Little Oversight for Enbridge Pipeline Route that Skirts Lake Michigan

Inside Climate News: In the northwestern corner of Indiana a major pipeline project is planned that will carry vast quantities of heavy Canadian crude oil across four rivers that flow into Lake Michigan, where 10 million people get their drinking water. The pipeline will cross one river just 11 miles from the lake. It crosses the other three rivers less than 20 miles from the lake. Because the pipeline runs so close to Lake Michigan—and because it is being built by a company with a history of pipeline spills in the...

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