From: Whipple, Deb (GOV)
Sent: Friday, July 30, 2010 4:50 PM
Subject: What the Governor's Talking about Today
What the Governor’s Talking about Today

Friday, July 30, 2010

 

Battle Creek Press Conference This Evening Will Update Oil Spill Cleanup Efforts

The governor along with Senator Debbie Stabenow, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson and others will hold a press conference this evening in Battle Creek updating the latest efforts to clean up the Enbridge oil spill in the Kalamazoo River.

 

On Monday, Enbridge reported that a 30-inch pipeline belonging to the company burst in Marshall, leaking an estimated one million gallons of crude oil into Talmadge Creek, a waterway that feeds the Kalamazoo River. While the oil leak has stopped, the spill has affected up to 25 miles of the Kalamazoo River.  The spill site, located between Marshall and Battle Creek, includes marshlands, residential areas, farmland and businesses.

Governor Says Chrysler’s Sterling Heights Assembly Plant Announcement ‘Best News of the Summer’

The governor today said that Chrysler’s announcement that it’ll keep its Sterling Heights Assembly Plant open past its scheduled 2012 closing date is “the best news of the summer.”
 
“This is a project that we and the Michigan Economic Development Corporation have worked on long and hard along with Macomb County, the city of Sterling Heights and many others,” the governor said.  “The fact that the more than 1,000 workers at the plant will keep their jobs, and a second shift of another 900 workers will be added in 2011, is a tremendous economic boost.  This is a fabulous day for Chrysler and Michigan.”

 

Next Week Marks One-Year Anniversary of Milestone in Vehicle Electrification

In her weekly radio address, the governor today said that next week marks the one-year anniversary of a milestone in the electrification of the automobile.
 
“On August 5, 2009, Vice President Joe Biden came to Michigan to announce that $1.35 billion in U.S. Department of Energy grants, funded by the Recovery Act, had been awarded to several Michigan companies to support advanced battery and electric vehicle manufacturing and development,” the governor said.  “And what a 12 months we’ve had since then.  We now have 16 advanced battery companies with ongoing projects in Michigan, representing almost $6 billion in capital investment and estimated to create almost 62,000 new jobs over the next 10 years.”

 

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To listen to the radio address, click on the following link:

http://www.michigan.gov/documents/gov/Gov260Full_329214_7.mp3 
 

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