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As part of their ludicrous plan to build the infrastructure of the mid-20th century, last Friday Enbridge filed an application with the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) seeking approval to replace and relocate a segment of Line 5 under the Straits of...

Much of the debate over the fate of Enbridge’s Line 5 beneath the Straits of Mackinac has taken the form of speculative fiction: frightening imaginative projections of a not-so-distant future. Opponents and proponents of Line 5 alike each cast their gaze forward and...

If you’ve been paying attention to Line 5 matters in the past few weeks, you may have noticed that Enbridge has turned up the volume on its campaign to gain public support for its phantom tunnel. In addition to their own radio spots, Enbridge has enlisted some of...

Like me, many of you are probably old enough to remember watching the popular 1970s television game show "Name That Tune." Contestants would compete against one another to see who could identify a song by hearing the fewest notes. One contestant would claim she could...

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the history of Line 5, arguing that its decommissioning should be understood not just as a preventative measure against imminent disaster, but as a matter of environmental justice, of damage already inflicted. Given the stern...

Recently, Governor Whitmer, who campaigned to shut down Line 5, seemed to reverse course and expressed a willingness to consider Enbridge’s absurd scheme to build a concrete tunnel to house the Line 5 pipelines. What led to this surprising retreat from her tough...