The Leelanau County Board of Commissioners approved 6-1 a request by the county’s Energy Futures Task Force to write a Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy (EGLE) grant that could provide up to $100,000 for a “county-wide energy survey.”
“The Leelanau County Energy Futures Task Force wants to represent all county residents as we move forward with mandated more environmental energy coming from renewable and green sources,” county commissioner and Energy Futures Task Force member Kama Ross explained.
Ross said that the survey would come at no cost to the county. If EGLE awards the county a grant, Ross said they would recruit graduate students from the University of Michigan’s Environment and Sustainability College to conduct the survey. Once completed, the survey findings would be made publicly available.
