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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.
Clean Water Action Renews Call for Governor Whitmer to Revoke Line 5 Easement Immediately
The following statement can be attributed to Sean McBrearty, Michigan Legislative and Policy Director, Clean Water Action:
“Last week, Governor Whitmer asked Enbridge Inc., to provide financial assurance mechanisms as well as an insurance policy for the Line 5 pipeline that names the state of Michigan as coinsured. We know that nothing will protect the Great Lakes from an increasingly likely Line 5 oil spill short of revoking Enbridge’s easement, but at the very least Enbridge’s insurance policy would ensure that Michigan taxpayers aren’t left holding the bag when a devastating oil spill
Comments on proposed regulations Credit for Carbon Oxide Sequestration
We are deeply concerned that the proposed regulations will continue to allow claimants of the Section 45Q tax credit to benefit from the production of fossil fuels without adequately demonstrating secure geologic storage of captured carbon, as the law requires.
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!