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Clean Water Action Welcomes Senator Sanders’ Statement Opposing Line 5 Oil Tunnel
The following statement can be attributed to Sean McBrearty, Michigan Campaign Organizer, Clean Water Action:
“Today, Senator Bernie Sanders has joined Michigan residents, groups, and tribal communities in opposition to Enbridge Energy’s plan to build an oil tunnel through the Straits of Mackinac for the outdated and corroding Line 5 pipeline. Washington Governor Jay Inslee previous spoke in support of efforts to decommission Line 5 without a replacement tunnel. Climate change is already impacting our water and health -- we have to address this crisis now by transitioning to a clean energy
Governor Inslee’s Statement on Line 5 Shows Bold Leadership on Climate
The following statement can be attributed to Sean McBrearty, Michigan Program Organizer, Clean Water Action:
“Clean Water Action welcomes Governor Inslee's statement on the future of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 pipeline, and the detrimental climate impacts of continued reliance on Line 5. When the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has raised the somber fact that we have less than twelve years to decarbonize our economy in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, we can’t waste time building an oil tunnel through the heart of the Great Lakes. We should focus on rapidly
Update on Nestle’s attempt to withdraw and privatize more of Michigan’s water
Over the course of the last winter, Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality held a public comment period on Nestle again asking to increase the amount of water that they take from a well in Osceola Township, Michigan. Clean Water Action members from across the state made their voices heard.
Representative Brian Elder's Pro- Line 5 Statement as corrected by Clean Water Action
Representative Elder's original statement was riddled with errors -- so we fixed it.
Download a PDF version of the corrections here.
LANSING — Public Act 359 of 2018 passed the Michigan Legislature last December creating the Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority to oversee the construction and management of a utility tunnel to modernize the oil and gas pipeline keep an outdated and climate-change inducing 19 th century fuel source operating through the Straits of Mackinac and house Enbridge Energy’s Line 5. Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a lawsuit to terminate the operation of the existing
Michigan’s Outdated and Dangerous Combined Sewer Systems
Many of Michigan’s urban and suburban areas expanded rapidly between the 1920s and the 1950s — an era with different priorities for water management. Many of Michigan’s water systems were originally built as combined systems, meaning the pipes carried both stormwater and wastewater. These systems simply discharged all water directly into local lakes, rivers, and streams, without treatment. Wastewater treatment centers were built later, and the combined sewer pipes were redirected there for the water to be processed before being released back into the water table. Starting in the mid-1950s