The Upper Peninsula Environmental Coalition Livestream Series “This Is It!” Presents: “Marquette Spaceport – Development at Any Cost?” with Dennis Ferraro, President, Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior. Join us on Thursday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m.

The next “This Is It!” livestream of the Upper Peninsula Environmental Coalition features a close look at a controversial proposal, sprung upon the Marquette community with great fanfare last summer: a spaceport on Lake Superior. Our guest will be Dennis Ferraro, president of a new nonprofit called Citizens for a Safe & Clean Lake Superior. CSCLS is a broad coalition of Marquette County and U.P. residents arising from the public outcry against a proposal to construct a commercial rocket launch site on Lake Superior’s shoreline north of Marquette. The proposal has come from a so-called developer named Michigan Aerospace Manufacturers Association.

After an online petition garnered 21,000 signatures opposing a spaceport, CSCLS formed to defeat the plan, which is seen as damaging to an outdoor recreational-based economy, a danger to public safety, an interference with vested property rights, and a threat to the quality of life enjoyed by Powell and Marquette Township residents.

When Ferraro, a retired trial attorney with long-standing family ties to the UP, took up residence three years ago with his family on the shoreline of Lake Superior near Marquette, he was inspired to become involved in environmental issues. After getting his feet wet and learning from activists, Ferraro now finds himself as president of CSCLS. He will make the case that there is no compelling need to industrialize the pristine Lake Superior shoreline at the estate of Granot Loma.

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