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AuthorsEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingIan WendrowIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake ErieLatest NewsMichiganMinnesotaNew YorkNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeGreat Lakes Energy News Roundup: Lake Erie wind turbines worry anglers, Enbridge replacing St. Clair River pipeline, what next for Michigan and Minnesota renewables
-Catch the latest in Great Lakes energy news in Great Lakes Now’s fortnightly energy-related headline roundup.
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APEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLake SuperiorMinnesotaNewsProtectMinnesota regulators put Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline back on track
-The state Public Utilities Commission voted 3-1 to approve an updated environmental impact statement for the $2.6 billion project, finding that the new review adequately addressed the impacts of a potential spill in the Lake Superior watershed.
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APEnbridge Line 5 and Other PipelinesEnergy, Clean Energy, Ethanol and FrackingEquity and Environmental JusticeMinnesotaNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeMinnesota regulators revisit environmental review for Line 3 pipeline
-The state’s Public Utilities Commission opened a hearing Friday on an updated environmental review for Enbridge Energy’s plan to replace its aging Line 3 crude oil pipeline across the state, but most testimony focused on broader questions of whether the project should even be built.
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AdvocacyCollaborationDrinking WaterEquity and Environmental JusticeGroundwater ContaminationIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsWater Quality and Restoration Efforts‘Wiggle room,’ deleted emails, and a controversial phone call: What we learned after five days of testimony in the PolyMet hearing
-Everyone concedes the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency’s handling of a water pollution permit for the controversial PolyMet project was far from normal. The big question is whether it was improper.
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What climate change means for the future of ice fishing in Minnesota
-It’s not just glaciers that are disappearing as the planet warms.
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Former EPA official: Minnesota regulators wanted PolyMet critiques kept out of public comment to avoid ‘press’
-Kevin Pierard, who oversaw the permit at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, said state officials asked him to submit concerns after a public comment period because, among other things, the critique would “create a good deal of press.”
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APIndustry, Energy, Economic DevelopmentMinnesotaNewsPolitics, Policy, Environmental JusticeWater Quality and Restoration EffortsHearing puts Minnesota agency under scrutiny over PolyMet mine permit
-Ramsey County Chief Judge John Guthmann is opening a fact-finding hearing into allegations that the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency improperly tried to suppress serious concerns by the federal Environmental Protection Agency about the PolyMet mine’s risks to clean water.
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Minnesota court rejects major permits for PolyMet mine
-Environmentalists celebrated the decision, while PolyMet said it would consider taking the case to the Minnesota Supreme Court and the DNR said it was considering its options.
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2019 Featured PostAdvocacyGreat Lakes Now's Year-End PostsJames ProffittLake ErieLatest NewsMinnesotaNewsProtectRecreation and TourismSturgeonAn Open Letter: I have been seeing lake sturgeon and plan to keep it up in 2020
-GLN Writer James Proffitt’s relationship with the ancient fish flourished in 2019, and he plans to take it further in the next year.
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Twin Metals Minnesota files formal mine plan with regulators
-Twin Metals Minnesota’s plan for an underground copper-nickel mine in northeastern Minnesota is a project that has drawn fierce opposition because it would sit just upstream from the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
