Will Snyder intervene on behalf of Wolverine coal plant?

Wolverine Power Cooperative is suing the state for denying an air permit for a coal and petroleum coke plant planned for Rogers City.

In a case that is scheduled to be heard in Missaukee Circuit Court next week the power company is asking the court to reverse the permit denial and overturn Governor Granholm’s Feb. 2009 executive order that directed state officials to deny permits to coal plants if there are other feasible and prudent ways of meeting the state’s power needs.

In Snyder Must Review Wolverine Air Permit conservative blogger Jen Kuznicki points out that Governor-elect Snyder has already announced he will reverse Granholm’s move to combine the state environmental and natural resources departments and suggests that he could do more to undo the obstacles the coal project faced during the Granholm administration.

So now that Snyder has said the two departments will be split, it is along that line that I call on Governor-Elect Rick Snyder to review the permit to install for Wolverine Clean Energy Venture.

The Granholm administration went out of their way to deny this top-of-the-line clean coal energy plant. Granholm, an attorney by profession, utilized her bureaucracy to make up regulations and make new unconstitutional laws by executive order. She and her administration lied repeatedly to consumers, and denied the air permit based on her shredded process, rather than science, and the law.

In accordance with the campaign promise from his commercial during the 2010 election season, “We’ll dump that tax, thin the regulations and jobs will come back,” Snyder must review the Wolverine air quality permit denial.

Snyder has not made many explicit public statements on environmental policy, however, the Detroit Free Press reports that he “favors more coal plants for Michigan and would like to apply his quick permitting to them.”