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Whitmer Orders Canadian Pipeline To Shut Down Amid Gas Shortage
Quote:Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D-MI) has ordered a Canadian energy company to shut down an oil and gas pipeline that runs through the Straits of Mackinac, claiming the pipeline is a “ticking timebomb” even though the company says the line has never leaked into the straits.

The Guardian reported that Whitmer told the Canadian company, Enbridge, to shut down the pipeline known as Line 5 by Wednesday due to activist fears that it could spill any day. The pipeline has operated for nearly 67 years and, according to Enbridge, the portion of the pipeline that runs through the straights has never leaked. A different Enbridge pipeline spilled 845,000 gallons of oil into Michigan’s Kalamazoo River back in 2010.

Further, Enbridge has been “working to tunnel beneath the lake bed to further improve the safety of the pipeline,” the Guardian reported, because the pipeline has been hit in the past two years by boat anchors and cables.

“These oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac are a ticking timebomb, and their continued presence violates the public trust and poses a grave threat to Michigan’s environment and economy,” Whitmer’s office said in a statement regarding the pipeline.

The Guardian reported that Whitmer campaigned on shutting down this pipeline and is now pushing for its closure even as the U.S. Department of Transportation issued an emergency declaration for 17 states and the District of Columbia following a cyberattack on the country’s largest pipeline.

As The Daily Wire’s Hank Berrien reported, the “declaration permitted fuel to be transported by road to Alabama, Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia.”

An expert told Politico that the ransomware attack that caused the Colonial Pipeline to shut down was “the most significant and successful attack on energy infrastructure we know of in the United States.” The attack “most immediately affected some of the company’s business-side computer systems — not the systems that directly run the pipelines themselves,” Politico reported, yet Colonial shut down the pipelines as a precaution while a third-party cybersecurity firm investigates.

In addition to the Department of Transportation’s declarations, four states – Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, and Virginia – have issued emergency declarations over gas shortages, The Daily Wire’s Amanda Prestigiacomo reported. In addition, more than 1,000 gas stations ran out of fuel on Tuesday, The Daily Wire’s Ryan Saavedra reported.

“On social media, multiple videos went viral of people showing that their gas stations were out of fuel in states including Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and others. Some analysts said that panic buying could be playing a role in gas stations running out of fuel,” Saavedra wrote. “Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm warned that gas stations in the impacted regions of the country will likely continue to experience a ‘supply crunch’ even after the pipelines are fully operational again.”

Meanwhile, Homeland Security Advisor and Deputy National Security Advisor Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall insisted there was “not a supply shortage.”

This article has been revised for clarity and corrected to note the segment of Pipeline 5 that Enbridge says has never leaked.

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Just in case you think Democrats are trying to fix any of this - nope. They want more. They are celebrating.
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I hope all the board commies have bicycles. We do.
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Fat Gretch saving more lives!
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Whitmer Orders Canadian Pipeline To Shut Down Amid Gas Shortage
The next crisis by design. First sloe* shuts down Keystone, opens the border wiiiiiiide open, claims of more ROOOSKIES!!! meddling in our clearly unprotected infrastructure to create panic buying and a gas shortage and now the Big Wretch doing the Russians bidding by executive fiat.

For why?




Y’all starting to figure this out yet?





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The 'concern' about this pipeline under the straights has been ongoing for at least 5 years if not more. What is interesting to me is the timing of this.
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Quote:When questioned on whether President Joe Biden has been in contact with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the potential closing of Line 5 in Michigan, Press Secretary Jen Psaki replied "it's in the courts."

"Thats in the courts," she said, "so were not going to have anything to add. It's in a courts process right now."

On Tuesday, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer risked a breach of trust between the US and Canada by demanding that Line 5, the pipeline that provides nearly half the oil needs of Ontario and Quebec, must shut down by May 12. She cited environmental concerns.

"Is this a way to treat an ally?" A reporter asked.

"We've talked about in here how important of a partner Canada is," Psaki said, "and will continue to be on a range of issues from addressing the pandemic to just being a regional partner on facing issues around the globe, but this again is a situation thats in the courts so I'm not going to have more comments on it."



Whitmer announced a hard deadline of May 12 for the Enbridge run Line 5 to be shut down, citing potential problems with the 65 year old pipeline's potential to cause environmental damage if it ruptured.

"These oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac are a ticking timebomb, and their continued presence violates the public trust and poses a grave threat to Michigan’s environment and economy," Whitmer's office said in a statement.

The United States is obliged to give a 10-year notice to Canada of closure of the pipeline, which brings 540,000 barrels-per-day of oil into Canada.

"This case raises concerns regarding the efficacy of the historic framework upon which the U.S.-Canada relationship has been successfully managed for generations," the Trudeau government said in a brief, adding that "Michigan's move "threatens to undermine important aspects of that cooperative international relationship."

Minister of Natural Resources of Canada Seamus O'Regan Jr told CTV that a contingency plan would be "messy" and would "take months to put into place." He added that the alternative to the pipeline would involve trucks, boats, railway cars, and would be "messy, it will be polluting, and it will be expensive."



O'Regan Jr. wrote in a statement responding to the Canadian Government's filing of an amicus brief that "Under the federal court's order, Enbridge and Michigan have entered into a mediation process and are meeting regularly."



"We remain confident this will lead to a solution. In filing this amicus brief, we worked with the governments of Alberta, Saskatchewan, Ontario and Quebec," O'Regan added. "We are continuing to work together to defend Line 5, leaving no stone unturned in defending Canada's energy security and the workers who built this country."

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Democrats think you can ship oil over the internet.
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Whitmer Orders Canadian Pipeline To Shut Down Amid Gas Shortage
Learn to build those big asss mirrors, Canucks. That should keep you all warm and toasty.

Just have to hope those rapacious precious metals batteries hold up in the tundra.


Y’all done getting played yet?






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