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click on link to take you to a page with various live cams trained on Mackinac Straits area
Today I’ve learned about two big developments in the fight against Canada’s Enbridge building a tunnel around their decrepit oil pipelines running under the Straits of Mackinac, where 21% of the world’s fresh water resides.
The first, at The Current on Substack, where, “This week, a federal judge ruled that the Tunnel Agreement between Enbridge and the State of Michigan is unlawful and therefore invalid.” Read the whole post HERE. The implications of that ruling are harrowing.
The second, at Turtle Talk, Bar River Sues Army Corps over Line 5, where is attached the complaint in Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians v. United States Army Corps of Engineers (D.D.C.). The complaint is a 25-page pdf outlining how the US ACoE has egregiously violated various things in regards to Line 5’s pipeline running in Wisconsin.
I would encourage you to first take a look at the web cams at the link in order to see with your own eyes what is at stake here. Should crude oil and corporations be allowed to obliterate fresh water and the myriad food webs that depend on it for the sake of $$$$$$ ?
Next, please take a look at both of the above articles and become informed. Watching a mini-series on Netflix last year, “Our Oceans,” it clearly demonstrates how our water systems are one large circulatory system for the planet. I imagine millions of gallons of filthy crude oil spilling into the fresh waters and upon the lands in Michigan and Wisconsin and then circulating into the waterways of the planet. It gives me a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Third, regardless of whether you live in either of these states, PLEASE write (or call) your elected representatives and let them know it is important to you that we protect the waters of the Straits of Mackinac and that we stop Canada’s Enbridge Energy Corporation from continuing to endanger it.
Thank you for your time in reading, becoming informed, and taking action.
Thank you to The Current, Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians, and Oil & Water Don’t Mix for standing up to The Forces of Evil.
I saw that a judge ruled that the state has no jurisdiction. Only the federal government can intervene regarding interstate transport of oil. Still waiting to see what happens here, with a proposed rerouting around Ojibwe land, but upstream of wild rice beds they rely on.
Dwight, I’m glad you got a chance to see it. Didn’t you have a vacay on Mackinac Island at that time? It’s an impressive structure, and when you think about how much water it crosses, it gives you an idea of how much water there is that is at risk.
Power seems to accept no boundaries and acts with impunity any which way it would seem. Amazing to see some successes in the courts. Bonus was the Midnight Oil ❤️
Over 1 billion acres of the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf has been made available for oil exploration and drilling- cutting largely impacting the over 120,000 Alaskans that rely on harvesting those waters for the majority of their food stuffs. And this is not taking into account all the wildlife killed or adversely affected by these same activities. They simply do not care.
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I saw that a judge ruled that the state has no jurisdiction. Only the federal government can intervene regarding interstate transport of oil. Still waiting to see what happens here, with a proposed rerouting around Ojibwe land, but upstream of wild rice beds they rely on.
Thanks for keeping this visible.
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I’m trying to post as I learn more. You are welcome.
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I loved seeing the Mackanak bridge when we were up there a couple of years ago. Our infrastructure is not much better I fear! Just a matter of time.
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Dwight, I’m glad you got a chance to see it. Didn’t you have a vacay on Mackinac Island at that time? It’s an impressive structure, and when you think about how much water it crosses, it gives you an idea of how much water there is that is at risk.
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Power seems to accept no boundaries and acts with impunity any which way it would seem. Amazing to see some successes in the courts. Bonus was the Midnight Oil ❤️
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Over 1 billion acres of the Alaska Outer Continental Shelf has been made available for oil exploration and drilling- cutting largely impacting the over 120,000 Alaskans that rely on harvesting those waters for the majority of their food stuffs. And this is not taking into account all the wildlife killed or adversely affected by these same activities. They simply do not care.
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