Tag: 2021
Report: 19% of Lake Michigan shore now armored, limiting public access
There’s been a fivefold expansion of seawalls, riprap and other coastal armoring, which protects properties from erosion but makes things worse in the long run.
Michigan State Police probe Cadillac groundwater board for violations amid PFAS fallout
In June, MSP investigated allegations that Cadillac’s Local Development Finance Authority violated Michigan’s Open Meeting Act by conducting business without the minimum number of members required, ignoring bylaws, and withholding meeting minutes and records.
A Great Lakes oil pipeline faces 3 controversies with no speedy resolutions
By Mike Shriberg, University of Michigan
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For more than a decade, controversy over an oil pipeline that passes directly through a Native American reservation and then across a sensitive waterway that is also a key shipping lane has brewed in Wisconsin and Michigan.
Owen Sound experiencing construction boom in 2025
Residential projects driving much of the growth this year
Hydrogen peaking generation plant proposed for Owen Sound
A company is proposing to build a plant in Owen Sound’s industrial park that would use hydrogen to generate electricity. The proposal by Public Energy Inc. came before Owen Sound council on Monday, where the municipality supported the company’s bid to the Independent Electricity System Operator’s long-term capacity procurement process. “I think this is an […]