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    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.

    In May 2006, Wolverine Power established itself as Wolverine Clean Energy Venture by securing an option to buy one hundred acres of desert from Calcite, (then owned by Oglebay Norton, or O-N.)  The idea of a coal-fired power plant here in Rogers City was a great shot in the arm for many, considering the county typically stalls at 12% unemployment, and 35% of the county's workers...

    Read more...Jennerationx

    < Macomb Community College Pres Jim Jacobs: Macomb's jobless rate will hit 20% | Friday in the Sphere: June 5 >


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