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The Michigan Public Service Commission will consider the environmental impact of greenhouse gasses in its decision on the future of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5. That’s part of an order issued Wednesday.
The Public Service Commission decision is one of several administrative and legal challenges faced by Enbridge. The company wants approval for a plan to bury a replacement section of the pipeline inside a tunnel, and continue to use it to convey petroleum products beneath the Great Lakes.
Commission Chair Dan Scripps said the analysis has to look not just at the integrity of the line, but what’s flowing through it.
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The Michigan Public Service Commission will consider the environmental impact of greenhouse gasses in its decision on the future of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 as part of an order issued Wednesday.
The Public Service Commission decision is one of several administrative and legal challenges faced by Enbridge. The company wants approval for a plan to bury a section of the pipeline inside a tunnel, and continue to use it to convey petroleum products beneath the Great Lakes.
Commission Chair Dan Scripps said the analysis has to look not just at the integrity of the line, but what’s flowing through it.
Michigan Readying Propane Trains, Storage to Fill Supply Gap Pending Line 5 Shut Down
Michigan officials said they would have propane supply security with trains and storage available if Enbridge Inc. shuts down deliveries in May on Line 5, the Canadian oil and natural gas liquids (NGL) system.
Line 5 flows 540,000 b/d, including 75,000 b/d of propane for about 55% of Michigan needs, led by two-thirds of requirements in northern parts of the state. The line also delivers NGLs to Ontario and Quebec.
About half of the fuel supply at the Detroit airport is refined from oil delivered by the 68-year-old pipeline. Canada’s biggest airport in Toronto also relies on the endangered pipeline for all of its fuel.
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Former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, President Joe Biden’s nominee for secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy.
By Eric Freedman
A former top-ranking Michigan official is now overseeing national energy policy again.
This time it’s the Biden administration’s new Secretary of Energy, former Democratic Gov. Jennifer Granholm.
The last time it was former Republican U.S. Sen. Spencer Abraham, President George W. Bush’s Energy secretary from 2001-05.
“Jennifer Granholm and I have been in touch. We had a good discussion about the Department of Energy,” said Abraham, who has a Washington consulting firm that deals with energy issues and is an adviser to a D.C. law firm’s government affairs unit.