Halting Enbridge Energy’s oil pumping beneath the Straits of Mackinac was key promise in the Democratic campaigns of Michigan’s next governor and attorney general. Can they deliver?
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Opinion | My family helped build Mackinac Bridge. It shouldn’t own Line 5 tunnel.
Gov. Rick Snyder’s plan for Mackinac Bridge Authority to assume ownership of tunnel is a big mistake, says a woman whose family has been involved with the operation of the Mighty Mac since 1950.
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Opinion | I’m on the Mackinac Bridge Authority. We should oversee Line 5 tunnel.
If the Mackinac Bridge Authority doesn’t oversee a tunnel around Line 5, who should, argues the recently retired director of the Michigan Department of Transportation.
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
In Northern Michigan, tribes protesting Line 5 hunker down for winter
Representing Native Americans across Michigan and beyond, a small group of “water protectors” say they plan to camp out near the Straits of Mackinac until Enbridge Energy’s oil pipeline is shut down.
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Michigan tribes say Line 5 pipeline tunnel plan ignores treaty rights
Grand Traverse Band says ‘we were here first,’ but have been ‘pushed aside and treated as second-class people’ during debate and discussion about the controversial oil pipeline.
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Opinion | Line 5 tunnel is good for Michigan workers
Something that often gets lost in the fight over the Line 5 tunnel is how many good construction jobs for Michigan workers will be created, says the president of the Michigan Building Trades and Construction Council.
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Opinion | Line 5 tunnel is a huge improvement. Construction needs to start yesterday
Anthony England has worked on thorny problems before at NASA, and he’s convinced that the tunnel under the straits is a solution that is overdue.
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Opinion | A tunnel for Line 5 is good news – for Canadians
Gov. Rick Snyder got suckered by Enbridge into a deal that doesn’t protect the Great Lakes for years, and financially benefits only the Canadian oil industry, not Michigan residents.
Posted inMichigan Environment Watch
Enbridge to build $350M tunnel to protect Line 5 in Straits of Mackinac
Gov. Rick Snyder announces that he won’t seek shutdown of controversial oil pipeline, opting instead for an agreement with its owners, Enbridge Energy, to protect it with a tunnel.
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Michigan environment roundup: Could Michigan voters decide Line 5’s fate?
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