If you live anywhere along the route of Enbridge’s Line 5 crude oil and natural gas liquids (NGLs) pipeline, which travels 547 miles across the Upper Peninsula, the Straits of Mackinac, and down through Lower Michigan, you should be asking state and local government officials and emergency responders a lot of questions. You should know… line-5-michigan/" title="ReadLiving Along Enbridge Line 5 in Michigan”>Read more »
STATEMENT FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 3, 2018 Jim Olson, President, Legal Advisor Email: Jim@FLOWforWater.org FLOW (For Love of Water), Traverse City, MI … line-5-oil-tunnel-increases-risk-great-lakes-oil-spill/" title="ReadFor Immediate Release: Gov. Snyder’s “Line 5” Oil Tunnel Increases Risk of Great Lakes Oil Spill”>Read more »
Michigan Senator Gary Peters, ranking member of a Senate committee overseeing hazardous pipelines, held a public hearing in Traverse City, Michigan Monday, ground zero in a race to turn off Enbridge’s 65-year old Line 5 before it spills millions of gallons into the Straits of Mackinac and blackens the water, life, and economy of the… line-5-great-lakes/" title="ReadU.S. Senate Hearing Sets the Stage for Turning Off Dangerous Enbridge Line 5 in Great Lakes”>Read more »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE August 21, 2018 Even the significantly understated economic impacts of a spill from Line 5 at the Straits of Mackinac in a state-commissioned analysis reveal a fiscal and human price tag too high for the people of Michigan, FLOW (For Love of Water) said in comments submitted to Lansing officials before Sunday’s… line-5-risk-analysis-underlines-urgency-shutdown-flow-says/" title="ReadState-Commissioned Line 5 Risk Analysis Underlines Urgency of Shutdown, FLOW Says”>Read more »
Over three years ago, on July 15, 2015, the State of Michigan’s Petroleum Pipeline Task Force released its recommendations for the state to conduct an independent risk analysis and independent alternatives analysis on the Line 5 pipelines located in the open waters of the Great Lakes. The Governor’s Advisory Board, created by executive order, promised… line-5s-real-risks-waters-way-life/" title="ReadFinally, An Honest Conversation About Line 5’s Real Risks to Our Waters and Our Way of Life”>Read more »
In an end-run around the public participation process they established, Governor Rick Snyder and Enbridge, Inc., the owner and operator of Line 5, are exploring the possibility of building a $500 million tunnel to replace the stretch of 65 year-old Line 5 pipeline that runs under the Straits of Mackinac. While a tunnel, properly designed… line-5-big-mistake/" title="ReadA Tunnel for Line 5? – That Would be a Big Mistake”>Read more »
Enbridge’s latest in a long series of requests for government approval of a change in design that elevates a large portion of Line 5 pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac must trigger a full environmental review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a Great Lakes law and policy center said today in formal comments… line-5/" title="ReadFLOW Says Army Corps Must Conduct Full Environmental Review of Line 5“>Read more »
TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Michigan is moving closer to a Great Lakes oil spill disaster and farther from a real alternative to the decaying oil pipelines in the Mackinac Straits, according to a Great Lakes law and policy center’s review released today of technical reports produced by Line 5-owner Enbridge at the direction of Gov…. line-5-pipelines-prevent-great-lakes-oil-spill-disaster/" title="ReadFLOW to Snyder and Schuette: Stop Delays, Scrap Side Deal, and Shut Down “Line 5” Pipelines to Prevent Great Lakes Oil Spill Disaster”>Read more »
By: FLOW Chair, Skip Pruss Taking Legal Action Recently, John Sellek, Attorney General Bill Schuette’s campaign spokesperson, pushed back on the charge that the Attorney General could have taken legal action to shut down the Enbridge Line 5 petroleum pipelines at the Straits of Mackinac, stating “If this claim about the easement [filing a lawsuit] was… line-5/" title="ReadAttorney General Bill Schuette has Ample Legal Authority to Pursue a Shutdown of Line 5“>Read more »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 29, 2018 Contact: Liz Kirkwood Email: Liz@FLOWforWater.org Executive Director Office: (231) 944-1568 FLOW (For Love of Water) Cell: (570) 872-4956 Latest Enbridge Reports Underscore Line 5’s Vulnerability to 400 Michigan Waterways and Ongoing Unacceptable Risk to the Straits TRAVERSE CITY, MI – Enbridge… line-5s-vulnerability-400-michigan-waterways/" title="ReadLatest Enbridge Reports Underscore Line 5’s Vulnerability to 400 Michigan Waterways”>Read more »
