Latest Au Sable river Stories

OSCODA, Mich., May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Consumers Energy, in coordination with the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, announced plans for reconstruction of the tailwater fishing access at Foote Dam on the Au Sable River. The popular fishing site, which is located at the Consumers Energy renewable energy hydroelectric plant, is operated under a lease agreement by the Michigan DNR. Reconstruction of the site is required due to deterioration along a sheet pile wall that...

By Sheri McWhirter, The Record-Eagle, Traverse City, Mich. Jul. 13--GRAYLING -- Opponents of a plan to drill for natural gas beneath a wilderness area known as the Mason Tract are celebrating a federal judge's decision to block mineral exploration there. A judge determined federal officials failed to perform adequate environmental assessments prior to granting approval to drill. "Absent of going back and doing the full environmental impact statement or appealing, it's dead," said Marvin...

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. (AP) -- A federal judge has overturned a decision by the U.S. Forest Service to allow oil and gas drilling near a forest and a river in Michigan's northern Lower Peninsula. U.S. District Judge David Lawson of Detroit ruled Thursday the agency had acted "arbitrarily and capriciously" in 2005 by giving Savoy Energy LP of Traverse City a permit to drill an exploratory well near the Au Sable River's south branch. The proposed wellhead would be located in the Huron-Manistee...