Bay Mills Indian Community Brings Contested Case against Line 5 Tunnel Proposal

Here.

Traverse City Record-Eagle: “Tribal leaders denounce Enbridge for ‘manipulative’ video about Indigenous peacemaking”

Here.

Also here.

Circle of Blue: “Treaty Rights Acknowledged For First Time in Oil Pipeline’s Controversial History”

Here.

The Takeaway: “Indigenous Treaties Are Helping to Secure Environmental Wins”

Here.

State of Michigan v. Enbridge Energy Complaint

Here:

Complaint

Gov. Whitmer Terminates Line 5 Easement

Detroit News

TV6

Crain’s Detroit Business

WLNS

UpNorthLive

WMMT

WSJ: “Michigan Group Says Archaeological Findings Enough to Halt Enbridge Tunnel Project”

Here.

DFP: “Group thinks it has found proof of 10,000-year-old, Ice Age culture in Straits of Mackinac”

Here.

The implications for Line 5 are enormous.

Enbridge Line 5: Michigan Public Service Commission Litigation

See below for 1) Applicant Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership’s Limited Objections to the Notice of Intervention of the Attorney General; (2) Applicant Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership’s Limited Objections to the Petitions to Intervene Filed by The Bay Mills Indian Community, The Grand Traverse Band Of Ottawa And Chippewa Indians, Little Traverse Bay Bands Of Odawa Indians, and Notttawaseppi Huron Band Of The Pottawatomi; (3) Applicant Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership’s Objections to the Petitions to Intervene Filed by The Michigan Environmental Council, Tip Of The Mitt Watershed Council, The National Wildlife Federation, For Love Of Water, The Environmental Law & Policy Center, And Michigan Climate Action Network and Certificate of Service.

A pre-hearing was scheduled Wednesday August 12, 2020 at 1:00PM. Petitions to intervene from Bay Mills Indian Community, Grand Traverse Band, Little Traverse Bay Bands, and Nottawaseppi Huron Band below. In addition, the Attorney General is now intervening in the proceedings and Enbridge has asked for a rehearing which is also below.

Other Line 5 posts here.

Bryan Newland: “Enbridge Line 5 is Michigan’s next ecological disaster”

In the Detroit Free Press, here.