Posted on 02/17/2010 4:30:24 PM PST by jenk
(A coal plant is proposed in the middle of the world's largest limestone quarry. I live near it, and have been writing about it. After almost 2 1/2 years, the major permit for the plant has been languishing in Lansing.)
She isn’t a Democrat, she thinks of herself more as a QUEEN.
People around town are asking, “What is going on with the air permit?”
The only logical answer is that Jennifer Granholm wants Wolverine’s air permit put on hold until the EPA comes out with a plan to implement what the legislature tried to do with Cap and Trade.
You see, Jennifer Granhom does not want this clean coal plant to happen, and she believes that a small town in the frozen north is not going to harm her party’s chances at election time.
The Advance reports in the February 3, 2010 issue,
“Before determining whether to support the construction of a new coal-fired power plant that would cost Michigan ratepayers billions of dollars and affect Michigan’s environment and natural resources, the governor believes it’s important to first understand whether the energy from the plant is needed and whether the plant is the best way to meet our energy needs,” Granholm’s Press Secretary Meghan Brown said.
First of all, the Governor needs to drop the, “I’m only looking out for the ratepayers,” bullcrap. She is not concerned with the people of the north who belong to Co-ops. She made that clear when she fast-tracked a 930 MW power plant downstate.
She can stop patronizing us with the idea that she is concerned this plant will hurt the environment. Her own DEQ affirmed that Wolverine has done everything possible to protect the environment.
Since the beginning of this project, Wolverine has spent over 700 million dollars buying power from downstate utilities as well as Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin. So yes, it is needed.
Most people think that if a person makes it to the Governorship, she must be intelligent. So I have no idea why Granholm seems so thick about what is the best way to create power. The better way to create electric power is to burn something, not wait for the wind to blow.
The decision of whether or not to issue the air permit to Wolverine is not being driven by politics – this is all about whether issuing the permit is the right policy for Michigan under the laws that govern air quality,”
Au contraire, this whole issue is politics. The idea that we need an energy plant is political, the fact that Wolverine wishes to build it in the middle of a limestone quarry is political, the idea that the company has to hold public hearings is political, the environmental concerns are political. And don’t think it has escaped many people’s notice that most of the people against this plant are Democrats, and most for the plant are Republicans.
The only part about this whole saga that is not political is the support from the local townspeople. They are the ones who finally have hope that the schools won’t lose more funding, that the taxes collected from an operation like this along with the added tax base from an increase in population can mean the city can make improvements, the roads can be fixed, and all the other things this plant means. The fact that there will be jobs! Jobs.
What the Governor means by “under the laws that govern air quality,” is that she is waiting for the EPA to create some laws to govern carbon dioxide emissions. At a time when the hoax of global warming is unraveling, and the news that a major scientist admitted he fudged numbers to make the case more compelling, and that there has been no warming since 1995, Granholm is sticking to her plan.
“Processing an air permit of this magnitude is enormously complex. The DNRE staff have received 6,500 individual comments on the proposed air permit, which must be reviewed, considered, and responded to before taking action on the permit. Permits like these take time to process – both in Michigan and around the country – because they have such important stakes,” Brown said.
Knowing everyday people like I do, I am willing to bet that about 6250 of those “individual” comments were drummed up by The Sierra Club and the Michigan Land Institute. The type of comments we all heard at the public hearings. Nit-picking to the nth degree, the environmentalists have nothing better to do but wonder if something may happen. One committee member referred to the tactics by the environmentalists as “death by a thousand papercuts.”
THE ONLY consideration given to the permit is what the law allows, (DNRE) representative Bob McCann asserted, regardless of political pressures from outside organizations, both for and opposed to the power plant, or even from the governor’s office. “There is obviously a great deal of outside interest from a number of parties, however, decisions by our permitting staff are made solely on scientific and legal purposes. Quite simply, the law doesn’t allow for anything else,” McCann said. The wait continues.
If it’s the law that McCann is interested in, laws are made by congress. That is how our system is set up.
But like I said, by the end of March, the EPA will provide the necessary law.
Meanwhile Consumers energy is going to blow money on a 60,000 acre wind farm with between 40 and 70 four and five hundred foot windmills.
http://www.mlive.com/news/jackson/index.ssf/2010/02/jackson-based_consumers_energy_1.html
Democrats own Michigan, and she’s their leader. If voters there were sane, they would have thrown the Dems out of power years ago. But now it may be too late. Sounds like the voters aren’t in control these days. The unions are, just like in California.
like the teacher thing? wants 2/3 of the teachers in the state to take early retirement or else will lose benefits and retirement funds. union can’t help them. teachers are being forced to retire after i think its 25 years on the job.
granholm thinks she’s god.
Stimulous money used to manufacture wind turbines in china. Our tax dollars paid to chinese labor to manufacture wind turbines for US. This is the bulls### they continue to feed us day in and day out. Today he and joey plugs tried to convince us the stimulous bill has worked for the American worker, just ask Blake and chuck.
Who Does Jennifer Granholm Think She Is?
Obama but female and white and Canadian not Kenyan.
Apparently you aren’t aware that the democrats don’t even have a truly viable candidate for governor this time out and the GOP has a couple of good candidates. My congressional district isn’t only going back to the GOP, its going back to truly conservative republican hands.
You should help us out instead of telling us that its pointless to try.
she is clueless.
She is a god or a queen over a junk pile called Michigan.
It never ceases to amaze me how stupid this woman is.
Breathtaking stupidity.
yup, this is going to be interesting, and not in a good way
we’ll just have to wait and see, the darn Republicans have to get a backbone
Argghhh! Burns my britches.
good point, was thinking of the messiah angle, but decided on Queen
The green dream is collapsing all around them and they’re pushing ahead without an apparent care in the world. However I’m not so sure they’re as carefree as they appear.
Huge sums of taxpayer money has gone down this hole and when they can no longer hide the failure people will be looking for retribution. At this point I think Granholm and friends are just trying to prop up the fantasy till she’s out the door.
Hey, Michiganites! Had enough? Let us know when you have.
We are Michiganders, and what is that supposed to mean?
I love Michigan despite its political infestation. Its my home and the only way I’ll leave is with my toes in the air.
I love it too:)
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