{"id":50914,"date":"2020-02-03T08:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T13:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50914"},"modified":"2020-02-03T10:56:43","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:56:43","slug":"jason-kenneys-other-pipeline-war-is-with-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=50914","title":{"rendered":"Jason Kenney\u2019s Other Pipeline War Is with Michigan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Jason Kenney\u2019s Other Pipeline War Is with Michigan<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Locals say Enbridge\u2019s aging Line 5 is a disaster waiting to happen and Alberta\u2019s premier should butt out.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Enbridge\u2019s US underwater Line 5, built in 1953, carries mostly Alberta crude. Premier Jason Kenney has attacked Michigan\u2019s governor for moving to decommission the pipeline for safety concerns. Photo via the National Wildlife Federation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Locals urging the aging pipeline be closed down fear it could imperil drinking water for tens of millions of people. Some wonder why Kenney, who has claimed Alberta is bullied by foreign-backed environmental advocates, has no problem intervening in the decision-making of a jurisdiction beyond Canada\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe premier ought to take care of things that are directly impacting the citizens of Canada and let the people of Michigan take care of things that directly impact the citizens of Michigan,\u201d said David Holtz, a spokesperson for the environmental group Oil & Water Don\u2019t Mix, based in northern Michigan\u2019s Traverse City. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last June, Kenney notified<\/a> his 173,000 Facebook followers that Michigan\u2019s leaders are trying to decommission Enbridge\u2019s Line 5, a nearly 70-year-old pipeline traversing the state. Line 5 serves as a shortcut for moving Alberta crude oil to refineries in Sarnia, Ontario, accounting<\/a> for about 70 per cent of the oil it carries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The pipeline, which was built in 1953 and runs under the Straits of Mackinac between Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, is\u00a0losing<\/a>\u00a0its protective coating and was\u00a0damaged<\/a>\u00a0by an anchor several years ago. In August, Enbridge\u00a0revealed<\/a>\u00a0a 25-metre segment was unsupported due to erosion caused by strong currents, and said it was acting to re-anchor the section.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A worst-case-scenario spill would pollute<\/a> 643 kilometres of Michigan coastline, a state-ordered risk analysis concluded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet Kenney has said that Line 5 poses \u201cno pressing or legitimate environmental concern.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jason Kenney\u2019s Other Pipeline War Is with Michigan Locals say Enbridge\u2019s aging Line 5 is a disaster waiting to happen and Alberta\u2019s premier should butt out. Locals urging the aging pipeline be closed down fear it could imperil drinking water for tens of millions of people. Some wonder why Kenney, who has claimed Alberta is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,5],"tags":[1082,103,12878,25592,11078,590,23884,827],"class_list":["post-50914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-environment","category-geopolitics","tag-alberta","tag-canada","tag-geoff-dembicki","tag-jason-kenney","tag-michigan","tag-oil-pipeline","tag-thetyee-ca","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50914"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50916,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50914\/revisions\/50916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}