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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Wednesday, February 17, 2010
She isn’t a Democrat, she thinks of herself more as a QUEEN. People around town are asking, “What is going on with the air permit?” The only logical answer is that Jennifer Granholm wants Wolverine’s air permit put on hold until the EPA comes out with a plan to implement what the legislature tried to [...]
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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Tuesday, December 8, 2009
Click here to view Part 21 Tom Karas says quit “whining” while he kills our children’s future. A couple of weeks back, I noticed that Tom Karas, an out-of town environmentalist, was planning to show up at the Presque Isle Electric and Gas Co-op annual meeting to formally demand a complete financial disclosure of Wolverine’s [...]
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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Also tagged cap and trade, Carbon capture and sequestration, coal, economy, environmentalism, green energy, industry, Jennifer Granholm, jobs, Michigan, power plant
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Wednesday, October 28, 2009
click here to view Part 17 The Sierra Club’s Theatrics Reacting to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Wolverine asked for an additional hearing to change the way that emissions are measured. The EPA changed the way emissions are measured in the Clean Air Act of 2008, and that standard does not have to be [...]
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 15 Surprise! Michigan doesn’t need Energy! In Part 13 of this series I covered the governor’s state-of-the-state address where she issued a declaration that the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) would be involved with the DEQ in the issuance of air permits. I mentioned that AG Mike Cox forced Granholm [...]
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click here to view Part 13 Wind Energy Depends on Your Wind Despite the bad political climate, some leaders of Presque Isle County took a trip to observe a coal-fired plant under construction in Boyce, Louisiana. Read the story here. In March, another trip, this time to a wind mill gave some insight on the [...]
