Great Lakes Echo (https://greatlakesecho.org/category/energy/page/17/)
These stories are about traditional and alternative energy sources and challenges.
Mr. Great Lakes (Jeff Kart) reports from Bay City, Michigan’s Delta College Q-90.1 FM. This week, Kart discusses a new wind park spinning in Huron County, funding available for Watershed Initiative Network grants and faulty septic systems that can pollute local waterways and contribute to harmful algal blooms.
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The boom in oil production in North Dakota and Western Canada has turned the Great Lakes region into a transportation corridor for crude oil.
The fake reports caused the re-inspection of 95 wells in the Allegheny National Forest.
Debbie Dooley is a right-wing grandmother, a founding member of the national Tea Party and a leader of the Atlanta Tea Party. She is also an outspoken proponent of distributed solar generation and other forms of renewable distributed energy.
Newspapers reveal worries about fish, floods, farms, mines, trails, energy and Roscoe the deer.
Recent federal court hearing allows construction to begin before environmental impact statement completed.
Click the audio for details and Mr. Great Lakes for the text. Mr. Great Lakes is heard at 9 a.m. Fridays in Bay City, Mich., on Delta College Q-90.1 FM NPR and is rebroadcast on Great Lakes Echo with permission.
Consumers Energy has selected four Michigan farms to produce electricity with anaerobic digesters.
The latest annual net metering and solar pilot program report from the Michigan Public Service Commission shows an 18 percent increase in the program’s size compared to 2012. One of the biggest and most-visible astronomical events of the year is happening this month. Kids in Nature events are planned for the Discovery Preserve at Euclid Park in coming months. Click the audio for details and Mr. Great Lakes for the text. Mr. Great Lakes is heard at 9 a.m. Fridays in Bay City, Mich., on Delta College Q-90.1 FM NPR and is rebroadcast on Great Lakes Echo with permission.
Clean energy advocate pushes projects with social, economic and environmental value.