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Tag: industry (page 2)By jenkuz, Section News
After passing out copied versions of An Inconvenient Truth to all the townships in Presque Isle County, Jean Veselenak, member of Citizens for Environmental Inquiry (CEI), planned to make a speech in front of representatives of each township at the MTA meeting in October 2007.
There are two things I disliked about the events leading up to this point in this story. One, I disliked the lie that CEI was feeding township members that they were just a group of "folks" who'd like to ask a few questions on the coal plant, and two, I don't like it when people with agendas give information on one side of a topic I care about. So, I decided to refute Veselenak's speech. (2 comments, 310 words in story) Full Story By jenkuz, Section News
By March of 2007, Wolverine continued it's initial work on developing a wind farm, part of it's commitment during the study of the possibility of building a power plant near Rogers City, along with an endangered species study, as well as numerous analyses to abide by state and local regulations. They committed to installing a meteorological tower at the Rogers City airport to gather wind speed and directional data.
A member of the Citizens for Environmental Inquiry (CEI), Bill Lewis, continued to raise questions on the opinion page of the Advance, this time raising the geological significance of where the plant would be located. This is the first time the word "karst" entered the fray. His argument, that careless surface activity on karst land can quickly impact water resources, was weak. The company had just hired a slew of environmental engineers, harbor engineers, and conceptual power plant designers. Three companies whose 2500 employees know more about the different problems related to geological issues. As an aside, all of the arguments posed by CEI included the words, "probably," "likely," and "possible," while trying to convince the public. (335 words in story) Full Story By jenkuz, Section Multimedia
By March of 2007, Wolverine continued it's initial work on developing a wind farm, part of it's commitment during the study of the possibility of building a power plant near Rogers City, along with an endangered species study, as well as numerous analyses to abide by state and local regulations. They committed to installing a meteorological tower at the Rogers City airport to gather wind speed and directional data.
A member of the Citizens for Environmental Inquiry (CEI), Bill Lewis, continued to raise questions on the opinion page of the Advance, this time raising the geological significance of where the plant would be located. This is the first time the word "karst" entered the fray. His argument, that careless surface activity on karst land can quickly impact water resources, was weak. The company had just hired a slew of environmental engineers, harbor engineers, and conceptual power plant designers. Three companies whose 2500 employees know more about the different problems related to geological issues. As an aside, all of the arguments posed by CEI included the words, "probably," "likely," and "possible," while trying to convince the public. (335 words in story) Full Story By jenkuz, Section News
The Citizens For Environmental Inquiry started as a group of five citizens of Presque Isle County who totally believed Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth. They made it their mission to go out and spread the word about how America's quest for excellence must be stopped, and how Rogers City's progress must be forever shut down. The first thing they did after they formed was send letters to the editor of The Advance casting dispersions against Wolverine Power and argue against sustainable power. Under the guise of education and innocent prying, they went about turning inquiry to examination, investigation, and environmental activism. They went from, "Hey, we just want to know what there is to know," to filing lawsuits to demand the State of Michigan define CO2 as a pollutant and make the levels of allowable CO2 considerably less than any major progressive factory could match. In short, and to borrow a popular phrase, they want Wolverine to fail.
(284 words in story) Full Story By jenkuz, Section News
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. (343 words in story) Full Story
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