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gjaehnig@mininggazette.com ONTONAGON COUNTY The Ontonagon County Republican Party (OCRP) on April 6, 2021, adopted a resolution urging Gov. Gretchen Whitmer to allow the existing Enbridge Line 5 pipeline to remain open. The resolution also asks the governor to take no further action to prevent or delay the construction and operation of Enbridge Energy’s new segment of Line 5. The OCRP resolution states that Line 5 pipeline provides 50-65 percent of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula propane demands, as well as 55 percent of Michigan’s statewide demands. Whitmer ordered Enbridge to shut down the pipeline by May 12, 2021. The Enbridge Line 5 pipeline is a major oil pipeline in the Enbridge Lakehead System, which runs between two major nodes of the Enbridge Pipeline System at Superior, Wisconsin, and Sarnia, Ontario. The Enbridge terminal at Superior conveys western Canadian crude oil from various incoming pipelines (including lines 1-4) to Line 5 and Line 6, which go around the no

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