Environment Erie
Amount: $ 2267.20
Project Title: Stormwater Workshops Project
Project Description: Environment Erie will partner with Pennsylvania Sea Grant (PASG) and Penn State Cooperative Extension (PSCE) in developing a pair of workshops aimed towards educating professionals, applicators and residents on managing stormwater at the municipal and residential levels.
Faith in Place
Amount: $ 1000
Project Title: Educating Illinois Legislators on Hight Volume Hydraulic Fractring
Project Description: Grant funding will support Faith in Place’s efforts to work within the faith community to educate people about the danger that high-volume hydraulic fracturing for natural gas could present to the environment and particularly the water supply of Illinois, and to insure that a robust set of regulations is adopted to cover the practice in the state of Illinois. Activities will include educating over 900 congregational partners about the issue, and helping them to become advocates on the issue to protect the water of the state, including portions of the Lake Michigan basin.
Ohio Chapter Sierra Club
Amount: $ 1000
Project Title: Ohio Chapter Statewide Clean Water Project
Project Description: Grant funding will support the Sierra Club Ohio Chapter’s Statewide Clean Water Project and Water Sentinel network. This includes monitoring equipment and other materials necessary to equip and train Water Sentinels — volunteer citizen scientists — in the Black-Rocky, Cuyahoga, and Chagrin-Ashtabula sub-watersheds of Lake Erie. Water Sentinels will use the data to increase public awareness, identify polluted areas, and alert the proper authorities when water quality and stream health changes. Staff will facilitate collaboration between different sub-watersheds and produce interactive regional water quality maps.
Highway J Citizens Group
Amount: $ 3500
Project Title: Grassroots Initiative to Stop and Environmentally-Destructive Road Expansion Project in Wisconsin
Project Description: Grant funding will support High J Citizens Group work to seek a complete clean-up of worsening groundwater contamination problems in the Ackerville area caused by two nearby leaking landfills. This will include: 1) Further public appeals to the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) to effectuate this clean-up, and 2) Subsequent legal action to hold the landfill polluters fully accountable for their environmentally-destructive actions if our agency appeals do not achieve positive results.
Ojibway Defence
Amount: $ 2000
Project Title: Grassroots Activism Protecting Ojibway Tallgrass Prairie/Wetland Complex through Road Mortality Study
Project Description: Grant funding will support Ojibway Defence’s work to continue the Ojibway Prairie Road Mortality Study 2012-2013 in order to confirm hotspots and movement corridors of “species at risk” reptiles. This ongoing study will strengthen the ability to protect endangered reptiles in the region, including situating an ecopassage for Butler’s gartersnakes and future ecopassages. Both eastern foxsnake and Butler’s gartersnake are endangered in Canada .
Sled Dogs to Saint Paul
Amount: $ 1000
Project Title: Sled Dogs to Saint Paul Documentary
Project Description: Grant funding will support post-production and advocacy work related to the documentary project about former State Representative Frank Moe’s 362 mile trek from Grand Marais, Minnesota to the State Capitol in Saint Paul on a dog sled pulled by his team of ten dogs. The purpose of his journey, and this film, is to inform Minnesotans from the Arrowhead region to the Metropolitan areas about the potential hazards of the proposed sulfide mining projects slated for Northeastern Minnesota and to move them to action.
Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve
Amount: $ 4500
Project Title: Rural Community Watershed Planning and Mineral Extraction in the Upper Peninsula
Project Description: Grant funding will support creating a community watershed management plan. This will likely include networking with local agencies and the community, getting to know the watershed, defining and surveying critical areas, prioritizing pollutants, sources, and causes, determining objectives and goals, identifying systems of best management, identifying similar existing projects, informing and involving the public, evaluating the plan and assembling the document. Funds from Freshwater Future will be applied to all of the stages of the process and Yellow Dog Watershed Preserve staff will strive to accomplish as many as possible with the funding available.
Friends of the Land of Keweenaw
Amount: $ 2200
Project Title: FOLK Mining Education and Empowerment Campaign: An Assessment of New Mining’s Economic Impact on the Western UP
Project Description: With the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality’s (MDEQ) approval of the Eagle Mine in Marquette County, the way opened for a new wave of mining in the western region of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, which lies over a rich vein of sulfide ore. The two
Protect Our Water and Environmental Resources
Amount: $ 2000
Project Title: Acton Quarry
Project Description: Acton Quarry : Decision Making is a grassroots effort led by Protect Our Water and Environmental resources (P.O.W.E.R.) to stop the expansion and new license for the Acton Quarry in Halton Hills, Ontario. With the current licensed area, some 1300 acres a
Sierra Club Ontario-Great Lakes Section
Amount: $ 2000
Project Title: Protecting and Restoring Georgian Bay Wetlands
Project Description: Sierra Club is supporting a comparison of the health of aquatic life in Georgian Bay’s diked or impounded wetlands to natural wetlands. This information will be used in our public education and advocacy activities to influence wetland protection policies
Water Legacy
Amount: $ 2500
Project Title: Clean Water Act Sulfide Mining Advocacy
Project Description: Water Legacy’s Clean Water Act Sulfide Mining Advocacy Project will use legal and scientific advocacy, collaboration with tribal and agency staff and citizen engagement to urge that Clean Water Act (CWA) authority be exercised to scrutinize wetlands permi
Mohican Advocates, Inc.
Amount: $ 1500
Project Title: “Save Our Parks” Web Application
Project Description: The Ohio Legislature voted in 2011 to lease out Ohio’s State Parks and Forests for drilling, fracking, and logging operations. This means that the wetlands, streams, rivers and lakes within these lands could be degraded by siltation and direct contaminat
Concerned Citizens of Big Bay
Amount: $ 2000
Project Title: Air Quality Monitoring Issues Around Kennecott’s Eagle Mine
Project Description: The Concerned Citizens of Big Bay have recently become aware of some serious air quality issues in our area due to venting at the mine portal through what is believed to be an unregulated vent. There are no air quality monitors at the mine site or in the
Wisconsin Resources Protection Council
Amount: $ 2500
Project Title: Monitoring the Results of the Flambeau Mine near Ladysmith, Wisconsin
Project Description: In January 2011, WRPC, the Center for Biological Diversity and Laura Gauger jointly filed a citizen suit against Flambeau Mining Company (FMC; a subsidiary of Kennecott Minerals/Rio Tinto) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin,
Native American Educational Technologies, Inc.
Amount: $ 2500
Project Title: The Indigenous Voice Advocating for Our Mother Earth
Project Description: One of Lake Superior’s prime aquatic habitats is under serious threat from sulfide contaminated mining and Wisconsin’s environmental activists are turning to the Native American’s treaty rights to stop the disaster before it happens.