Energy commission members hold the power to deny the projects and are reviewing environmental studies of underwater construction. Energy commission members hold the power to deny the projects and are reviewing environmental studies of underwater construction. We shouldn't accept using Lake Michigan as a path of least resistance. Next month, Gulfstream Gas Co. will begin a 400-mile link connecting gas wells in Alabama to consumers in Florida. Compared to burning coal or oil, gas creates far fewer of the air pollutants known as particulates.
Water levels are at their lowest in four decades.
Sled-mounted devices would direct a water jet to carve the trench along the lake's bottom. Several hundred miles to the west, on Lake Michigan, the Whitecap pipeline proposal marks a 90-mile underwater path that roughly parallels shore. Obviously, we're trying to make this decision as soon as humanly possible.