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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has approved a permit for Enbridge to build a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac, to house a section of pipeline to replace the current Line 5 twin pipelines that are lying on the lakebed. It's a notable step in the process of building the controversial tunnel.

Opponents of a project to build a tunnel around Enbridge Energy's Line 5 oil and natural gas pipeline say their fight's not over even though a state agency reissued a resource permit for construction.

Michigan's environmental agency and its Department of Natural Resources, have issued two of the permits that are required for Enbridge Energy's proposed tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac.

The Supreme Court has sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state court. SCOTUS said the pipeline's owner missed the deadline to move the lawsuit to federal court.But meanwhile, another pending lawsuit argues Michigan doesn't have the authority to shut down the pipeline - only the federal government does.

In separate cases heard in back-to-back hearings by the Supreme Court, the plaintiffs argued the state has never fully analyzed the risks posed by a more than 70-year-old section of pipeline located in the Straits of Mackinac.

After years of legal wrangling, energy company Enbridge has finally started rerouting an aging oil pipeline around a tribal reservation in northern Wisconsin.

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in February on a key question that could decide whether state or federal courts will determine the fate of Enbridge Energy’s controversial Line 5.

Enbridge sought to stop the state from trying any further to shut down the pipeline, which in Wisconsin, runs through the Upper Peninsula, the Straits of Mackinac, and Lower Peninsula, before ending in Ontario, Canada.

Public comments are due by the end of the week after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed a tunnel alternative last month.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers finds construction could result in permanent loss of wetlands and bat habitat, disturb aquatic wildlife, and degrade roads. But it would eliminate the chance of an anchor strike.