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Great Lakes Commission releases proceedings from symposium on oil transportation in the Great Lakes region

Sep 28, 2017 | News and Announcements

Ann Arbor, Mich. – Proceedings from a recent symposium that focused on oil transportation in the Great Lakes region were released today. The Crude Move Symposium, held in June in Cleveland, highlighted risks and opportunities of different types of oil transportation in the region. Proceedings from the symposium are now available online.

Nearly 130 individuals representing federal, state and provincial governments, industry, nongovernmental organizations and academic stakeholders participated in-person and via webinar in the two-day symposium. Participants had the opportunity to discuss the complexity of crude oil movement throughout important northern basins and to increase their understanding of key issues including regional transportation, economics, hazards and risks, emergency response, and lessons learned from incidents in the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River region.

The proceedings of the symposium are available in a 39-page document that includes a summary of presentations and discussions at the symposium and potential next steps identified by participants. Video recordings of the symposium proceedings are also available online.

The symposium was sponsored by a partnership between the Great Lakes Commission, the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network, the Gulf of Mexico Sea Grant Oil Spill Science Outreach Program, the International Joint Commission, the Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative and the Joyce Foundation.

For more information about the symposium and GLC’s work on oil transportation, contact Michele Leduc-Lapierre at [email protected].  For more information about the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network’s work on oil transportation, contact Katherine Bunting-Howarth at [email protected].

More information is also available at www.glslcrudeoiltransport.org.


The Great Lakes Commission, led by chairman John Linc Stine, commissioner of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, is an interstate compact agency established under state and U.S. federal law and dedicated to promoting a strong economy, healthy environment and high quality of life for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence region and its residents. The Commission consists of governors’ appointees, state legislators, and agency officials from its eight member states. Associate membership for Ontario and Québec was established through the signing of a “Declaration of Partnership.” The Commission maintains a formal Observer program involving U.S. and Canadian federal agencies, tribal authorities, binational agencies and other regional interests. The Commission offices are located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Learn more at www.glc.org.

The Great Lakes Sea Grant Network is comprised of Sea Grant programs from Illinois-Indiana, Lake Champlain, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. Each program represents a unique partnerships between state universities and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Through its network of extension educators and its use of engaging communication and education techniques, the Great Lakes Sea Grant Network plays a central role in supplying the region and the nation with usable solutions to pressing problems and providing the basic information needed to better manage Great Lakes resources for present and future generations of Americans. Find out more at: greatlakesseagrant.com.

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