From Detroit Free Press:
MICHIGAN – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Detroit District, heeding an emergency order from President Donald Trump to expedite the review process for energy supply projects, will accelerate its permitting process for a proposed tunnel for an oil and gas pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac lake bottom.
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Whitmer and Michigan’s environmental regulatory agency, the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy, must act to protect the state by denying the tunnel project a needed state clean water permit, said Sean McBrearty, campaign coordinator for Oil & Water Don’t Mix, a nonprofit coalition opposed to the Line 5 pipeline.
“We need full permitting for the Line 5 tunnel project, which means thoroughly vetting its environmental, economic, and social impacts,” he said. “Anything short of that would be giving Enbridge — a corporation with a dangerous track record operating in Michigan — a blank check for a project that has no business getting built.”