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MPSC Chairman Sally A. Talberg

MPSC: Proposed ‘Line 5’ Oil Tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac Must Undergo Full and Vigorous Public Review

June 4, 2024

Photo above: MPSC Chairman Sally A. Talberg, presiding over the Commission hearing today on Enbridge’s proposed oil pipeline tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac. The following statement can be attributed to Liz Kirkwood, environmental attorney and executive director of FLOW (For Love of Water), a Great Lakes law and policy center based in Traverse City:… mpsc-proposed-line-5-oil-tunnel-in-the-straits-of-mackinac-must-undergo-full-and-vigorous-public-review/" title="ReadMPSC: Proposed ‘Line 5’ Oil Tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac Must Undergo Full and Vigorous Public Review”>Read more »

FLOW Appeals MPSC Decision Approving the Line 5 Tunnel

April 15, 2024

Download FLOW Appellate Brief  (PDF) Traverse City, Mich.— On April 11, 2024, FLOW filed a brief before the Michigan Court of Appeals aimed at reversing the Michigan Public Services Commission’s (MPSC) approval of the proposed Line 5 tunnel project. Enbridge’s proposed tunnel received a green light from the MPSC on December 1, 2023. FLOW is… mpsc-decision-line-5-tunnel/" title="ReadFLOW Appeals MPSC Decision Approving the Line 5 Tunnel”>Read more »

FLOW Appeals MPSC Permit to Site Replacement Line 5 Pipeline in Proposed Great Lakes Tunnel

January 4, 2024

Media Release: January 3, 2024 Download printer-friendly PDF Traverse City, Mich.— For Love of Water (FLOW), a Great Lakes water law and policy center, filed an appeal on December 22, 2023 with the Michigan Court of Appeals to overturn the Michigan Public Service Commission’s December 1 decision to approve the application from Canadian oil company… mpsc-line-5-permit/" title="ReadFLOW Appeals MPSC Permit to Site Replacement Line 5 Pipeline in Proposed Great Lakes Tunnel”>Read more »

Disgraceful: MPSC Approves Permit for Enbridge Tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac; Breaches Legal Duty to Protect Michigan’s Natural Resources

December 1, 2023

Traverse City, Mich. — FLOW is shocked that the collective efforts of thousands of Michiganders and treaty-protected tribes to protect our waters from the catastrophic risks of Line 5 have been ignored in today’s decision by the Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) to grant authorization for a Line 5 tunnel. The Straits are no safer… mpsc-approves-tunnel-permit/" title="ReadDisgraceful: MPSC Approves Permit for Enbridge Tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac; Breaches Legal Duty to Protect Michigan’s Natural Resources”>Read more »

FLOW Urges MPSC to Deny Enbridge’s Request for a Free Pass on Siting a ‘Line 5’ Oil Tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac

May 15, 2020

Photo of the Mackinac Bridge and Straits of Mackinac by Kathryn DePauw. The Michigan Public Service Commission should reject Enbridge’s attempt to dodge the legal review process required to replace and relocate the segment of the Line 5 oil pipeline crossing the Straits of Mackinac into a $500 million proposed tunnel pipeline project, according to… mpsc-to-deny-enbridges-request-for-a-free-pass-on-siting-a-line-5-oil-tunnel-in-the-straits-of-mackinac/" title="ReadFLOW Urges MPSC to Deny Enbridge’s Request for a Free Pass on Siting a ‘Line 5’ Oil Tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac”>Read more »

Michigan revoked the Line 5 easement 5 years ago. What happens next?

November 19, 2025

Five years ago, on November 13, 2020, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and the Department of Natural Resources revoked and terminated the 1953 easement that had allowed Enbridge to locate and operate its dual Line 5 pipelines on the lakebed and in the waters of the Straits of Mackinac. As public trustee and fiducidary, the state… Read more »

Flow Water Advocates files Line 5 brief with the Michigan Supreme Court.

November 17, 2025

November 17, 2025 [ DOWNLOAD: Flow Water Advocates Brief on Appeal (PDF) ]   Traverse City, Mich. — Flow Water Advocates (“Flow”) has filed a brief in its appeal of the Michigan Public Service Commission’s decision to approve a permit for Enbridge’s proposed Line 5 pipeline tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac. Flow’s appeal will… Read more »

Michigan Supreme Court grants review of Line 5 tunnel permit

September 20, 2025

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 19, 2025 Lansing, Mich. – The Michigan Supreme Court has granted a landmark application for leave to appeal, paving the way for a review of the Michigan Public Service Commission’s (MPSC) decision to approve a permit for Enbridge’s proposed oil pipeline tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac. This order, issued on… Read more »

The Line 5 tunnel isn’t what we were told.

August 12, 2025

Line 5 – the 72-year-old dual pipelines suspended across the bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac – has been battered by anchor strikes and entangled by cables from passing ships. It is universally accepted that the exposed pipelines represent a clear and present danger to the Great Lakes and the regional economy should Line 5… Read more »

Enbridge Line 5 tunnel: What every Michigander needs to know

June 3, 2025

Canadian pipeline company Enbridge wants to bore a massive fossil fuels tunnel through the publicly held bottomlands of the Mackinac Straits.  Download this info sheet (PDF) The State of Michigan is the legal trustee of the Straits, and has the power and duty to protect them for the benefit of Michiganders and future generations. Let’s… Read more »