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 grassroots coalition, Don’t Frack Michigan, is circulating a petition to ban hydraulic fracturing in Michigan.
The petition states that underground horizontal hydrofracture drilling, used to mine natural gas, should be banned in Michigan for the following reasons:
Horizontal fracking poses an unacceptable risk to our health and our economy. Fracking chemicals released into the air and water pose a huge threat to our communities, wildlife, agriculture, forests, lakes and streams and the Great Lakes.
Communities elsewhere in the nation where fracking has occurred have experienced explosions, fires, spills, stream contamination, pollution of wells and aquifers and increased air pollution.
Millions of gallons of fresh water are required, and permanently polluted, to “frack” a single well.
Construction of a massive infrastructure of wellheads, pipelines, compressing stations, and processing centers would spread across much of rural and forested northern Michigan.
Extensive clearcutting, 24-hour noise, light pollution, huge increases in truck traffic, and the permanent industrialization of existing landscapes is incompatible with agriculture, tourism and recreation. Drilling will undermine property values in the entire area and increase local tax burdens.
Methane (“natural gas”) mining is not “clean energy” but rather a polluting, non-renewable fossil fuel industry contributing to global warming.
In a March 10 public letter the group asked Gov. Rick Snyder to work safeguard Michigan’s natural resources by joining the effort to ban fracking.
Don’t Frack Michigan member Ellis Boal said that as of March 30 the governor had not responded.
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