U.P. Road Commission Taking On EPA

Michigan Capitol Confidential ^ | 7/20/2015 | Jack Spencer

[BuffaloJack]

What does U.P stand for?

[prisoner6]

There are ROADS in Yupperland? In Winter? Who Knew?

[cripplecreek]

Upper Peninsula. (Michigan)

[brivette]

upper peninsula.

[MeganC]

Michigan should ignore the EPA and go ahead and build the road. If Obama can pick and choose the laws he wants to obey then so can everyone else!!!

[cripplecreek]

May be of interest. The EPA seems to be trying to use a back door to stand in the way of mining operations.



Michigan legislative action thread

[Quality_Not_Quantity]

There are ROADS in Yupperland? In Winter? Who Knew?

Actually, you end up driving on pard-packed snow covered by a layer of what is referred to as 'stamp sand.'

Back in the heyday of the copper mining industry in the Keweenaw Penninsula (the rabbit's ear, for those in the know), they ran the ore through a stamping plant to separate the copper. What was left was this coarse black sand.

Lots and lots of coarse black sand, probably millions of cubic yards of it all over the place.

[MeshugeMikey]

Kick the muslime ballerina and his lackeys at the EPA...to the side of the road .......and get on with it!!

[cripplecreek]

It was the product of a consensus between the Democratic governor, environmentalist groups, mining companies, and local officials. Within a short time, however, state environmental groups were taking actions to obstruct the mine. In the past the Marquette Mining Journal reported remarks from Casperson that the EPA has an "agenda" about the mine, not the road.

All too typical of environmental groups. They support something that causes industry to spend money, then oppose it actually doing any business. Its kind of like their past support of clean coal which they now oppose.

Lawfare at its worst.

[prisoner6]

Actually, you end up driving on pard-packed snow covered by a layer of what is referred to as ‘stamp sand.’

Very interesting! I didn’t know that.

I’m sure you know The Yoopers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50IgzksUqpQ

FWIW we have similar problems here in Western PA. Not the deep snow so much but the salt and socialist PennDot crews.

Can you send us some of that Stamp Sand?

Probably illegal....

[PGalt]

Thanks for the ping; post; thread. Interesting.

(LOL! I’d never heard the Rusty Chevrolet song)

[ComputerGuy]

I’m sure the EPA has a SWAT team. Y’all be careful.

[Hot Tabasco]

The EPA has exceeded its usefulness and I would support any questions leveled to our current crop of presidential hopefuls if they would support the total defunding and elimination of that tyrannical arm of the government.......

Any candidate willing to support the elimination of the EPA would definitely get my attention........

[cyclotic]

UP is a short way of saying God’s Country

[Mariner]

Soon, no Federal Officer or Federal Employee will be able to enter the woods without a column of APC,s

And those are known to be prone to tragic accidents in the woods.

[Peter Libra]

One of my earliest memories of exploring the UP came over fifty years ago. I live opposite the UP just across the St Mary's River in Canada. I decided to explore the tiny community of Gay Michigan, as I drove around the Copper Country.

There was the black sand from the mill. A small fortune was made by the entrepreneurs who discovered even more copper could be extracted. This from the discarded heaps of tailings. This you will know.

I smiled as I posed by the sign of the communities only bar. It read "The Gay Bar". I went in with my wife to quaff an ale. The last place on earth any one would expect to find any one who would be called "gay". I did not find, nor did I look for any "gays". I and sipped my beer and felt, though a stranger quite at ease.

Google has the same sign and also the school house preserved in time. I plan one last look at the Copper Country in August. My daughter will be driving myself and my wife of 54 years married. She was about six years old when she was with me on our trip, many years ago.

Excuse this ramble.

[Peter Libra]

Whoops! I read the above to my wife and she told me to explain that my daughter was six years old. This when we explored the Copper Country.

[MarMema]

Thanks for sharing your lovely story.

[clearcarbon]

"The Gay Bar."

Gun museum.