The currents are swirling about us - will we listen to them before it's too late?
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Where Does Enbridge Go from Here?
Friends, this is a stunning turn of events.
I’m sure you’ve heard the news by now, so ably explained and contextualized this week here at The Current by David Holtz: the Michigan Supreme Court last Friday issued a stern rebuke to the Michi...
Michigan Went the Other Way
The Michigan Supreme Court opened its Line 5 tunnel opinion Friday not with a statute, not with procedural history, but with water:
“The Great Lakes are the largest freshwater system on Earth... As the many Indian Tribes involved in this l...
Why Did the Kalamazoo River Oil Spill Happen?
Note: Before The Current, there was the Line 6B Citizens’ Blog, a site dedicated to tracking Enbridge’s misdeeds following the devastating 2010 oil spill into the Kalamazoo River. Today, on the sixteenth anniversary of the spill, we bring y...
One More Thing About That EGLE Permit
Oil transported safely is bad for the Great Lakes.1
Oil transported safely is bad for the Great Lakes.2
Oil transported safely is bad for the Great Lakes.3
Oil transported safely is bad for the Great Lakes.4
Oil transported safely is ba...
Welcome to 1953
On October 5, 1953, while Enbridge’s contractors worked to construct and install the Line 5 pipeline, Life Magazine—at the time among the most widely circulated publications in the U.S.—published a gruesome photo of Dumont Creek, a small tr...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
We're working with the community to protect the Great Lakes and climate from America's most dangerous crude oil pipeline.
Currently walking steady in a fast moving world. Retired like a dog, looking for life's treats, a sunny place to land and something to chew on. Sinking my teeth into environmental activism, politics and writing.
Author& Professor of English, Oakland University, writing about Line 5, oil, infrastructure, environment
Beth is National Wildlife Federation’s Great Lakes climate and energy director, she serves as board chair for the Pipeline Safety Trust and provides organizing leadership at the Great Lakes Business Network.
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