I am writing today to announce the closure of the Michigan Messenger. After four years of operation in Michigan, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news into a single site, The American Independent at Americanindependent.com. This is part of a shift in strategy, towards new forms [...]
An abstinence-only presentation provided to numerous school districts in Calhoun and Eaton Counties in October of this year provided false and misleading information to students about HIV, experts allege.
Two county registers of deeds filed a class action lawsuit Monday on behalf of Michigan’s 83 counties alleging that the Mortgage Electronic Registration Services owes millions of dollars in property title transfer taxes.
Despite evidence of the impact of mercury on children and public health, Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette last month joined with 24 other state attorneys general in filing a lawsuit to scuttle new EPA regulations that would reduce mercury emissions from power plants.
A continuing decline in demand for electricity may work against Wolverine Power Cooperative’s bid to build a 600 megawatt petroleum coke fired power plant along the shore of Lake Huron, Glenn Puit of the Great Lakes Bulletin News Service reports.
[A]ccording to minutes of the Wolverine board of directors’ October meeting obtained by the Great Lakes Bulletin News Service, Rick Kehl, the company’s vice president of accounting and risk management, reported that the cooperative’s peak electrical demand in September 2009 was 341 megawatts, as compared to 400 megawatts for September 2008—a 14.6 percent drop.
The news, which the company has not released publicly, comes at an inopportune moment in the company’s 30-month drive for permission from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality to build the plant. The agency must include a “needs” assessment in its permit decision-making process, and the one provided to MDEQ in August by the Michigan Public Service Commission concluded that Wolverine does not need the electricity from a new plant.
The Department of Environmental Quality says it expects to decide this month whether to approve an air permit for the proposed power plant.
According to the company website, Wolverine’s electric generating facilities in Tower, Gaylord, Hersey, Vestaburg and Burnips are capable of producing approximately 200 megawatts power.
The company supplies power to four transmission cooperatives that provide electricity to more than 220,000 homes.
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