Industry, Business Groups Optimistic on Nickel Mining Bordering Lake Superior

Geologists and mining experts say Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula may provide a solution for an obstacle facing the electric vehicle transition.

Minerals are needed, and this area has them.

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City of Houghton Fights Walmart over ‘Dark Stores’, Lost Michigan Tax Revenue

A Michigan city in the Upper Peninsula is fighting Walmart over tax assessments.

The Center Square reported about the “dark stores” strategy in June 2021, when vacant big box retail stores often seek the property assessed at tax rates sometimes 50 percent lower than previous rates, which often leaves local taxpayers to foot the tab.

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Report: Line 5 Pipeline Disruption Would Cost Upper Peninsula Taxpayers Tens of Thousands of Dollars

A new report challenges efforts conducted by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s administration and Attorney General Dana Nessel to not only shut down the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac but prevent its replacement with a $500 million tunnel 100 feet below the lake bed.

The report also challenges 14 recommendations published last April by the Upper Peninsula Energy Task Force, a group established by the governor and chaired by Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE) Director Liesl Clark.

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Michigan Lawmaker Calls on National Park Service to Establish Moose Hunt on Isle Royale

Michigan State Rep. Steve Johnson (R-72) recently introduced a resolution calling on the National Park Service to establish a moose tag lottery hunt on Isle Royale National Park in an effort to help control the island’s exploding moose population.

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