Marky Miller

British Petroleum.

They do have a refinery not far off from Toledo, but I think that it was more about, you know, not wanting this idea of rights of nature to take off. But, you know, we do live here, and we're not going to sit back and be poisoned.

Our premise was to change the notion that nature is merely property, and that if you own the permit, that you get to destroy it to harm it. So by giving Lake Erie its own set of rights, we have a better way of enforcing protections.

Well, much like a child, we often have someone else speak on their behalf. And I think that tends to be our relationship with Lake Erie, that we become trustees of this lake.

Sure.

Definitely not.

We lost access to our drinking water for three days. It impacted 500,000 people. They couldn't bathe. They couldn't touch the water. You couldn't do your laundry, wash your dishes. Water became a really scarce commodity. It wasn't available.

We realized how vulnerable we were and how precious the resource was that it could be taken away just like that.

We found out that BP was basically the sole funder of the campaign against the Lake Erie Bill of Rights.

BP, yep.