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<description><![CDATA[Cutting Edge Smart Growth News]]></description>
<pubDate><![CDATA[7/2/2009 1:37:52 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Critics Call Rogers City Coal Plant Study ‘Fluff’]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Early last month, as part of its application for permission to build a large, coal-fired power plant near Rogers City, Wolverine Power Cooperative filed a massive, 500-plus-page document with two state agencies. Now the document, the final step in its lengthy application process, is drawing heavy criticism from coal plant opponents.
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<pubDate><![CDATA[7/2/2009 1:37:52 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[County Planning Needs All of Us]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Something important and hopeful just occurred on the Benzie County Planning Commission: It adopted a new ordinance that could help heal some of the splits that have made guiding growth in the county such an elusive goal.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[7/1/2009 9:16:18 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Farm Markets Boost Sales via ‘Food Stamp’ Cards]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Farmer Paul Fuhr remembers the first time he saw a shopper use “electronic food stamps” at Detroit’s Eastern Market, where he sells apples, raspberries, and cider. It was two summers ago that a grateful woman lugged away three grocery bags of apples from his stand—telling him how glad she was that Eastern Market now accepted the special debit cards.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[7/1/2009 9:53:16 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Granholm Touts Big Plans for Green Jobs]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Governor Granholm wrapped up the Green Today, Jobs Tomorrow Conference with a speech describing her administration’s efforts to build a clean-energy economy in Michigan, and drew a standing ovation from most of the 1,400 people in the room. However, the governor’s talk, full of her trademark optimism, was only part of what triggered the near sell-out crowd’s strong reaction.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[6/30/2009 9:39:22 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Co-Op Coal Critic Sees Victory in a Defeat]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Emmy Lou Cholak showed up at the Cherryland Electric Cooperative’s annual members meeting last week with one thing on her mind. She wanted to tell the member-owned utility that she was concerned about the electric rates customers like her would face if Wolverine Power Cooperative builds a 600 MW coal plant on the shoreline of Lake Huron in Rogers City.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[6/23/2009 6:17:23 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[White House Says, ‘Stand Tall, Michigan!’]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[The state’s Green Today, Jobs Tomorrow Conference drew a near-capacity crowd to the Lansing Center last month. Amidst the bubbling optimism, the brightest smile came from top White House official Van Jones, who said the federal government’s green energy spending plans could put Michiganders back to work—if the state’s officials make the right policy moves.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[6/18/2009 2:57:50 PM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[How Much Power Does Consumers Need?]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Last month, Consumers Energy drew fire from citizen groups and state regulators when it proposed surprisingly high surcharges for its clean-energy program. Now Consumers is catching more heat from the organizations, known collectively as Clean Energy Now—this time regarding its proposed Bay City coal plant. ]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[6/15/2009 9:28:16 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Wolverine Mum On Coal Plant’s Price ]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When Wolverine Power announced plans to build a new coal plant, the company said it would cost about $1.2 billion. But, even though a lot has changed in the coal and utility industries since Wolverine’s announcement, the co-op refuses to publicly discuss how those changes affect its plant’s 2006 price tag, and has no plans to do so soon.]]></description>
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<pubDate><![CDATA[6/8/2009 8:27:45 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Production’s Fiasco Means Benzie Lacks Growth Tools]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[When Benzie County refused to allow Production Industries Inc. to build a new facility in Gilmore Township, it showed how crucial it is for the county to have a master plan and matching zoning ordinances that encourage quality economic growth.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.mlui.org/pageview.asp?fileid=17330]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/3/2009 8:47:17 AM]]></pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[‘Coal Night’ Promises ‘Serious Fun’]]></title>
<description><![CDATA[Responding to a coal industry media blitz claiming its product is clean, cheap, and abundant, a Grand Traverse-area citizens group is presenting an evening of movies, videos, speakers, and even a mock beauty contest, all meant to tell a very different story. The evening, sponsored by Co-opConversations.org, takes place at the State Theatre in downtown Traverse City.]]></description>
<link><![CDATA[http://www.mlui.org/pageview.asp?fileid=17329]]></link>
<pubDate><![CDATA[6/1/2009 10:34:13 AM]]></pubDate>
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