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.
TORONTO Toronto uses so much salt on its roads that some city creeks are becoming saltier than the ocean, year round a surprising conclusion in a new study that is among the reasons city council is debating ways to cut down on salt. Coating city roads in at least 130,000 tonnes of rock salt costs the city upwards of $11 million a year, but the true costs could be much higher than that when damage to shoes, bikes, cars and the environment is factored in, says Councillor Mike Layton. “This is a toxic substance,” Layton said in an interview. “I would hazard to guess we are being quite wasteful and haphazard in our application of salt.”
After over a year of distance learning and more than seven months into the current school year, La Jolla’s five public schools in the San Diego Unified School District welcomed most of their students back to campus April 12 as the district reopened from closures triggered by COVID-19.
In La Jolla, 2,237 students chose to return to campuses in the hybrid model, Merino said at the April 15 meeting of the La Jolla Cluster Association, which is composed of parent and staff representatives from each cluster school.
The district’s hybrid system offers students two or four days a week of in-person learning, depending on the school.
Virginia program provides free tuition for community college students
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HAMPTON ROADS, Va.â Marcus Moody found a passion for welding and a new career path when he needed it most.
âI previously worked in the banking industry, but during the recession I lost my job, so I had to find another job,â Moody said.
He graduated from Tidewater Community College with a certificate in welding and has worked in machine shops and for private contractors. He even came back to his alma mater as a part-time instructor.
âOnce you learn it [a skill or trade], no one can take it from you and you can use it throughout the rest of your life,â he said.
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