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.
The Province of Ontario has announced that it will wait on further scientific study of offshore wind farms before moving forward with controversial plans to install large scale windmills in Lake St. Clair and Lake Erie.
The Detroit Free Press reports:
SouthPoint Wind, a Leamington, Ontario, contractor, had proposed 715 wind turbines in 13 places, 2 to 3 miles offshore, including some in Pigeon Bay near Point Pelee, a bird sanctuary. The turbines would rise 400 feet above the water.
“No offshore projects will proceed at this time,” the Ontario Ministry of Environment said on its Web site Friday.
The province still is committed to wind energy, but for now, only on land, where the science is more certain, the ministry said. The province wants to see the effects of wind farms on Lake Erie off Cleveland, where a project could break ground in 2012, and in a freshwater lake in Sweden.
The prospect of windmills that would be visible from the shore of Grosse Point Park stirred opposition from lakefront residents in Michigan.
Citizen groups on both sides of the border asked official to consider the environmental impact of the construction of the wind farm.
Last year county boards in Mason and Oceana Counties voted down a wind farm proposed for Lake Michigan.
The town of Muskegon recently approved plans for an offshore wind research buoy in Lake Michigan.
“Muskegon has had a willingness to look at offshore wind,” [Michigan Alternative and Renewable Energy Center Director] Arn Boezaart told The Muskegon Chronicle after receiving the city’s support on the research buoy project. “It goes right back to what we saw with the Scandia issue. In Muskegon, offshore wind is viewed as a potential source of jobs and represents new business for the region.”
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