Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline opponents protest ‘ticking time bomb’ in Michigan Great Lakes
Updated 4:43 PM;
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The crude oil still pumps and protests are growing.
For two days since after midnight on May 12, Calgary, Canada-based Enbridge has continued to defy Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s orders to stop pumping oil through its 68-year-old Line 5 that dips through the the Great Lakes exposed on the bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac.
Supporters, including Republican politicians, the Canadian government and other U.S. states claim the economic value supported by the transport of 540,000 barrels or 23 million gallons of oil per day is too great to lose.