by Kevon Martis, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow As appearing in Daily News I am writing in response to the recent column from Apex Clean Energy salesman Dan Paris which makes a number of false claims about the grassroots coalition I founded in 2011 in Blissfield, Michigan, the Interstate Informed Citizen’s Coalition or “IICC.” The [...]
by Elisabeth Waldon Daily News (MI) PINE TOWNSHIP — The Pine Township Board heard nearly an hour of public comment at Monday’s meeting focused on the township’s need for an updated wind energy ordinance. Audience members also repeatedly asked the township board to place a moratorium on any township wind activity, but Supervisor Bill Drews [...]
by Phil Foley The County Press NORTH BRANCH TWP. — More than 150 filled a meeting room at North Branch Wesleyan Church Tuesday (Feb. 19) night to hear the other side of the wind energy debate. Last month the North Branch Township Hall meeting room was standing room only for a presentation by three wind [...]
by Robert Bradley, Jr. Master Resource In “Coal-Backed Anti-Wind Guru Barrels into Ohio’s Seneca County to Attack Wind Energy,” Scott Peterson, executive director of Checks and Balances Project, “an investigative blog that seeks to hold government officials, lobbyists and corporate management accountable to the public,” goes after one regular citizen, Kevon Martis. Citizen Martis is [...]
by Chris Ehrmann National Wind Watch KAWKAWLIN, MI – Township officials from around Michigan and a group of about 300 citizens gathered Tuesday in Bay County at a forum where they heard from a speaker critical of wind energy. Energy companies are looking at several sites in Bay County as possible locations for a new [...]
Energy Central News The local V.F.W. Post #1379 will host an informational session regarding industrial wind turbines next Tuesday at 6 p.m. There are two scheduled guest speakers for this October 2nd event. Kevon Martis is a Senior Policy Fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute in Washington, D.C. Read more.
by Richard Stegman If one drives from Bellevue to Attica you will notice the numerous Anti-Wind for Seneca County signs in the front yards of homes. They do far out-number the Pro-Wind Energy signs. One will also be struck that most of the pro-wind signs are in areas without homes; just open fields. And on [...]
Click here to download a complete pdf version of E&E Legal Letters Issue XVIII Winter 2018. Click headlines for the full article. The EPA Cleans Up Its Science. Now Congress should act to lock in place data transparency. by Steve Milloy, Senior Policy Fellow, as appearing in the Wall Street Journal The Environmental Protection Agency [...]
by Mitchell Kirk Pharos-Tribune Regulations in Cass County fall short of ones an advocate of wind turbine zoning says are necessary for health, safety and welfare. Kevon Martis, former vice chairman of the Riga Township Planning Commission in southeastern Michigan's Lenawee County, addressed a crowd of about 230 in the Community Center at the Cass [...]
L'Anse Sentinel Friends of the Land of the Keweenaw (FOLK) hosted a meeting Feb. 1, 2018 at the American Legion in L’Anse from 6:30-8 p.m. concerning the development of wind turbines proposed by Renewable Energy Systems Americas Inc. (RES Americas), out of Broomfield, CO. The meeting was put together after RES proposed the construction of approximately 100 or more wind turbines in L’Anse Township on Weyerhaeuser property combining a total [...]
