Tag: Mining

Like Shelby Township, Scio Township passes moratorium on oil drilling. Company keeps drilling anyway.

Like Shelby Township, Scio Township passes moratorium on oil drilling. Company keeps drilling anyway.

You know we’re in the steely grip of corporatocracy when this happens: West Bay Exploration Company has no plans to cease drilling at the corner of West Delhi and Miller roads northwest of Ann Arbor. The company’s oil rig is in Scio Township, where the Board of Trustees passed a moratorium last week against oil exploration activity. West Bay Exploration […]

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ACTION: State of Michigan preparing to sell off unprecedented amounts of public land – Make your voice heard!

ACTION: State of Michigan preparing to sell off unprecedented amounts of public land – Make your voice heard!

My wife Anne, who lived in St. Louis, Missouri when we met, often tells people that I “wooed her with Michigan”. And it’s true. Michigan has so much to offer from big cities to secluded forests and everything in between. We have over 19 million acres of forested land, about 4 million of which is state-owned. This immense amount of […]

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BREAKING: McCoig Materials withdraws request for permit to build intrusive, harmful gravel mine in Lyndon Township

BREAKING: McCoig Materials withdraws request for permit to build intrusive, harmful gravel mine in Lyndon Township

Back in March, I wrote about an effort by McCoig Materials to create a gravel mine just north of Chelsea, Michigan in Lyndon Township. Here’s what I wrote then: As you look at the photo of downtown Chelsea above, imagine 80 gravel trucks a day, 6 days a week rumbling through the middle of it and then back again after […]

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Chelsea/Lyndon Township residents fight intrusive gravel mine with both hands tied behind their backs

Chelsea/Lyndon Township residents fight intrusive gravel mine with both hands tied behind their backs

Historic downtown Chelsea As you look at the photo of downtown Chelsea above, imagine 80 gravel trucks a day, 6 days a week rumbling through the middle of it and then back again after they dumped their load. That’s one truck every 4 minutes during daylight hours and that’s the reality of what will happen if McCoig Gravel, a subsidiary […]

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