Great Lakes United is an international coalition dedicated to preserving and restoring the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River ecosystem. The coalition is made up of member organizations representing environmentalists, conservationists, hunters and anglers, labor unions, community groups, and citizens of the United States, Canada, and First Nations and Tribes.

Carole Clinch, Research Coordinator for People for Safe Drinking Water (Ontario, Canada), submitted a resolution to Great Lakes United for the members to vote. The results were announced May 20, 2009 during an electronic, annual general meeting. 

The resolution (at www.fluoridealert.org/glu.resolution.passed.5-20-09.pdf) states:
Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United supports the United States Environmental Protection Agency unions (US EPA Unions), Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) statements and professionals world-wide that the practice of artificial drinking water fluoridation be terminated.

Therefore be it resolved that Great Lakes United supports the United States Environmental Protection Agency unions (US EPA Unions), Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment (CAPE) statements and professionals world-wide that the practice of artificial drinking water fluoridation be terminated.

This resolution passed with a vote:
16 for the resolution
10 against the resolution
62% voted in favor of the resolution.

53% of GLU members participated in the online voting.
The results are available at www.glu.org/meeting09

THANKS to Carole for her continued outstanding efforts as one of Ontario's dynamic fluoridation activists.

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