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.
According to a timeline of the Enbridge oil spill released by Rep. Mark Schauer (D-Battle Creek) the pipeline company repeatedly stopped and started its 6B line after noticing spikes in pipeline pressure readings.
Noel Griese, editor of Energy Pipeline News, says he believes that this repeated restarting of the pipeline caused the spill to become much worse than it otherwise would have been.
With a five-foot rupture gash in the pipe at the 3 o’clock position in the trench, if the pipe was shut down when the controllers saw a pressure drop in the hydraulic nomographs, it should have spilled far less than 19,500 bbls. in my opinion. It’s obvious that the reason the spill was about five times bigger than it should have been is because the controllers repeatedly restarted the line the next day. That’s a training problem – in my opinion.
Griese, who has 20 years of experience in the petroleum pipeline industry, offered these opinions after reporting on the oil spill timeline for Energy Pipeline News.
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