Author: savethecampbell

Speech Before the Zeeland Township Board on 03/04/2025: Action Items Now to Save The Campbell!Speech Before the Zeeland Township Board on 03/04/2025: Action Items Now to Save The Campbell!

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 […]

The Huge GHAPS Budget Deficit Grand Haven Is Upset About Is Only One Casualty of the Campbell ClosureThe Huge GHAPS Budget Deficit Grand Haven Is Upset About Is Only One Casualty of the Campbell Closure

The Campbell has been the largest source of GHAPS tax revenues, so its closure significantly hurts it. People need to be made aware of this, and they can read about its effect here: https://www.hollandsentinel.com/story/news/local/2023/06/07/planned-campbell-plant-closure-opens-up-property-for-development/70292298007/ . Grand Haven residents are responding negatively to the cuts they are now learning about, as described at https://restoreottawa.substack.com/p/grand-haven-residents-unhappy-with : “Superintendent […]

MPSC-Consumers Energy Officials Say Ottawa County and Township Concerns Do Not Matter / Ottawa County and Township CAN Make Them MatterMPSC-Consumers Energy Officials Say Ottawa County and Township Concerns Do Not Matter / Ottawa County and Township CAN Make Them Matter

County and Township boards have presented well-documented warnings by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and grid operator MISO, but officials with the MPSC and Consumers Energy quickly shrugged them off without even really addressing their contents.* The Michigan constitution gives the county significant legal levers to pull, and we hope Ottawa County takes […]

Thanks to the County Board for passing the Resolution! Recommended follow-up action.Thanks to the County Board for passing the Resolution! Recommended follow-up action.

As reported here and elsewhere, the Republicans on the Ottawa County Board passed the excellent Campbell Resolution they drafted. Special thanks to Commissioners Bonnema, Miedema, and Brugger for hammering it out for the Board to consider, and thanks to the Republican Board members for passing it. The discussion and passage of the resolution can be […]

An Excellent Campbell Resolution that the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners will be Voting on at its February 25, 2025 Meeting, D.V.An Excellent Campbell Resolution that the Ottawa County Board of Commissioners will be Voting on at its February 25, 2025 Meeting, D.V.

The “Save The Campbell” effort thanks and applauds the Board for drafting this excellent resolution: COUNTY OF OTTAWA STATE OF MICHIGAN RESOLUTION At a regular meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the County of Ottawa, Michigan, held at the Fillmore Street Complex in the Township of Olive, Michigan, on the 25th of February, 2025 […]

Port Sheldon Township Supervisor is wrong when he asserts Ottawa County can do nothing to stop the Campbell closure!Port Sheldon Township Supervisor is wrong when he asserts Ottawa County can do nothing to stop the Campbell closure!

I am thankful the County Board is moving towards the first important step of passing a resolution to delay closure. Unlike what he asserts below, the Michigan Constitution gives Ottawa County significant legal powers over the Campbell IF we choose to use those legal levers, as we should. See SaveTheCampbell.com for the legal levers that […]