Biden’s Pipeline Dilemma: How to Build a Clean Energy Future While Shoring Up the Present’s Carbon-Intensive Infrastructure
After Colonial’s cyber-attack and shutdown, he can’t ignore pipelines’ problems, but environmental groups want more aggressive action.
May 14, 2021
A sign is seen at Colonial Pipeline Baltimore Delivery in Baltimore, Maryland on May 10, 2021. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images
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Even as President Joe Biden worked this week to shore up support for his push to invest $2 trillion in a new energy future for the United States, his administration found itself bombarded with the harsh realities of the nation’s oil-dependent present.
As institutional investors contemplate adding more capital to energy infrastructure, they are seeing rising political risks in the U.S. As gas shortages impact the East Coast over the Colonial Pipeline quagmire, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer maintains her stance on threatening Canada-based Enbridge, Inc. In Whitmer’s letter to Vern Yu, Enbridge’s executive vice president for liquids […]
Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline opponents protest ‘ticking time bomb’ in Michigan Great Lakes
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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.
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Climate and Indigenous protesters across 4 continents pressure banks to #DefundLine3 In solidarity with Indigenous leaders, we are calling for fossil fuel divestment to protect the water and climate, and the health and survival of Indigenous communities.
From fake oil spills in Washington, D.C. and New York City to a
“people mural” in Seattle spelling out “Defund Line 3,” climate and
Indigenous protesters in 50 U.S. cities and across seven other countries spanning four continents took to the streets on Friday for a day of
action pushing 20 banks to ditch the controversial tar sands pipeline.
“Against the backdrop of rising climate chaos, the continued