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.
Citing the “current project execution environment, market conditions and the current inflationary pressures across the oil and gas industry,” Shell Canada announced today that it is ending plans to build a tar sands crude oil refinery along the St. Clair River.
The project faced strong opposition from neighboring municipalities in Michigan and the Aamjiwnaag First Nation Chippewas of Sarnia.
Continued – Nearby residents worried about the air and water emissions from the refinery and the possibility of spills, fires, refinery malfunction and explosions, thevoicenews.com reports. The planned refinery would have been built half a mile away from a Michigan hospital and upstream from municipal drinking water intake systems for Michigan.
The facility would have processed heavy crude from the northern Alberta tar sands. According to the Canadian Polaris Institute, greenhouse gas emissions from tar sands production are three times those of conventional oil and gas production.
In “http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080627/METRO/806270382″>Border battles: Canada, U.S. increasingly at odds over pollution issues,” Jim Lynch of The Detroit News describes the proposed Canadian refinery as one of several looming environmental battles over industrial projects planned along the St. Clair River that divides the two countries.
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