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ITC Holdings Corporation earns DEQ Clean Corporate Citizen Award
The DEQ today presented one of its highest environmental stewardship honors – the Clean Corporate Citizen Award – to ITC Holdings Corporation at the company’s Novi headquarters. ITC is the 174th Michigan facility to receive this honor.
The C3 Program is a voluntary environmental program that recognizes environmental stewardship at Michigan facilities. Candidates demonstrate facility-specific environmental management systems, have active pollution prevention initiatives at their facilities, and have a consistent record of compliance with state and federal environmental requirements.
Based in Novi, Michigan, ITC is the nation’s largest fully independent electric transmission company, providing the bulk transfer of electrical energy from generating plants to substations serving communities and businesses across the state. ITC owns and operates high-voltage transmission facilities in Michigan, Iowa, Minnesota, Illinois, Missouri, and Kansas along approximately 15,000 circuit miles of transmission line.
“We are pleased that our environmental management system enabled us to recover more than 5.7 million pounds of recycled metal and 284,000 gallons of oil across our operations in 2011 alone,” said Gregory Loanidis, president, ITC Michigan. “We are honored to receive this recognition from the State of Michigan, and we will continue to look for ways to reduce our impact on the environment while investing in the transmission grid to improve reliability, expand access to markets, lower the overall cost of delivered energy, and allow new generating resources to connect to our systems.”
The C3 Award joins a number of honors that ITC has received from national and local environmental and ecological organizations.
ITC Holdings Corporation earns DEQ Clean Corporate Citizen Award
New transmission lines for Gratiot wind farm now underway
The spot where trucks and materials are pulling in and out of Begole Road at M-46 is a staging area for the building of a new ITC transmission substation.
It will also include upgrades to its high voltage transmission lines.
ITC’s project was needed so it could “increase the line’s capacity to accommodate the full output of the wind farm,” according to an ITC statement.
The project began in Porter Township in Midland County in June, 2011 and that phase of the project was completed in October.
Work on this end of the project is expected to be finished at the end of this year.
ITC Decorates Transmission Towers with Festive Lighting as part of Holiday Tradition
NOVI, Mich., December 7, 2011 – ITC Holdings Corp., owner and operator of the high-voltage electricity grid in Michigan, has lit up nine of its 150-foot tall transmission towers in Michigan with colorful holiday decorations. The transmission towers are decorated with approximately one quarter mile of rope lights (16,000 bulbs). The decorations include 10- by 15-foot Happy Holidays signs and brightly lit stars at the tower tops. The festive lights will shine every evening until New Year’s Day.
ITCTransmission Grant Will Help Plan 850 Trees
Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson thanked ITCTransmission of Novi, Michigan today for awarding the county a $100,000 matching grant to plant trees on public land in the Rouge Watershed in Farmington Hills, Novi and West Bloomfield. ITC's grant doubles the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative $100,000 grant to Oakland County which together will help plant about 850 trees at 20 separate locations.
The 850 trees, when mature, will have the following impact, according to the USDA:
- They will remove more than 20 tons of carbon dioxide from the air per year
- They will release enough oxygen in a year to sustain 1,700 humans
- They will reduce runoff caused by rainfall by up to 850,000 gallons per year
- And each of these trees will be capable of reducing noise pollution by 10 decibels
ITC Receives the Pollution Protection Award as part of Washtenaw County's Environmental Excellence Awards
These recognitions are presented to businesses and non-profit organizations with positive environmental management practices in three important areas: waste reduction and recycling, water quality protection, and pollution prevention initiatives and compliance. In addition, an overall winner encompassing multiple environmental protection areas is selected.
Oakland County Honors ITC Holdings Corp.'s Donna Zalewski with Heritage Partner Award
Oakland County's Department of Economic Development & Community Affairs today honored ITC's Donna Zalewski, Director Local Government & Community Affairs, with the Heritage Partner Award for her contributions to helping preserve the county's natural heritage.
Patterson Hails Three Outstanding Community Leaders at 19th Annual Quality People, Quality County Breakfast
Pontiac, Michigan -- Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson today honored three individuals for making Oakland County a better place to live, work, play and raise a family at the 19th Annual Quality People, Quality County (Q2) breakfast at the Centerpoint Marriot in Pontiac.
Receiving accolades this year were Marye Miller, executive director of the Older Persons’ Commission (OPC) in Rochester; Forrest Milzow, philanthropist and owner of the Deer Lake Athletic Club in Clarkston; and Joseph Welch, president and CEO of ITC Holdings in Novi.
Oakland County Michigan - Press Release - September 14, 2011