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yellowcanine

(35,698 posts)
Fri Nov 13, 2020, 06:41 PM Nov 2020

This is a BFD! Whitmer shuts down pipeline 5 to protect the Great Lakes.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/11/this-is-a-really-really-big-deal-michigan-gov-moves-to-shut-down-line-5-pipeline-to-protect-great-lakes/

Environmental and Indigenous activists celebrated Friday after Democratic Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer took action to shut down the decades-old Enbridge Line 5 oil and natural gas pipelines that run under the Straits of Mackinac, narrow waterways that connect Lake Huron and Lake Michigan—two of the Great Lakes.

Citing the threat to the Great Lakes as well as “persistent and incurable violations” by Enbridge, Whitmer and Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) Director Dan Eichinger informed the Canadian fossil fuel giant that a 1953 easement allowing it to operate the pipelines is being revoked and terminated.



I am thinking she is doing this now because she knows Biden will back her up and not fight her on this as Trump would.
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This is a BFD! Whitmer shuts down pipeline 5 to protect the Great Lakes. (Original Post) yellowcanine Nov 2020 OP
Great! SheltieLover Nov 2020 #1
Good thing we have a Democratic governor! Orange Buffoon Nov 2020 #2
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