Sunday, February 28, 2010
Right now, Wolverine is still waiting to hear from the MDNRE on whether it will receive an air quality permit, despite Jennifer Granholm’s claim that the issuance of a permit has nothing whatsoever to do with politics. The beginning of the coal plant saga was May 2006. In a few months, we will have been [...]
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Monday, December 14, 2009
The Substitution of Legislation by Regulation Click here to view Part 22 The Heavy Hand of the EPA One of the things that makes America different from other countries is our political system, presumably. I mean to say that we elect leaders to represent us and work in our interest among the political causes of [...]
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Monday, November 30, 2009
Over a week ago, the leading climate research institution, the Hadley Climate Research Unit (CRU) was compromised by an email hacker. The hacked emails exposed some of the most nefarious cover-ups in climate research, one of which namely, that the earth has been cooling for the past ten years. The public has been steadily becoming [...]
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
click here to view Part 19 Carbon Capture and Sequestration Our congressman, Bart Stupak announced gleefully the week of October 8th, 2009, that $2.7 million of federal stimulus funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)were awarded to Wolverine Power for carbon capture. I wrote about the stimulus bill on this blog and rereading shows me [...]
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click here to view Part 16 Cap and Trade Cap and Trade was brought to a vote in the U.S. House on June 26th. By a vote of 219-212, the bill passed. Since Bart Stupak was on the Energy and Commerce Committee in the United States House of Representatives, and he is the area’s representative, [...]
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click here to view Part 14 Here come the politicians In April, during the County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner, several state lawmakers spoke in favor of the plant and against the Governor. House Minority Leader Kevin Elsenheimer stated, “Our governor seems to have a real problem with coal-fired power plants. When I was sitting [...]
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Also tagged coal, economy, environmentalism, government regulation, green energy, industry, Jason Allen, Jennifer Granholm, jobs, Kevin Elsenheimer, Michigan, Mike Cox, Politics, power plant, Stupak
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click here to view Part 10 Public Hearings C. Vinson Hellwig, Chief of the Air Quality Division of the MDEQ was seated with moderator and former Rogers City Mayor David Nadolsky to recieve comments from the concerned public at the public hearings on October 29th and 30th, 2008. The bleachers were packed with many locals [...]
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click here to view Part 9 Make room for the DEQ The month of October in 2008 was so loaded with information and news that I have many times hesitated to synthesize it here. Two major things happened, on October 1st, the Michigan DEQ visited Rogers City for an informational meeting, and public hearings were [...]
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Click here to view Part 7 After the Biomass public hearing, Tom Karas (Michigan Energy Alternatives,) wrote an editorial that appeared in the Advance to counter an argument between himself and Bob Noffze, president of the citizen-formed Wolverine Clean Energy Venture Support Group. Apparently, after the biomass hearing, Bob and Tom had a brief exchange [...]
