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Michigan GOP Votes to Continue Risking Great Lakes for Oil Industry Profits
"No agency has actually examined the environmental impacts of tunneling through the Great Lakes bottomlands in an area where we'd have explosion risks underneath an operating pipeline. This does not make the Great Lakes safer. This is not safer for Michigan's workers or for our Great Lakes. This actually makes things worse."
Testimony Against Michigan HR 91 and the Proposed Line 5 Tunnel
The proposed Line 5 tunnel would keep the dangerous pipeline open for an expected additional decade, while the tunnel itself is an immensely risky venture with scientists raising red flags. However, responding to a executive order from President Trump the Army Corps of Engineers is speed-running the tunnel approval process - despite the immense risk.
Stick That in Your Pipeline and Smoke It!
Anybody who’s ever visited Michigan’s Great Lakes has been taken aback by their inspiring splendor and breath-taking beauty, laid out for all to see. What you don’t see, however, are Enbridge’s two aging pipelines, known as Line 5, that run under the Straits of Mackinac, the waterway that joins Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. And these old pipelines are not only hidden beneath this splendor and beauty, but they actually threaten to destroy it.
#MakeExxonPay More Day of Action
By Alessandro Ciari, former community organizer with Clean Water Action and student, Montclair State University "Ditch this dirty deal! Ditch this dirty deal!" chanted activists at a Day of Action at the Statehouse in Trenton yesterday. Environmental activists joined hundreds of concerned residents for a lobby day and rally against the egregious ExxonMobil settlement which lets the company off the hook for paying for over 100 years of pollution in New Jersey. “Governor Christie – Don’t Sell Us Out to Exxon! Don’t Sell Us Out to Exxon!” intoned the audience with signs that read “Make Polluters
No Oil Tunnel Gathering on Mackinac Island
Each year, business and political leaders from around the state gather for the Detroit Area Chamber Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island. Our window to prevent a disastrous new fossil fuel infrastructure through the heart of the Great Lakes is closing. Decision-makers need to hear from the public about the dangers of the proposed tunnel for the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline. Add your voice!