{"id":3672,"date":"2023-06-19T20:16:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T20:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3672"},"modified":"2023-06-19T21:04:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T21:04:59","slug":"wmc-urges-dnr-to-advance-line-5-permitting-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3672","title":{"rendered":"WMC Urges DNR to Advance Line 5 Permitting Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-urges-dnr-to-advance-line-5-permitting-process\/\">https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-urges-dnr-to-advance-line-5-permitting-process\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>MADISON<\/strong> \u2013 Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce (WMC) \u2013 the combined state chamber and manufacturers\u2019 association \u2013 urged the Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to move forward with the permitting process of Enbridge\u2019s Line 5 relocation project in northern Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>This comes after a federal judge ruled on Friday that Enbridge must shut down a 12-mile section of the pipeline currently operating on the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Reservation. Enbridge submitted permit applications to the State of Wisconsin in February 2020 and is still awaiting final approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile we applaud the court\u2019s decision not to immediately shut down Line 5 and allow it to continue to safely operate, the judge\u2019s deadline of three years to complete Enbridge\u2019s proposed relocation project draws more urgency to this matter,\u201d said WMC Executive Vice President of Government Relations Scott Manely. \u201cWisconsin businesses depend on the energy provided by Line 5 and a shutdown would have devastating impacts on our state\u2019s economy and families.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Line 5 is critical to the upper Midwest\u2019s energy infrastructure and is vital to Wisconsin\u2019s economy. The pipeline moves up to 540,000 barrels of energy products each day that are used throughout the region. To transport the equivalent by tanker truck, it would require 2,100 trucks traveling across northern Wisconsin roads each day \u2013 equal to 90 trucks leaving the Superior terminal each hour.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been over three years since Enbridge began the permitting process with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, yet no decision has been made,\u201d added Manley. \u201cThere is no excuse for this delay, and Wisconsinites who rely on this critical energy infrastructure deserve better. We call on the Wisconsin DNR to immediately approve this project, and allow the relocation work to begin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WMC submitted comments to DNR last year in support of the Line 5 relocation project. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.wmc.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/15092150\/WMC-Comments-in-Support-of-Line-5-Relocation-2022.4.14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here to read those comments.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">\n###<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-urges-dnr-to-advance-line-5-permitting-process\/\">WMC Urges DNR to Advance Line 5 Permitting Process<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wmc.org\">WMC Wisconsin&#8217;s Chamber <\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wmc.org\/press-releases\/wmc-urges-dnr-to-advance-line-5-permitting-process\/ MADISON \u2013 Wisconsin Manufacturers &amp; Commerce (WMC) \u2013 the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wmc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3672"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3673,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3672\/revisions\/3673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}