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MARQUETTE — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer filed a response brief in Enbridge’s lawsuit over the Line 5 dual pipelines, which sits on the lakebed in the Straits of Mackinac and transport oil through the Great Lakes. Enbridge filed the lawsuit in 2020, after the Whitmer and the director of the Michigan Department of Natural Resources revoked Enbridge’s easement. Whitmer’s brief challenged Enbridge’s claim that it can continue to pump oil through the Great Lakes regardless of what the State of Michigan says and reiterated that Line 5 constitutes an unparalleled risk to ...

Murdock benefit to support museum

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MARQUETTE — The Marquette Maritime Museum and the Ore Dock Brewing Company present Great Lakes folksinger and songwriter Lee Murdock 's Songs of Superior Concert, at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, at the Ore Dock Brewing Company. Noted as a fluent instrumentalist on six- and 12-string guitars, Murdock ...

Protect the Porkies, Highland Copper respond to $50M Copperwood Mine grant

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IRONWOOD — The advocacy group Protect the Porkies has made a statement regarding the $50 million grant Highland Copper recently received from the Michigan Strategic Fund: “On (Tuesday), the Michigan Strategic Fund — a board of unelected businesspeople — voted to approve the use of 50 million taxpayer dollars to advance the Copperwood Mine,” read their statement. “The funding had been three times denied through plain old democracy, so this fourth time the MSF employed a deceptive backdoor strategy to bypass votes from elected officials by allocating left-over funds from ...

Strut your Mutt charity walk to be held Oct. 3

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MARQUETTE — The Upper Peninsula Animal Welfare Shelter has announced the date for its 21st annual Strut Your Mutt fundraiser. The walk will be held at 10 a.m. on Oct. 3 at Mattson Lower Harbor Park in Marquette, with registration beginning at 9 a.m. The cost to register is $20 per ...