oil pipelines

It would be a great relief to be independent of worry about oil spills that could contaminate the Great Lakes. But those worries exist among environmentalists and many in our Great Lakes state. Enbridge Energy is moving forward with plans to build a tunnel around its Line 5 pipeline that runs through the Straits of Mackinac. The new director of the University of Michigan Water Center is Dr. Mike Shriberg. He joined WEMU's David Fair and Michigan League of Conservation Voters executive director, Lisa Wozniak, to discuss the implications.

The U.S. Supreme Court is taking up a case concerning a lawsuit over the Line 5 oil pipeline that runs through the Straits of Mackinac. Colin Jackson has more.

A group of environmental groups and tribal nations want the Michigan Supreme Court to reverse permission for construction of a controversial oil and gas pipeline tunnel to go forward. They filed the appeal Thursday. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The Michigan Court of Appeals has upheld a permit for Enbridge Energy’s plan to bury an oil pipeline beneath the environmentally sensitive Straits of Mackinac. We have more from Rick Pluta.

An Ingham County judge is expected to decide soon whether the state can order Enbridge to shut down a portion of an energy pipeline on a sensitive part of the Great Lakes. We have more from Rick Pluta.

A legal battle over the future of Enbridge Energy’s Line Five gas and oil pipeline will continue in a state of Michigan court. That’s after Enbridge lost a federal court ruling today. We have more from Rick Pluta.

The National Transportation Safety Board blames human error and equipment failures for an anchor strike that dented the Line Five pipelines. Attorney…

“The Green Room” series on pipelines continues. In the previous three segments we discovered the web of underground infrastructure is more complex and…

As the recent disaster in Massachusetts shows, pipeline problems can cause fatal explosions. But in Michigan, it’s the impact pipelines might have to our…

A new bill by state lawmakers would prohibit any anchor dropping in the Straits of Mackinac. This comes after an anchor damaged an oil and gas pipeline.In…