Case Updates: February 2023: MPSC Learns Proposed Tunnel Project Creates Explosion Risks Enbridge is now trespassing as it continues to operate Line 5 in violation of the termination notice. Meanwhile, Enbridge is ignoring that Governor Whitmer terminated the easement that permits the dual pipeline to cross the Straits of Mackinac. In 2021, Enbridge seeks to build a tunnel to house a new segment of the Line 5 oil pipeline to continue transporting non-consumer oil and gas products from one part of Canada to another with little financial benefit to local residents. In the 1950s, without tribal consultation nor seeking public input, the State of Michigan granted Enbridge a lease and permission to build the original Line 5 dual pipeline in spite of the risk of oil spills in the Great Lakes.
Commercial and subsistence fishing and hunting continue to provide economic survival for the majority of tribal members. From time immemorial to today, communities, local businesses, and tribal members depend on the abundant fish and wildlife in the Straits of Mackinac.
#Lifeway keep it shut full
The area remains integral to daily practice of cultural lifeways and is full of historic and archaeological sites. They consider the waters where Lake Huron and Lake Eerie meet a sacred space. The Anishinaabe people of Bay Mills say life as we know it today, began in the Straights of Mackinac. Enbridge was responsible for the largest inland oil spill in 2010 in Michigan’s Kalamazoo River, which resulted in nearly 1 million gallons of oil being released into Michigan’s waterways. Line 5 has already leaked at least 33 times and discharged and discharged more than 1.1 million gallons of oil. The proposed tunnel would encapsulate oil giant Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac, purportedly to prevent another oil spill.Įnbridge continues to operate the Line 5 pipeline in defiance of a state order to cease operations and without a valid lease to submerged lands for the project. The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) and Earthjustice have teamed up with the Bay Mills Indian Community to fight a proposed oil pipeline tunnel, which would impact communities, local businesses, and the environment.
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