The Michigan DNR is destroying the waters of northern Michigan. Northern Michigan relies heavily on tourism and fishing is part of that.

Thanks to the ice age (click here) and the incalculable grinding power of glaciers, Michigan has the largest coastline of any state excluding Alaska, more than 11,000 lakes, and over 36,000 miles of streams and rivers. More than 20 percent of the world's fresh water supply flows through Michigan and there is no geographical point in the state that is more than six miles from a stream, river or lake. And it snows and snows and rains - and then it rains some more. We Michiganders are a soggy bunch....

Besides the Au Sable River no endangered by hydrofracking because the surface will be disturbed once the subterranean land are destroyed. But, beside the Au Sable River, the Boardman River is not dead because the government looked the other way when citizens complained about the toxins in the water and the toxins in the sediment with the disturbance of the dams that formed unique ecosystems abundant with fish.

Snyder is corrupt to the core and this is more of the same. Those waters will not remain fishable once the drilling starts. The tourism industry in Northern Michigan was healthy and vital long before Snyder became Governor, they don't gas wells here.

By Cole Waterman | cwaterma@mlive.com 
on December 12, 2013 at 5:30 PM, updated December 13, 2013 at 9:56 AM

LANSING, MI — The controversial leasing of 2,800 (click here) acres near the Au Sable River to a Canadian gas and oil company has been approved, but with the caveat that no above-ground techniques be implemented to access the subterranean resources.

A Thursday, Dec. 12, meeting of the Natural Resources Commission in Lansing saw 

Michigan Department of Natural Resources Director Keith Creagh approve the results of an Oct. 28, oil and gas lease auction to Encana Corp., with the stipulation that the acres along the Au Sable River Holy Waters corridor are nondevelopmental.

A nondevelopment lease does not allow the use of the surface for oil and gas exploration or development, DNR officials explained.

The Holy Waters corridor is an 8.7-mile stretch of land  that begins just east of the city of Grayling in Crawford County and meanders east from Burton's Landing to Wakeley Bridge. It's known for its wadable water, dependable insect hatches and quality trout fishing, according to the DNR....