Enbridge seeks permits to build Great Lakes oil tunnel

April 9, 2020 11:19 am Leave a comment

Fresh nuts, bolts and fittings are ready to be added on June 8 to the east leg of the pipeline near St. Ignace as Enbridge prepares to test the east and west sides of the Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac in Mackinaw City, Michigan. (Dale G Young/Detroit News via AP)/Detroit News via AP)

Enbridge Inc. applied Wednesday for state and federal authorization to build an oil-pipeline tunnel beneath the Michigan waterway that connects two of the Great Lakes.

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Senate OKs bill making it a felony to trespass on pipeline projects

November 6, 2019 4:27 pm Leave a comment

Tania Aubid, a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, protests the proposed Enbridge Line 3 on September 28, 2017, in St. Paul, Minnesota. Wisconsin lawmakers are debating a bill that would make it a felony for demonstrators to trespass onto the sites of pipelines and other infrastructure projects. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

A bill that would make it a felony to trespass on the site of a pipeline project earned the state Senate's approval on Tuesday.

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Enbridge open to routing Line 5 around Wisconsin reservation

July 25, 2019 11:10 am Leave a comment

Enbridge Inc. says it's willing to consider rerouting a major oil pipeline around the Bad River Reservation in northern Wisconsin.

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Enbridge pipeline project hits another Minnesota obstacle

June 19, 2019 11:32 am Leave a comment

Tanks at the Enbridge Energy terminal in Superior on June 29, 2018. Enbridge Energy's plan to replace its Line 3 crude oil pipeline across northern Minnesota has hit another obstacle. Earlier this month, a court said the project's environmental-impact statement failed to adequately discuss the possibility of an oil spill into the Lake Superior watershed. Now the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and Department of Natural Resources say they can't take final action on the project's permits until the Public Utilities Commission takes up the deficiencies. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Enbridge Energy's plan to replace an aging crude-oil pipeline that runs through northern Minnesota hit another obstacle Tuesday when two state agencies said they would hold up the approval of the project's permits until flaws in its environmental review are eliminated.

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Judge orders closer look at Great Lakes oil-spill plans

April 1, 2019 3:36 pm Leave a comment

A federal judge has ordered a government agency to take a closer look at pipeline company Enbridge's plans for dealing with possible oil spills in the waterway connecting Lakes Huron and Michigan.

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Judge says panel had authority to complete oil pipeline deal

March 11, 2019 1:18 pm Leave a comment

A judge has ruled that a Michigan panel's approval of an oil-pipeline tunnel beneath the Great Lakes should stay intact even though a state law set unconstitutionally long terms for authority members.

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Faith leaders and lawmakers press Walz about Line 3 pipeline

February 8, 2019 3:49 pm Leave a comment

Faith leaders gathered at the Capitol to urge Democratic Gov. Tim Walz to oppose Enbridge Energy's Line 3 oil-pipeline replacement, while a mostly Republican group of lawmakers urged him to let the project move forward.

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Four activists arrested in attempt to shut down oil pipeline

February 5, 2019 9:41 am Leave a comment

Four climate-change activists from the Catholic Worker movement were arrested on Monday in an attempt to shut down an Enbridge oil pipeline in north-central Minnesota.

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Michigan AG to review pipeline deal at governor’s request (UPDATE)

January 2, 2019 2:45 pm Leave a comment

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is asking the new state attorney general for a legal opinion on the constitutionality of a deal to run an oil pipeline beneath a crucial section of the Great Lakes.

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Outgoing Michigan governor pushing for Great Lakes pipeline

November 26, 2018 9:43 am Leave a comment

The Mackinac Bridge spans the Straits of Mackinac from Mackinaw City, Mich., in July 2002. Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder hopes to use the final weeks of his time in office to lock in a deal allowing the construction of a hotly debated oil pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes - a plan his successor is opposed to but may be powerless to stop. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio, File)

Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder hopes to use the final weeks of his time in office to lock in a deal allowing the construction of a hotly debated oil-pipeline tunnel beneath a channel linking two of the Great Lakes — a plan his successor opposes but may be powerless to stop.

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