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Freighter Fails in Great Lakes Highlight Line 5 Risks
After the devastating collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore, Michiganders are not ruling out a similar tragedy in the Great Lakes. After obtaining a public records request from the U.S. Coast Guard, a new report in the Detroit News discovered that Great Lakes freighters lost control or power more than 200 times between 2012 and May 2022, and crashed with stationary objects more than 60 times over the same decade. While the News notes that a freighter crash similar to the Key Bridge tragedy is unlikely with the Mackinac Bridge, there is a profound risk of damaging Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac.
Clean Water Waves | In The News, August 2023
Our work to protect clean water across the country often makes the news. Clean Water Waves highlights recent articles featuring our staff speaking on their areas of activism and expertise.
Knowledge Is Power: Energy Self Reliance In Iowa
The Public Power Project travelled across the Midwest where communities are maintaining their own energy grids, learning the sometimes complicated world of power generation, or fighting for local control over the flow of resources and capital in their communities.
Knowledge Is Power: Energizing The Midwest
The Public Power Project travelled across the Midwest where communities are maintaining their own energy grids, learning the sometimes complicated world of power generation, or fighting for local control over the flow of resources and capital in their communities.
New Report Shows the Current Landscape of Public Power in the Midwest
In the last year the Public Power Project collaboration has investigated the state of public power across the Midwest looking towards the necessary transition to renewable energy. With record temperatures and rapid changes in weather patterns, the urgency of finding new ways to support communities in this transition is worthy of study.