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 Enbridge Lakehead Pipeline 6B which runs through Michigan was shut down May 29 when storm related power outages shut down the Marshall pumping station.
Bloomberg reports the line was restarted May 30 after Consumer’s Energy was able to restore power to the pumping station. The restart was done at lower rates than the system is currently approved to run.
That lower rate for normal operations is the result of hundreds of anomalies which have been identified on the line. Those anomalies have been the subject of hearings in Washington, as well as stricter reviews by the Pipeline Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA). PHMSA approved the restart of the line in September following the July 25 rupture of the line in Marshall.
The July 25 rupture lead to an estimated one million gallons of crude oil spewing out of the pipeline and into Talmadge Creek and the Kalamazoo River.
As the line was running in late 2010, Enbridge was working on identifying the extent of potential weaknesses in the line. That program resulted in a November shut down because of anomalies discovered in Stockbridge, a rural Ingham county community.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials told Michigan Messenger earlier this week that clean up operations and assessments had been ceased as of late last week because of a series of severe storms hammering the area, causing the waterways to be at high flood stages, and creating safety concerns with fallen trees.
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