Line 5

On this episode of Stateside, we recapped all we have learned about the GOP candidates running for governor. Then, an installation in downtown Ann Arbor commemorates the children lost during the ongoing war in Ukraine. Also, we continued the IPR miniseries on oil spills.

There’s no safe way to move crude oil across an entire continent. So what risks are we willing to take? And who bears the brunt of that risk? Over the next couple days, we'll be looking at times when transporting oil went horribly wrong. Today, we’ll hear about a pipeline that ruptured. Next time, we’ll consider the alternative.

Today on Stateside, a reporter from MLive discussed the importance of Michigan's Eagle Mine. Then, poet Frances Kai-Hwa Wang dished on her latest poetry collection. Plus, part one of the IPR Points North series on crude oil catastrophes in Michigan.

Environmental advocacy groups said the predicted price increase is well short of the spike the company had been suggesting would result from a shutdown.

The fraught status of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline, which is still operating a year after Governor Whitmer’s deadline to stop. Folk musician May Erlewine’s new album. And, a Republican prosecutor’s plan to apply Michigan’s 1931 ban on abortion if Roe is overturned.

A report suggests two regional refineries would close because they couldn't get enough oil. Environmentalists dispute the report's projections.

A look into the data behind Michigan's recent COVID drop and the intersection of science and politics. An update on Enbridge and the Line 5 pipeline beneath the Straits of Mackinac. A celebration of actor Nicolas Cage in Detroit. Interlochen Public Radio's Dan Wanschura talks the unintended consequences of human intervention in nature.

The Michigan Public Service Commission included climate change impact as it considers Enbridge Energy's request to move its Line 5 oil pipeline from the lake bed of the Mackinac Straits to a proposed tunnel under the Straits.

Enbridge Energy, which owns the pipeline, says Line 5 is critical to the economy and energy needs.

Enbridge Energy makes the next move in the legal tussle to stop Michigan from shutting down Line 5.