mayor of Toronto, Founding Canadian Chair
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