Author: Great Lakes Commission
Line 5 opponents raise concerns over report on geologic conditions for proposed tunnel
Opponents said they’re worried about potentially unsafe conditions, like weak bedrock, high water pressure and dangerous gases beneath the Straits.
The Wind and the Withered
When Seth Swoboda’s trees started dying, he asked two scientists for help. Their theory: herbicides were drifting onto his private property from farm fields and killing his trees, and it was happening all over. They just had to prove it.
The northern Michigan ice storm battered the electric grid. Is burying power lines the solution?
It’s been a year since the devastating ice storm. Poles and wires have since been replaced, but some residents wonder whether it makes more sense to bury them out of the reach of increasingly damaging snow, wind and ice.
Great Lakes shipping season starts with carriers beset by ice
As many as 11 Great Lakes shipping vessels near Sault Ste. Marie have been delayed due to icy conditions since the shipping season got underway Wednesday morning with the opening of the Soo Locks.
EMS providers battle money, staffing woes in rural Michigan’s ambulance ‘deserts’
Rural agencies face a compounding financial crisis: low call volume, unreliable public funding, service competition and low insurance reimbursement.
