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,…
Tag: Enbridge Energy
“Oil is Not Energy,” by Jeffrey Insko (share from substack)
Please take a moment to follow the link and read Jeffrey’s essay. Clean water matters. From Bill Latka of Oil & Water Don’t Mix: This is exactly the kind of sharp analysis we need to cut through corporate messaging that puts our Great Lakes at risk. I’m genuinely grateful to Jeff for his clear, revealing…
POPO 2025 — Day 15 — Petroleum Way (re: Oil & Water Don’t Mix)
Petroleum Way (re: Oil & Water Don’t Mix) My elected rep just sent a proud email stating he’s introduced legislation that, if passed, would make it impossible to shut down Canada’s Enbridge Line 5, the decrepit oil pipeline that runs under the Straits of Mackinac. Building a tunnel around it won’t matter. It threatens fresh…
Problems with Enbridge Line 5
Please please please watch this and share it everywhere you can. Write your elected representatives. Learn more here.
Oil & Water Don’t Mix — Help Stop Enbridge from building a pipeline under the Great Lakes
I’ve had this blog since 2017 and have been blogging regularly since 2018. Those who read the blog know I don’t do product promotions or ask for readers to donate as a practice. But please, read about this advocacy group and about Indigenous Water Protectors in this newsletter I just received and if nothing else,…
“It’s Your Water, Too” — On “Bad River: A Story of Defiance” by Jennifer Patino
Remember my post on the documentary about the battle against Enbridge? Jennifer Patino and her husband went to see it recently, and Jennifer wrote a review of the film and an essay about her context in the midst of a very important battle. Thank you, Jennifer, for allowing me to re-blog your post. JUST…
excerpt from Bridge Michigan, “Michigan’s nonpartisan, nonprofit news source, May 11, 2021: “On eve of Line 5 shutdown deadline, Enbridge vows to defy Michigan order”
Demonstrators gather in Mackinaw City for a protest against the Line 5 pipeline, which crosses the Straits of Mackinac between St. Ignace and Mackinaw City. (Photo courtesy of Whitney Gravelle) Enbridge Energy technically has one more day to shut down the Line 5 pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac, but even the pipeline’s most vocal…
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