LANSING, Mich. (via WLNS & WOOD TV 8) — A bill has been introduced in the Michigan Senate that would shut down oil pipelines that run under the Straits of Mackinac.
State Sen. Rick Jones is targeting Line 5, a 64-year-old Enbridge pipeline that carries crude oil from Alberta, Canada to the Canadian Sarnia refinery in Ontario.
Jones told WLNS, WOOD TV8’s sister station in Lansing, that he was obligated to introduce the legislation.
“This is about fulfilling my constitutional duty as a senator to protect our greatest natural resource, the Great Lakes,” the Republican from Grand Ledge said. “Roughly 40 million people drink water from the Great Lakes every day and the lakes support thousands of Michigan jobs and families. It is simply too much to risk so that Canada can have a shortcut for their oil.”
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