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Enbridge lawsuit countering order to shut down Line 5 delayed again; Court rules ‘rights of nature’ case can move forward

The tunnel would house a replacement for a portion of Enbridge’s Line 5 that crosses the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac, a waterway connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan

Enbridge's Line 3 oil pipeline enters critical month in June STEVE KARNOWSKI, Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3FILE - In this June 29, 2018, file photo, pipeline used to carry crude oil is shown at the Superior, Wis., terminal of Enbridge Energy. June will be a critical month for Enbridge Energy's Line 3 crude oil pipeline as the company resumes construction and opponents mobilize for large-scale protests and civil disobedience. Winona LaDuke of Honor the Earth says she expects thousands of people from across the state and country to join the protests in northern Minne...

As Enbridge scoffs at the law, Governor Whitmer threatens to seize illegal profits Photo by ehrlif/iStock By mid-May 2021, there was no longer supposed to be tens of millions of gallons of oil and gas moving daily through a pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac. In November 2020, Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer revoked an easement for Canadian fuel company Enbridge to keep using its Line 5 fossil fuel conduit. Environmental activists and Native American tribes that had long advocated for shutting down the aging pipeline celebrated.  But the May 12 deadline for Enbridge to stop using th...

0:50 Six months ago, Governor Gretchen Whitmer gave Enbridge Energy 180 days to stop transporting oil under the Straits of Mackinac. That deadline arrived on Wednesday. Enbridge is defying the order, as Line 5 continues to operate. Mary Brady-Enerson is the executive director of Clean Water Action in Michigan. She was among the dozens of protesters serving symbolic eviction notices to the lawyers and lobbyists of the Canadian oil transport company. “Let everyone know that the people of Michigan don’t want this thing. Enbridge is trespassing. They aren’t trustworthy and we want them out ...