There are, at minimum, three major red flags in Gov. Snyder’s announcement this week of a deal with Enbridge over its 64-year-old Line 5 oil and gas pipe running beneath the Straits of Mackinac. The first is that when government doesn’t want to do something about a problem (in … [Read more...]
This week’s Heller Poll results: Pipe down, Enbridge
OK, guilty as charged. I used a photo of an oil-drenched water bird (I'm not great at bird identification or I'd tell you what kind - a goose? a swan? a water chicken?) atop this week's poll, which amounted to a large, blinking arrow saying "Pick this answer!" That answer, of … [Read more...]
The Heller Poll: Should the state shut down the Mackinac Straits pipeline?
Here’s how we become the Used to be Great Lakes State
Flint and the Straits of Mackinac are 225 miles apart but one thing connects them in my mind: distrust. I have it in spades. Probably we all do. Ever since the poisoning of Flint, I can’t bring myself to trust the state to protect us from anything, great or small, short term … [Read more...]
