MACKINAC ISLAND, MI (MPRN)-- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel says she’s ready to go to court to force Enbridge to shut down a pipeline that moves oil and gas on a route that runs through the Great Lakes. That’s if the energy company and the state don’t reach a deal by the end of June.
Enbidge’s Line 5 runs through the Straits of Mackinac. The waterway connects Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and runs beneath the Mackinac Bridge. The bridge is a landmark visible from Mackinac Island, and that’s where the attorney general made her plans known at a business conference.
Nessel says the dangers to the Great Lakes are too big to wait much longer.
“There are a number of legal avenues that we can pursue, and we are ready to go down any one of those legal avenues.”
An Enbridge spokesman says the company’s ready to invest $500 million on a tunnel to house the pipeline and protect it from damage if the state will give its OK.