A2: Environment

In the Toledo Blade, columnist Jack Lessenberry writes about the efforts of Phil Power – who founded the Ann Arbor-based Center for Michigan – to fight the proposed Eagle Prospect Mine, which Kennecott Minerals Corp. is about excavate beneath the Salmon Trout River in the Upper Peninsula. Power fears the potential environmental impact could be similar to what’s happening with the BP oil spill in the Gulf: “I told my wife, Kathy, that I’d be damned if I go to Florida and lie on the beach while my state goes to hell. I’m in it for my grandchildren’s Michigan.” [Source]