The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will fast-track permits for building a protective tunnel around an aging Enbridge oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes.

The move comes after President Donald Trump issued an executive order in January declaring that the U.S. has become too dependent on foreign energy sources. The order mandates that federal agencies identify energy infrastructure projects for expedited emergency permitting from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency.

The corps designated the tunnel project on Line 5 as an emergency under the order late Tuesday. The corps had initially planned to make a permitting decision early next year. Corps officials were vague during a conference call with reporters Wednesday morning about how quickly the process may move forward.

  • MyTurtleSwimsUpsideDown@fedia.io
    24·
    9 days ago

    declaring that the U.S. has become too dependent on foreign energy sources.

    That is the stupidest reasoning for this. Line 5 shuttles Canadian oil, from Canada snaking its way through Wisconsin, Through Michigan’s UP, under the Great Lakes, through Michigan’s LP to refineries in Canada on the other side…

    None of that reduces US foreign energy dependence.

    • Makeitstop@lemmy.worldEnglish
      221·
      9 days ago

      Meanwhile, wind and solar are getting all the support pulled. You know, because we can’t risk bring dependent on imported wind or sunlight.

      • Rhaedas@fedia.io
        11·
        9 days ago

        Wind is created through the warming of surfaces via sunlight. All sunlight is imported. We can’t avoid sunlight, so we should just put tariffs on it. That will teach Sol.

    • Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world
      6·
      9 days ago

      Because he’s coming for Canada and it’s his plan to own it.

      This is why we hate. Never again. The USA is dead to us as a partner.