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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
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Kent McNeil is professor emeritus at Osgoode Hall Law School. Brooks Arcand-Paul is vice-president of the Indigenous Bar Association.
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Mr Adolph Awuku Bekoe, a Clinical Psychologist has advised women to think twice about staying in abusive relationships before it explodes to cost them their lives.
This, he said, sometimes, is a result of excuses like inability to solely cater for children or survive independently.
He said women were physically abused consistently and later appeased by their male partners just to forget about the harm done them.
“When a woman is constantly beaten and she takes a vacation, the man realises he has lost a house help or a slave, who was giving him sex, cooking and washing for him, keeping the house and taking care of his children. So he tries to appease her with a present or a good vacation treat just to make her forgive him.