The planning commission in Eaton County’s Hamlin Township is giving a bitcoin mining operation the proverbial cold shoulder after getting more than an earful from residents opposed to the project.
Township planners on Wednesday denied the Grand River Power Company’s request to change the zoning on company land near Smithville Dam from agricultural to industrial during a public hearing.
The power company installed a bitcoin mining container on the property earlier this year without notifying township officials, according to township zoning administrator Denise Perkins…