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MICHIGAN Governor Gretchen Whitmer has accused a Canadian company of defying the US state’s right to protect its environment following a lawsuit over the closure of an oil pipeline.
Enbridge has issued a legal challenge to an order in which Ms Whitmer instructed it to halt the flow of oil through its Line 5 pipeline along the Straits of Mackinac, a narrow channel linking two of the Great Lakes, Michigan and Huron.
The governor says the underwater pipes are unsound and could leak, adding that the original “easement” by which the company was allowed to run them underwater violated the state’s duty to protect its waters. Her spokeswoman Tiffany Brown said Enbridge was defying “the people of Michigan and their right to protect the Great Lakes from a catastrophic oil spill.”
Trump threatens war and punitive tariffs to recapture Iranian resources – just as in 1953, when the CIA overthrew Mossadegh and US corporations immediately seized 40% of the oil, says SEVIM DAGDELEN
International solidarity can ensure that Trump and his machine cannot prevail without a level of political and economic cost that he will not want to pay, argues CLAUDIA WEBBE
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results