Oil Pipeline Impacts – Page 2 – Michigan Citizens for Water Conservation

January 2011 Newsletter

An educational piece reveals bottled water contains dangerous contaminants exceeding health limits, requires seventeen million barrels of oil yearly for production, and creates massive waste with eighty-six percent ending in landfills.

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Oil & Water Don’t Mix Responds to Michigan Public Service Commission Decision on Line 5 Permit

MICHIGAN –– The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) announced today that they are approving siting for Enbridge’s Line 5 Great Lakes expansion project, the largest underwater hazardous liquids tunnel ever proposed, in the worst spot in the Great Lakes for an oil spill.

End of Year Summary Report 2023

MCWC has managed to survive the Covid-19 Pandemic. However, we have found ourselves in a much different climate as a non-profit, all volunteer organization than we experienced before 2019. We are not unique in this respect. The Pandemic affected us all, and has been accompanied...

Line 5: Where do we go from here?

For the past decade, Michigan residents have been standing together, pushing for the shutdown of Enbridge Energy’s nearly 70-year-old Line 5 pipeline. After years of inaction from the Snyder administration, Governor Whitmer and AG Nessel have done everything they can to shut down Line 5...