From Michigan Advance:
Fourteen years after Enbridge’s Line 6B pipeline ruptured, spilling up to a million gallons of tar-sands crude oil into a Kalamazoo River tributary, environmental advocates continue to speak out against Enbridge’s pipelines, calling for a shutdown of the company’s controversial Line 5.
At six gatherings on Thursday in Michigan, Wisconsin and Canada, members of the Oil & Water Don’t Mix Coalition, Sierra Club and Sierra Club Canada, Le Vivant se Défend, Water Watchers, Cross Border Organizing Working Group and Stop Line 9 Toronto launched North American Oil Spill Day to draw attention to ongoing concerns of environmental contamination in the Great Lakes.
Activists have long pointed to Enbridge’s Line 5 as a threat to environmental health and Indigenous sovereignty. The pipeline stretches from Northern Wisconsin, through the Straits of Mackinac into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, through the Straits of Mackinac through the Lower Peninsula and into Sarnia, Ontario.
The pipeline transports about 23 million gallons of crude oil and liquid natural gas daily, with opponents saying a rupture of the pipeline would be catastrophic.