Michigan Supreme Court rejects permit for Enbridge oil pipeline under Great Lakes
This photo provided by the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy in June 2020 shows damage to anchor support EP-17-1 on the east leg of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac in Michigan, displayed on a television screen. (Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy via AP, File) The corporate name is displayed on tanks at at the Superior terminal of Enbridge Energy in Superior, Wis., on June 29, 2018. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File) An above ground section of Enbridge’s Line 5 at the Mackinaw City, Mich., pump station on Oct. 7, 2016. (AP Photo/John Flesher, File) The Michigan Supreme Court has ordered state regulators to reconsider a key permit that allowed a planned tunnel to carry an oil pipeline under part of the Great Lakes to move forward. The 6-1 decision further clouds the future of the 73-year-old pipeline owned by Canadian energy transportation company Enbridge that carries petroleum from Superior, Wisconsin, to Sarnia, Ontario. Environmentalists and Michigan Gov.
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Opponents of the pipeline say this type of project has never been done anywhere else and would turn the Straits of Mackinac, which is a sacred site for the Indigenous Anishinaabe tribes, into a construction site for years. “Whether Line 5 is suspended in the water or encased in a tunnel, it is simply a terrible idea to pump more than half a million barrels of oil every day through the middle of the Great Lakes,” attorney David Gover with the Native American Rights Fund said in a statement.
