This article by Athena Cocoves appeared in the Toledo City Paper on September 12, 2018.
If you ask the grassroots organization Toledoans for Safe Water, the answer is clear: Yes, and it is the best way to protect the people’s right to access safe and clean water and the Lake’s right to exist and flourish.
To make sure the Lake’s rights are recognized, Toledoans for Safe Waterworked with the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) to draft The Lake Erie Bill of Rights, which would recognize the Lake’s “rights to exist and flourish and to protect drinking water.”
Despite being found to have gathered more than a sufficient number of signatures to qualify the Toledo City charter amendment for the November ballot, the Lucas County Board of Elections (BOE) voted on August 28 to keep the citizens initiative off the ballot. MORE…