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      Activists gather around a sign reading, "Line 5: people or pipeline? Which side are you on?"

      'Disastrous': Michigan Regulators Approve Enbridge Line 5 Expansion

      "Today's decision is another notch in a long history of ignoring the rights of tribal nations," said one Indigenous leader.

      Julia Conley
      Dec 01, 2023

      Days after climate advocates applauded Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's signing of a package of clean energy bills that one campaigner said would "translate into better air, water, and health for everyone," state regulators took several steps back from a sustainable future as they approved a key permit for Enbridge's Line 5 expansion project beneath the Great Lakes.

      In a 2-0 vote with one member abstaining, the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) approved siting for the project, granting Canadian oil firm Enbridge permission to build a concrete tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac—which connect Lake Michigan and Lake Huron—to house a four-mile section of its 645-mile petroleum pipeline.

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      Hikers walk between trees and ferns in Siuslaw National Forest.

      Don’t Offer Up Our National Forests for Industrial Carbon Waste Dumping

      The Forest Service now seems to think that it can throw away decades of policy preventing “forever” permits that privatize forests for corporate use.

      Jim Furnish
      Oct 23, 2023

      In my 34-year career at the U.S. Forest Service, the agency worked to support American industry while also maintaining public lands and the renewable resources they foster. That’s why I am shocked to learn that the agency plans to make a fundamental change to how it manages our public lands: allowing private parties to permanently dump industrial pollution in national forests.

      While I was serving as Siuslaw National Forest Supervisor in Oregon, and deputy chief for all U.S. national forests, the agency updated its Special Use permit rules in 1998. At that time, the agency was adamant that no industry—no matter how useful to society—had the right to permanently use or occupy national forest lands. The agency was clear that it opposed “an exclusive and perpetual use of Federal land.” To do otherwise would undermine longstanding policy meant to protect national forest ecosystems and recreational uses.

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      Campaigners gather to protest a carbon capture pipeline

      Climate Campaigners Celebrate Cancellation of Multistate Carbon Capture Pipeline

      "Cause of death: citizen activism informed by science."

      Julia Conley
      Oct 20, 2023

      Climate action advocates and scientists joined residents of five Midwestern states in applauding Friday after a Nebraska firm canceled plans to build a carbon pipeline, following outcry from the public and opponents of "dangerous, wasteful" carbon capture schemes.

      Navigator CO2 Ventures said it was abandoning plans to build the $3.5 billion, 1,300-mile Heartland Greenway pipeline project—whose backers included investment firm BlackRock and Valero Energy—after South Dakota regulators denied a permit.

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