Judge Janet Neff of the US District Court for Western Michigan turned down Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s request to move the case to state court. In her ruling, she said that “important federal interests at stake” were in keeping the case in federal court.
Michigan has tried to shut down the line by going to court in its state. This rightly keeps the Michigan Attorney General’s lawsuit in federal court and shows that the state’s attempts to shut down this important energy infrastructure raise important national questions about interstate commerce, federal jurisdiction over pipeline safety, and the severe effects on energy security and foreign affairs, according to Enbridge Inc. (TSE: ENB) spokesman Ryan Duffy.
Whitmer has told Enbridge Inc. (TSE: ENB) to shut down Line 5, saying that it is terrible for the environment where it goes through the Straits of Mackinac, which is where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet. Enbridge Inc. (TSE: ENB) has refused to do what the governor wants, saying she is overstepping her authority and that federal law applies.
When asked for a comment, the governor’s office did not respond right away.
Enbridge Inc. (TSE: ENB) wants to make the line safer by building a tunnel under the waterway. The Canadian government recently sided with Enbridge Inc. (TSE: ENB) in its fight to keep the line running. To defend the line’s operation, it used a treaty from the 1970s and brought the dispute to an international level.
Line 5 brings propane to homes in Michigan and light crude to refineries in the Midwest US and Ontario.
About Enbridge Inc. (TSE: ENB)
Enbridge Inc. (TSE: ENB) is a pipeline company with offices all over the world and the main office in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It owns and runs pipelines that move crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids all over Canada and the United States. The pipeline system owned by Enbridge Inc. (TSE: ENB) is the longest in all of North America. It has 27,500 kilometers of pipelines that carry crude oil. It has a natural gas pipeline system that stretches for 38,300 kilometers and connects several Canadian provinces, several US states, and the Gulf of Mexico. It has grown over time by buying up other pipeline companies and making their projects bigger. Between 2012 and 2021, more than 32 billion barrels of crude oil were moved by Enbridge Inc. (TSE: ENB). In the past few years, Enbridge Inc. (TSE: ENB) has built several projects that use renewable energy in North America and Europe. They have also proposed a goal of having net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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