This week the state of Michigan took off its website a suggested limit on noise from wind turbines. The recommendation of 55 decibels generated outcries from those who say...
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Last year the Michigan Supreme Court said townships can restrict where gravel pits are dug. Now some legislators are moving to take that zoning power away. Critics...
Journalist Keith Schneider says the future of renewable energy in the U.S. is not bright. He sees opposition to large scale renewable energy coming from both the political left and right.
Traverse City's electric utility has put aside their controversial plan to build a wood burning biomass plant. The Light and Power Board voted last night to make natural...
At the state Capitol, a workgroup has begun the job of drafting legislation that would set the rules for wind farms off the Great Lakes shoreline.
State Senator Patricia...
The Company proposing the first large offshore wind farm in Michigan will move its project away from Ludington.
The Mason County Board of Commissioners last night...
A company looking to build off-shore wind farms in Lake Michigan meets Thursday with Mason County officials. Leaders of Scandia Wind say they're looking to know...
A small electric utility in Traverse City continues to generate a big outcry against biomass.
Light and Power officials will move forward with plans to build a wood...
Traverse City's electric utility will move ahead with plans to build a wood burning biomass plant.
The Light and Power Board says this follows their long-range goal...
There's lots of talk about being green but when it comes right down to it few of us are willing to give up the energy-intensive luxuries of modern life. Theoretically, time and money spent fighting over wind farms and biomass plants might be...
