Recent national and international news about the Enbridge Energy's Line 5 pipeline may make it seem like the pipeline might shutter any day now, with major implications for winter fuel prices.But a year since Governor Gretchen Whitmer ordered the pipeline shuttered over safety concerns, its future is no clearer today than it was then.
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Canada informed a judge that it is invoking a 1977 treaty with the United States. That step should suspend a lawsuit by Michigan to shut down the pipeline.
Credit Lester Graham / Michigan Radio
If Line 5 is still pumping petroleum through the Straits of Mackinac on Thursday, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has notified Enbridge Energy, she will consider all resulting profits to be property of the state of Michigan.
That notice, contained in a letter Whitmer and Department of Natural Resources Director Dan Eichinger wrote Tuesday to Enbridge Executive Vice President Vern Yu, offers the first glimpse into Whitmer’s planned response if the Canadian oil giant follows through with a vow to defy state orders to shut down the pipeline.
It comes as Enbridge is also taking fire from the Bay Mills Indian Community, whose executive council has voted to officially banish Line 5 from its territory a legal action that is considered a punishment of last resort in tribal law. The tribe is calling upon the federal government to enforce the banishment as part of its legal obligation to protect tribal treaty rights to hunt, fish and gather in ce
Whitmer threatens profit seizure as Enbridge Line 5 closure deadline looms
Updated May 11, 2021;
Posted May 11, 2021
A Ballard Marine Construction boat tows an Enbridge underwater sonar vehicle to the site of Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinac on Thursday, June 9, 2016. (Garret Ellison | MLive.com)
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LANSING, MI Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer says the state of Michigan will attempt to seize any profits that Enbridge makes from operating the controversial Line 5 oil pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac if the company doesn’t comply with her order to shut the line down this week.
In letter to Enbridge Vice President Vern Yu on Tuesday, May 11, Whitmer said the state will pursue trespass and unjust enrichment claims in court if Enbridge moves oil through the line in violation of her November shutdown order, which goes into effect at midnight on Wednesday.