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    The Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plant in Rogers City, Michigan, Part 3


    By jenkuz, Section Multimedia
    Posted on Sun Jun 07, 2009 at 09:12:15 PM EST
    Tags: Global Warming, Michigan, coal, industry, jobs, power plant (all tags)

    By March of 2007, Wolverine continued it's initial work on developing a wind farm, part of it's commitment during the study of the possibility of building a power plant near Rogers City, along with an endangered species study, as well as numerous analyses to abide by state and local regulations.  They committed to installing a meteorological tower at the Rogers City airport to gather wind speed and directional data.

    A member of the Citizens for Environmental Inquiry (CEI), Bill Lewis, continued to raise questions on the opinion page of the Advance, this time raising the geological significance of where the plant would be located.  This is the first time the word "karst" entered the fray.   His argument, that careless surface activity on karst land can quickly impact water resources, was weak.  The company had just hired a slew of environmental engineers, harbor engineers, and conceptual power plant designers.  Three companies whose 2500 employees know more about the different problems  related to geological issues.  As an aside, all of the arguments posed by CEI included the words, "probably," "likely," and "possible," while trying to convince the public.

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    The Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plant in Rogers City, Michigan, Part 2


    By jenkuz, Section News
    Posted on Sat Jun 06, 2009 at 03:03:15 PM EST
    Tags: Global Warming, Granholm, Michigan, coal, industry, jobs, power plant (all tags)

    The Citizens For Environmental Inquiry started as a group of five citizens of Presque Isle County who totally believed Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth.   They made it their mission to go out and spread the word about how America's quest for excellence must be stopped, and how Rogers City's progress must be forever shut down.   The first thing they did after they formed was send letters to the editor of The Advance casting dispersions against Wolverine Power and argue against sustainable power.    Under the guise of education and innocent prying, they went about turning inquiry to examination, investigation, and environmental activism.  They went from, "Hey, we just want to know what there is to know," to filing lawsuits to demand the State of Michigan define CO2 as a pollutant and make the levels of allowable CO2 considerably less than any major progressive factory could match.  In short, and to borrow a popular phrase, they want Wolverine to fail.

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    A Message To Our Legislators - Beware False Choices

    The Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plant in Rogers City, Michigan, Part 1


    By jenkuz, Section News
    Posted on Fri Jun 05, 2009 at 12:32:45 AM EST
    Tags: Global Warming, Michigan, coal, industry, jobs, power plant (all tags)

    Rogers City is a small town.   The  2000 census says there are about  3,300 people in the city limits.  You can look at the stats yourself , but basically the county's population hasn't changed much in one hundred years at about 14,400.

    I moved here as a child of five when my parents chose to live a less hectic life here at home, rather than their fast-paced life in a fast-growing Brighton.  The town  has one major industry, now called Carmeuse Lime and Stone,  We just all call it Calcite.  It is a limestone quarry described as "crushed and broken" by Businessweek with a deep sea port on Lake Huron.  When I was a child, it was called the "Largest Limestone Quarry in The World,"  I don't know if it still is.  Basically it is a huge hole, a man-made desert, where men blow down walls of rock using TNT, then use amazingly humongous loaders to load ginormous dump trucks that take the stone to the vast crusher to make small rocks out of big ones.  Why?  We don't know.  Our limestone was once used to process steel.

    The city of Rogers City has a newspaper that publishes once a week called The Advance.   It is a little annoying to read old news on Wednesday nights, (old news because the rumor mill is a lot faster,) but it is very accurate, professional and a great example of what newspapers should be.  I have spent some time at the local library to read past Advance's  to refresh my memory of how Wolverine Power Company became a household name here.

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    Building common ground between cats and dogs


    By Theblogprof, Section News
    Posted on Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 09:51:24 AM EST
    Tags: coal, Comcast, energy, Granholm, insurance, MEA (all tags)

    (Autobots and Decepticons are magic words. Anytime anyone works them into any blogpost you'll automatically get front-paged. Just so we're clear. --Nick) Cross-posted at theblogprof

    Decepticons working with autobots. Vorlons with shadows. Harkonnen with Atreides. Romulans with Klingons. Cats with dogs. I don't know - doesn't sound right. But such is the suggestion from the Macomb Daily. In the opinion piece, the MD says

    Granholm outlined some very bold and aggressive projects she would like the state to embark on as she painted a bright future for Michigan in her recent State of the State speech.
    Bold and aggressive? Did I miss something? I'm pretty sure I just wrote a few pieces recently about Granholm and, with good reason, I would describe her projects as timid and passive. In fact, I just wrote a piece yesterday entitled Granholm, 'no-brainers' and leadership, where I drew comparisons between her leadership and that of Bobby Jindal of Louisiana. It was not pretty. In yet another prior post, I pointed out this opinion by Scott Stoecker on his blog:

    Aunt Jenny, working harder than she's ever worked to balance the budget, announces cuts to her beloved education system. Then, shazaam! President B. Hussein Obama's stimulus plan forbid cuts to education.

    If I were a distrusting kind of guy, I would say that Aunt Jenny knew she was getting this money from the feds all along so she could act like the tough-minded budget cutter. It makes her look like she's actually working, and yet her lackeys at the MEA don't suffer any consequences.

    If I were not the trusting sort, of course.

    Of course. Sound bold and aggressive now? How about the fact that the structural budgetary problems simply don't get fixed. Like - at all! A big chunk of the budget hole this year will simply be plugged with stimulus bondo. That's about it. Next year too. So whoever takes over after 2010 is going to be in a world of hurt because of the kick-the-can mentality of the current administration. Not good. Not bold. Not aggressive.

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    The Michigan Coal Stimulus


    By Theblogprof, Section News
    Posted on Mon Feb 23, 2009 at 04:26:58 PM EST
    Tags: coal, DEQ, energy, environment, government, Granholm, Michigan, Mike Cox (all tags)

    cross-posted at theblogprof

    I wrote about the opinion MI AG Mike Cox made yesterday basically telling Governor Granholm that she can't just do whatever she wants. Specifically, that she exceeded her statutory authority in having the DEQ do things well beyond its charter. Like predict the energy mix in the future. In fact, I pointed out this quote in a prior post (Scrooge takes away Michigan's lump of coal! ) that was made by Russ Harding, former director of the Michigan DEQ:

    Requiring the DEQ to make critical decisions about Michigan's future energy mix is a recipe for stagnation or worse.
    About sais it all in that one sentence. In yet another former post, I defended the need for new coal power plants and had this to say, amongst much else:
    Maybe the environitwits can think of this as "investing in our decaying infrastructure." You know - "creating jobs." There! Is that better now?
    Apparently, no - it was not. But that one quote is what I want to expand on in this post for "stimulus" reasons. But first, from today's article in The Citizen Patriot via MLive:

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    MI AG Mike Cox: Granholm went too far with coal plants order


    By Theblogprof, Section News
    Posted on Fri Feb 20, 2009 at 06:51:20 PM EST
    Tags: coal, energy, government (all tags)

    Cross-posted at theblogprof

    No kidding! I posted on this topic just 3 days ago (Scrooge takes away Michigan's lump of coal! ). In that post, I also pointed out Russ Harding, former director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality, who wrote an op-ed in the freep that actually defends the approving of new coal power plants. This excerpt is from that op-ed:

    I was director of the DEQ for nearly eight years and can testify that the agency is ill-equipped to consider factors other than environmental ones. Requiring the DEQ to make critical decisions about Michigan's future energy mix is a recipe for stagnation or worse.

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