Some Michigan propane suppliers switching to rail cars in anticipation of Line 5 closure
Updated Mar 12, 2021;
Posted Mar 12, 2021
The Enbridge Mackinaw Station, where Line 5 emerges from underneath the Straits of Mackinac near Mackinaw City, on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2015.The Grand Rapids Press
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Propane suppliers reliant on Enbridge’s Line 5 are transitioning to railroad cars to get their products in anticipation of the oil pipeline shutting down in May.
Several suppliers in Michigan began exploring alternatives when Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced the end of an easement that allows the controversial 67-year-old pipeline to run beneath the Straits of Mackinac. From Superior, Wisconsin, Line 5 runs east to the Upper Peninsula then southeast to a Rapid River township refinery, near Escanaba, where natural gas liquids from Line 5 are stripped for propane.
Sally Talberg, former chair of the Michigan Public Service Commission, has resigned from the board of ERCOT, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, in the wake of a devastating collapse of the electric grid that provided power to more than 26 million customers.
Talberg, an unaffiliated…
Near-failure of Texas power grid brings shake-up at ERCOT as several members resign
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Power lines are shown along the Sam Houston Tollway near Texas 249 on February 15, 2021 in Houston.Melissa Phillip, Staff photographer / Houston Chronicle
Almost a third of the board members who lead the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, manager of the state’s power grid, will resign Wednesday, a week after a historic winter storm caused statewide blackouts, disrupted water supplies and left dozens of people dead.
Chair Sally Talberg, vice chair Peter Cramton, and board members Raymond Hepper, Terry Bulger and Vanessa Anesetti-Parra will step down at an emergency meeting, according to an ERCOT filing Tuesday with the Public Utility Commission, which oversees the grid operator.
Near-failure of Texas power grid brings shake-up at ERCOT as several members resign
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Power lines are shown along the Sam Houston Tollway near Texas 249 on February 15, 2021 in Houston.Melissa Phillip, Staff photographer / Houston Chronicle
Almost a third of the board members who lead the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, manager of the state’s power grid, will resign Wednesday, a week after a historic winter storm caused statewide blackouts, disrupted water supplies and left dozens of people dead.
Chair Sally Talberg, vice chair Peter Cramton, and board members Raymond Hepper, Terry Bulger and Vanessa Anesetti-Parra will step down at an emergency meeting, according to an ERCOT filing Tuesday with the Public Utility Commission, which oversees the grid operator.