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 Republican election mantra of “Drill, baby, drill!” is alive and well in Michigan’s Jackson County. The Jackson Citizen Patriot is reporting that a drilling crew is sinking a well in Napoleon in hopes of tapping a rich oil vein that runs from New York state across southern Michigan.
Three-dimensional seismic mapping indicates a good potential for crude oil some 4,500 feet below the surface, directional drilling supervisor Bill Burdick said.
Bertie Barnett, a consultant managing the site, said the Advance Drilling Co. crew started drilling a week ago and could hit oil today.
“In 24 to 36 hours we will be in the play,” he said. “This well is what can make other ones possible”
The project costs about $1 million dollars, all on speculation that the oil source will be there, thousands of feet below the surface, waiting to be tapped. The closest wells tapping into the Trenton Black River Trend are 30 miles west in Calhoun County or southwest in Hillsdale County.
And if the drilling crew hits oil with this well? They will seek out new locations based on the computer mapping.
“Hitting eight to 10 wells here would indicate it is a viable field, that this is Black River oil.”
That’s what Bill Burdick had to say about determining if the oil field was ripe for harvest.
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