Neighboring farmers worry about effect on tax base and land values. It also does not provide reliable baseload electric. But Consumers Energy is doing it to follow Whitmer’s energy plan so its executives and investors can be handsomely rewarded.
Ottawa County and Its Townships Should Be Working with the MPPA to Craft the Purchase of Consumers Energy’s Interest in the Campbell, Expanding Upon the MPPA and Wolverine Power’s Current Ownership Interest in the CampbellOttawa County and Its Townships Should Be Working with the MPPA to Craft the Purchase of Consumers Energy’s Interest in the Campbell, Expanding Upon the MPPA and Wolverine Power’s Current Ownership Interest in the Campbell
This should be part of an effort to get local control of electric for the rest of Ottawa County that does not currently have it. We need to extricate ourselves of the Whitmer-appointed MPSC energy plan as executed by Consumers Energy. Here describes MPPA’s current interest in the Campbell: Wolverine Power is in litigation with […]
Reclaiming Solar Panel Fields Back to Farmland is Very ExpensiveReclaiming Solar Panel Fields Back to Farmland is Very Expensive
… just as it would be expensive to tear down Campbell and to build something in its place that could generate that much electricity. We better think twice before proceeding further in this direction.
Follow the Trump Energy Plan, Not the Whitmer Energy PlanFollow the Trump Energy Plan, Not the Whitmer Energy Plan
Here is a one-page handout explaining why Ottawa County should follow the Trump energy plan rather than the Whitmer energy plan: Here is the same handout with footnotes:
Majority of Polkton Township Board Members Have Already Indicated They Want Ottawa County To Pursue Actions That Will Save The Campbell — Hopefully Other Townships and the County Will Join themMajority of Polkton Township Board Members Have Already Indicated They Want Ottawa County To Pursue Actions That Will Save The Campbell — Hopefully Other Townships and the County Will Join them
In response to a speech delivered tonight to the Polkton Township Board, a majority of their Board members have already indicated to us they want to pursue actions which will “Save The Campbell”. Township Board Trustees Jesse Meerman, Betsy Meerman, David Biller and Marlin Van Den Brink let us know this. The others are considering […]
With the Rising Threat of an Electric Energy Crisis, Ottawa County Needs to Act: Speech Before the Polkton Township Board on 03/06/2025With the Rising Threat of an Electric Energy Crisis, Ottawa County Needs to Act: Speech Before the Polkton Township Board on 03/06/2025
Joseph Parnell McCarter, Georgetown Township, volunteer leader of SaveTheCampbell effort. I thank this Board for passing the Campbell Resolution. Because you and other township boards did, it encouraged the Ottawa County Board to do the same last week. But just a few hours after the County passed its resolution, Consumers Energy VP Maddipati said that […]