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Opinion: The solution to America's copper shortage is in Michigan
Karl Bohnak, Ed McBroom, David Prestin, Greg Markkanen The Detroit News View Comments America needs copper. It's in the wiring of our homes, cars, technology, and businesses. It's in the electronics and defense systems that protect our troops. Electric vehicles, solar panels, windmills, next-generation defense technologies and innumerable other projects depend on copper. The future requires more copper than the total already mined throughout history.
Opinion | Extend electronic voting to Michigan military families overseas
That’s why I’m backing a bipartisan package of bills making its way through the state House. House Bill 4210 was written to guarantee service members and their spouses who are deployed overseas have the right — and the ability — to cast a ballot that counts each and every election. Anyone who has ever been stationed overseas or deployed knows the toll deployment can take on local relationships, family and friends. It makes it harder to vote, too.
Lawmaker wants to ship gray wolves to Lower Peninsula
Lawmaker wants to ship gray wolves to Lower Peninsula Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email LANSING, MI— State Representative Greg Markkanen wants some U.The House on Wednesday advanced a resolution that urges the DNR to re-establish a viable and self-sustaining wolf population in the Lower Peninsula by taking wolves from the U.Markkanen says the Lower Peninsula contains thousands of acres of suitable habitat and prey.Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Nicole Walton Nicole was born near Detroit but...
Opinion | Why Michigan labor unions want the Line 5 tunnel built
We’re not the only ones who support the pipeline and the tunnel, either. This fall, a new survey identified the tunnel project as one of those rare issues that truly cuts across the political divide. Strong majorities of Democrats, Republicans and Independents support construction of the Tunnel, believe it’s the best solution for Line 5, and want the state to move forward immediately with permitting for the project, according to the survey results.
With Line 5 closure, a ‘game of chicken’ over how to heat Upper Peninsula
Several options, for a price Naser’s predicament illustrates the crux of the challenge of weaning the U.P. from Line 5: It will likely require investment in infrastructure to move more propane by road or rail. Whitmer, who campaigned for office on a promise to shut down Line 5, appointed a task force in June 2019 to study alternative ways to meet U.P. propane needs.
Opinion | The clock is ticking on Line 5, and rightfully so
Over the last 60 years, Line 5 has provided a “shortcut” for Enbridge to transport fossil fuels from central Canada to Sarnia, Ontario, by cutting through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, crossing the lakebed of the Straits of Mackinac, traveling south through the Lower Peninsula to southeast Michigan, before ending in Ohio and Canada. Line 5 transports a variety of crude oil and natural gas liquids, including propane.
Plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer: Who was charged, what's next
Last updated: Thursday, Nov. 17, 10 a.m. This post will be regularly updated with news on the case. A federal grand jury has indicted six men on charges of conspiracy to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ahead of a hearing set for Thursday in federal court. They were arrested in October, after a months-long FBI investigation into militia activity that included the use of multiple inside sources. The men are expected to appear at 10 a.m. Thursday at federal court in Grand Rapids.
Enbridge just wants a permit. Michigan critics want to bring down Line 5
They want to leverage the siting question into a review of the tunnel plan that the Legislature and then-Gov. Rick Snyder crafted in the waning days of Snyder’s administration, before Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Line 5 critic, took office. They also want him to consider safety concerns surrounding the current pipeline, which sits exposed at the bottom of the straits and has sustained damage from passing boats multiple times in recent years.
Don’t shut down Line 5 at the expense of the economy, hardworking Michiganders (opinion)
Opinion Today 10:00 AM Garret Ellison A tugboat deploys boom in the Straits of Mackinac during an Enbridge mock oil spill exercise in September 2015. (Garret Ellison | MLive.com) By Guest Columnist and Sen. Ed McBroom, Rep. Beau LaFave, Rep.
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