The Rogers City High School gymnasium filled up with people one more time last night, in what we were told is the last public hearing for the air quality permit for the proposed power plant.
It has been five years since Wolverine Power announced their plans to build a coal-fired power plant in the world’s [...]
Utilities double-counting ‘Renewable Energy Credits’
Okay, this story is going down a new road for me, I have heard of Renewable Energy Credits, (RECs) but like you, I don’t care about them. I’m just shocked about how fake all of the green energy is. With RECs, energy isn’t traded, pieces of [...]
Keeping an eye on energy news we don’t hear much about. Below are links to articles and my take on them.
Picking up where we left off last week, the final story on the round-up was about how China has been subsidizing wind and solar and coal, virtually their entire energy production roster, and how [...]
Keeping an eye on energy news we don’t hear much about. Below are links to articles and my take on them.
Yes, You Could Say I’m A Global Warming Denier, but only if you communicate in negatives. There is not a pink elephant in my kitchen, but that doesn’t mean I’m denying it, it [...]
If the Snyder Administration is successful in his appeal of the decision in Ottawa County regarding the James DeYoung power plant in Holland, it may well be the end of the Republican Party in Michigan.
And here we were off to such a great start…
Keeping an eye on energy news we don’t hear much about. Below are links to articles and my take on them.
Down on Upton: Michigan Energy News Undercuts Rep’s Rap
Henderson is in charge of the Midwest Division of the Natural Resources Defense Council, and is upset that Upton has changed his tune [...]
Do you know what you should do? Talk to Sarah Palin. Palin knows a lot about energy, it is one of her signature issues. Oh, and I was just joking about crying earlier, don’t cry. Sarah wouldn’t cry.
First of all, I want to heap lavish praise on Governor-elect Rick Snyder for splitting the Department of Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Quality. In my view, when the state legislature approved the combination of the DNR with the DEQ, it bottle-necked the permit process and lent to the nearly 1,000 day wait [...]
Uh oh.
Fred Upton, a Republican from Michigan, is insisting he is worthy to chair the House Energy and Commerce Committee, and has written an Op Ed in the Washington Examiner titled, “Rep. Fred Upton: A new majority for America.” In it, he describes what he will do if in fact he is [...]
After being flogged by conservatives across the board on the banning of the incandescent light bulb, Congressman Fred Upton changes the subject.
He posted an article on Right Michigan, saying, in part,
The American people are fed up and demand that we tackle government spending and the federal budget deficit immediately. The days [...]





