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ENVIRON ACTION COUNCIL v. NRC

Docket No. 60800, (Calendar No. 6).

405 Mich. 741 (1979)

275 N.W.2d 538

WEST MICHIGAN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COUNCIL v. NATURAL RESOURCES COMMISSION

Supreme Court of Michigan.

Decided February 20, 1979.

Certiorari denied November 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roger L. Conner for plaintiffs.

Frank J. Kelley, Attorney General, Robert A. Derengoski, Solicitor General, and Stewart H. Freeman and Thomas F. Schimpf, Assistants Attorney General, for the defendants.

Foster, Swift, Collins & Coey, P.C. (by Richard B. Foster, Webb A. Smith, and Terence V. Lynam), for intervening defendants Shell Oil Company, Amoco Production Company, and Northern Michigan Exploration Company.

Amici Curiae:

James M. Olson for Environmental Law Society of University of Michigan Law School and Public Interest Research Group in Michigan.

Decided February 20, 1979. Rehearing denied 406 Mich. 1121.

Certiorari denied by the Supreme Court of the United States November 5, 1979.

BLAIR MOODY, JR., J.

The issue is whether plaintiffs have made a prima facie showing under the Michigan environmental protection act, MCL 691.1201 et seq.; MSA 14.528(201) et seq., that the drilling of ten exploratory wells in the Pigeon River Country State Forest will constitute a likely impairment...

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