MI HR0230

Urges the Department of Natural Resources and Environment to approve pending air quality permits for the Wolverine Power Plant and Holland Municipal Expansion projects.

Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative seeks approval to construct a 600-megawatt base-load power plant in Rogers City, with application submitted in September 2007.

Holland Board of Public Works applied in January 2007 to expand the James DeYoung Generating Station with a new 78-megawatt boiler, both projects capable of converting biomass to electricity.

Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative received a nearly $3 million federal grant from the U.S. Department of Energy under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 for carbon capture and storage technology, contingent on permit approval.

Resolves to transmit copies of the resolution to the Governor and the Director of the Department of Natural Resources and Environment.