Tell Senator Gary Peters: Help Us Shut Down Line 5
Michigan’s U.S. Senator Gary Peters is one of the most powerful politicians in Washington, DC. Senator Peters has been a leader in protecting the Great Lakes from a catastrophic Line 5 crude oil pipeline rupture, but we need him to do more.
No safe pipeline in Straits of Mackinac: Advocates appeal
LANSING, Mich. (WLNS) — State regulators ruled in December the best solution to protect the Great Lakes from a disaster is to allow the Canadian oil giant Enbridge to build a $500 million, concrete-lined protective tunnel around its aging, 71-year-old dual pipelines.
Two advocacy groups, the Environmental Law & Policy Center and Michigan Climate Action Network, have now filed a brief asking the Michigan Court of Appeals to reverse that decision, saying there are safer and less expensive alternatives to the proposed Line 5 tunnel.
In this photo provided by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy, footage played on a television screen shows damage to anchor support EP-17-1 on the east leg of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline within the Straits of Mackinac, Mich., in June 2020. A federal review of plans for the Great Lakes oil pipeline tunnel will take more than a year longer than originally planned, officials said Thursday, March 23, 2023, likely delaying completion of the project — if approved — until 2030 or later. (Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy via AP, File)
Read moreGroup plans legal pushback on permit for Line 5 tunnel project
The Michigan Climate Action Network says it will join challenges to a permit approved last December by the state public service commission.
By Izzy Ross
Line 5 crosses tribal lands, runs beneath the water and needs major upgrades. Opponents fear spills. Supporters envision jobs. Everyone sees a fight.
By Rebecca Halleck and Dionne Searcey
Rebecca Halleck reported from St. Ignace, Mich., and the Bad River Reservation in Wisconsin. Dionne Searcey reported from New York.
Whitney Gravelle, president of the Bay Mills Indian Community, which opposes the pipeline. Cydni Elledge for The New York Times
Read moreTwo groups seek to stop Line 5 tunnel project with appeal to Michigan court
Written by Jakkar Aimery, The Detroit News
Michigan Climate Action Network, together with the Environmental Law & Policy Center, is seeking a legal appeal of the Michigan Public Service Commission's decision to allow the building of a tunnel to house the Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac.
Environmental, Clean Energy Groups Appeal Michigan PSC’s Approval of Line 5 Tunnel/pipeline Project under Straits of Mackinac
“The last thing we need to be doing is building new fossil fuel infrastructure like a new pipeline under the Straits and locking in more reliance on oil”
Read moreWhy more than 60 Indigenous nations oppose the Line 5 oil pipeline
The 70 year-old pipeline, which just won a key permit, poses “an unacceptable risk of an oil spill into the Great Lakes.”
Written by Anita Hofschneider, Senior Staff Writer at Grist.
AP Photo/Al Goldis, FileAmerica’s Most Dangerous Pipeline Lives Another Day
Enbridge keeps a time bomb ticking beneath the waters of the Great Lakes
Written by Conor Mihell, editor-at-large with Canoe and Kayak magazine based in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario
A pipeline used to carry crude oil sits at the Superior, Wisconsin, terminal of Enbridge Energy. | Photo by Jim Mone/File