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April 15, 2022: Deadline for submitting comments to DNR re: Line 5

April 12, 2022 We are water. Our bodies are made of 60% water, which we draw from rivers, aquifers, rain, and lakes. Clean water is an essential right for all of us, no matter where we live. In neighboring Wisconsin, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is calling for support to protect their drinking […]

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Line 5 D-Day: May 12—Will Enbridge shut it down or will the public do it for them?

By Barbara WithMay 9, 2021 In three days, Canadian oil corporation Enbridge Energy Ltd. faces a deadline to shut down a four-mile segment of pipeline that runs under the Straits of Mackinac in northern Michigan. In November 2020, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) terminated the 1953 easement that allowed […]

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