Alcona County v. Wolverine Environmental Production, Inc.

Defendant, Wolverine Environmental Production, Inc., appeals by leave granted the trial court’s partial grants of summary disposition in favor of plaintiffs Alcona County (Alcona) in Docket No. 196934 and Alpena County (Alpena) in Docket No. 199408. In each of these cases, consolidated on appeal, defendant failed to obtain soil erosion and sedimentation permits as required by plaintiff coun ties in connection with earth changes relating to defendant’s natural gas well sites. In Docket No. 196934, the trial court determined that Alcona was not preempted by the Legislature from enforcing or…