Communique

Emails to the Editor

Tilting at Windmills

Oil is gushing into the Kalamazoo River. Coal plants are filling Great Lakes fish with toxic chemicals. Fossil fuel pollution is cooking the planet. And the Metropolitan thinks the biggest threat to Lake Michigan is…windmills? Give me a break. Lakefront residents may be bent on protecting their views, but I would have thought the Metropolitan would know better than to second their claims about wind turbines. Michigan factories are already producing these effective, efficient machines. Unlike so-called “clean coal” plants, they actually exist and actually work. This publication is the face of Michigan for people passing through. By choosing to spotlight our state’s growing green economy, you might help to draw additional investments here, instead of tarring us as the befuddled backwater so many outsiders already seem to think we are.

Sincerely,

Joel Batterman, Ann Arbor

Editor’s reply

A second read of ‘The Lake Michigan Power Coalition, Concerned Citizens Unite Against Wind Power in the Lake’ Aug issue, 2010, will show that The Metropolitan offers a compromise regarding the windmills; test them in Detroit, where there exists the workforce and poor economy that may benefit from such a project. Why chance endangering the lake when we can rebuild Detroit instead? And, Joel, don’t worry so much about what ‘outsiders’ think of you. We know you’re not ‘befuddled backwater’; you’re a shining star, a pretty princess, and everyone likes you.

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Ahoy! Detroit!

Hi Tony… Thought of you on our ‘Whale Watching’ excursion…  🙂

Roving Reporter, Nancy Harvey (Delta), sharing postcards from Alaska

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