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No Jack, the Upper Peninsula will not freeze when Governor Whitmer shuts down Line 5
Saturday , 2, January 2021 COVID_19, Enbridge Line 5, Environment, Upper Peninsula Leave a commentSelf-declared thorn in Governor Whitmer’s side Jack O’Malley (R – It’s really complicated!) in a matter of hours went from declaring full and complete investigations into all alleged election fraud in Michigan to declaring full and complete support of keeping Enbridge Line 5 open else the Upper Peninsula will become a frozen wasteland. Jack even […]
Public Notified of Yet Another Oil Spill in Michigan a Month After it Happens
Thursday , 1, February 2018 Environment Leave a commentOn December 27, 2017, Merit Energy of Dallas, Texas, notified the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality an oil pipeline in Manistee County leaked approximately fifty barrels of oil into a wetland. Media sources are just now learning about the spill a month after the MDEQ received notification. According to the MDEQ, Merit Energy reported the […]
Earth First! Closes Weekend Gathering in Michigan by Staging Protest at the Home of Attorney General Bill Schuette
Thursday , 7, July 2016 Bill Schuette, Enbridge Line 5, Environment Leave a commentEarth First! held a weekend gathering in the Manistee National Forest near Free Soil over the 4th of July Weekend. They concluded that gathering by holding a protest in front of Attorney General Bill Schuette’s Midland home on the afternoon of July 6, 2016; demonstrating against the Embridge Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of […]
Enbridge Donates $20k To Repair Damaged Straits Memorial
Thursday , 14, January 2016 Enbridge Line 5, Upper Peninsula Leave a commentThe Pere Marquette National Memorial will be revitalized in part from a donation made by Enbridge Energy Partners. The money will be used by the Michigan Historical Society to rebuild part of the memorial destroyed by fire in 2000. The national memorial is dedicated to the memory of Father Jacques Marquette; he founded the first […]
Pipe Out Paddle Protest Scheduled for September 6 At Mackinac Bridge
Monday , 24, August 2015 Enbridge Line 5, Environment, Upper Peninsula 4 CommentsEnbridge Line 5 – the heavy crude pipe that runs through the Straits of Mackinac under the Mackinac Bridge is 62 years old. After the disaster that happened in the Kalamazoo River with Line 6B in 2010, the people of Michigan want Governor Snyder and Lansing to know that it’s time to remove the pipeline […]
Sierra Club Sues U.S. Forest Service Over Aged Oil Pipeline Permit
Monday , 19, January 2015 Environment Leave a commentThe Michigan Chapter of the Sierra Club filed suit in U.S. District Court in Bay City on January 15 against the U.S. Forest Service. The Lawsuit was filed to compel the federal agency to complete a much-needed inspection of Enbridge oil pipeline number 5 before issuing a permit allowing it to continue transporting oil through […]
State of Michigan Seeks Public Comment On Independent Analysis of Aging Mackinac Oil Pipeline
Monday , 1, February 2016 Up North Progressive Enbridge Line 5, Environment 1 CommentThe Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and Michigan Agency for Energy invite public comments on two draft documents to hire contractors to perform inspection and analysis of Enbridge line 5, the 60 year old oil pipeline that runs under the Mackinac bridge through the Straits of Mackinac. Enbridge Line 5 carries over 20 million gallons […]