click to enlarge Lee DeVitoActivists held a demonstration Wednesday to demand Canada backs Michigan's efforts to close the Line 5 pipeline in the Great Lakes. Water activists are calling on Canadian officials to back Michigan's efforts to close the Line 5 dual pipelines , which have spilled more than a million gallons of oil into the Straits of Mackinac and surrounding waters.Gov. "Achieving this goal is what Canada agreed to when it ratified the Paris climate accord ," Simmons pointed out. "Allowing Line 5 to continue to operate, or to be replaced by a new oil tunnel, as Enbridge is proposing, is not consistent with that climate goal. Canadian officials have lobbied the U.S. to keep Line 5 open, but the Oil and Water Don't Mix Coalition urged them to instead focus on a national energy policy to protect the Great Lakes.

Source: MetroXpress September 03, 2021 12:33 UTC