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The Proposed Coal-Fired Power Plant in Rogers City, Michigan, Part 6By jenkuz, Section News
The Citizens for Environmental Inquiry, in their never ending quest to kill the Wolverine Clean Energy Venture, filed a lawsuit against the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality in Ingham County Circuit Court, five months after the group demanded the DEQ regulate CO2 as a pollutant. The DEQ didn't respond to their demand within 90 days, so CEI filed the suit because, "my clients can no longer delay measures to assess and control the millions of tons of global warming pollution that can be released," said retired Judge Swallow, CEI's legal counsel. Seven people in Rogers City must be heard. The Advance reported that, "In filing this lawsuit, CEI is very much aware that Michigan has the highest unemployment rate in the nation and Presque Isle County has the highest in Michigan."
In late March, 2008, Wolverine asked the County Planning Commission to amend it's original special use permit to include the burning of biomass. Up until now, there had been two groups interested in killing the power plant. The seven people of CEI, all locals who believed Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, and a man from Traverse City who gets his money from San Fransisco, Tom Karas (Michigan Energy Alternatives.) However, the Planning Commission meeting attracted more outsiders.
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