Happy Monday! Welcome back to another week of ESC News Blog! We hope you had an enjoyable weekend! Let’s get started!
You know we love an update to
previous blogs, and we have been keeping tabs on Enbridge’s Line 5 for long
while, and recently they had a setback in Michigan, nonetheless this important
pipeline is in the news again. Enbridge received some good news on their
pipeline which wasn’t a surprise ever since USACE sped up the review process
when the current administration came into power (See our Blog in April 2025 for
details).
Did anyone see the Associated
Press’s AP Afternoon Wire Newsletter on August 13, 2026, their article
titled, “Feds issue Line 5 tunnel permit, call it ‘not contrary to the public
interest”? In the article, it speaks on
how last week the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) gave the green light
for construction of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline.
In USACE’s review they found the pipeline was “not contrary to the
public interest” nonetheless they noted the route of the pipeline would have harmful
impacts on wildlife and historic locations and would have environmental impacts.
Now with USACE’s permit, the pipeline
isn’t moving forward with construction anytime soon with the project on the
state level being remanded back to the Michigan’s Public Service Commission for
further review (see our Blog in early August for details). We will try and keep you informed on anything
else we hear on this important pipeline.
If you would like to read more of the article from the Associated
Press, please click the link: Feds issue Line 5 tunnel permit | AP News.
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