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The Metro: Every tribe in Michigan opposes this pipeline. Michigan approved it anyway 43%
By Robyn Vincent0%
7/22/2026, 8:03:33 PM
BS Summary: This article contains 23 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Biased Writer Voice, and Attempt to Sell a Product or Service, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 32.2% saturation with 130 hits. Analysis detected 861 faulty-reasoning hits from 404 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 46.8% and a BS Rank of 43% (11,720 of 20,313 articles). This article is better (less manipulative) than 57.70% of the article peer group.
Enbridge is a step closer to building a new oil tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac for its Line 5 after the state of Michigan approved permits for the project last week .
Line 5 runs 645 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, to Sarnia, Ontario, carrying crude and natural gas liquids.
Most of it transits Michigan to reach Canada.
Enbridge and the state say a concrete tunnel would get the 73-year-old pipeline out of open water, where a rupture could spill into the Straits of Mackinac.
But the permit concedes some of what is at stake .
Historic and cultural resources will likely be destroyed — the remains of tribal ancestors among them.
Enbridge has to file a plan to lessen the damage.
Environmental activists and Michigan tribal communities say that is not enough.
The Straits are where the Bay Mills Indian creation story begins .
They are also among the most productive fishing grounds for tribes exercising rights under an 1836 treaty.
Whitney Gravelle is a federal Indian law attorney and president of the Bay Mills Indian Community, which has vowed to fight back.
She joined Robyn Vincent on The Metro to discuss why she calls the state’s decision a betrayal.
Enbridge is a financial supporter of WDET.
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Michigan approved it anyway appeared first on WDET 101.9 FM .
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