Conservation groups ask feds to stop Enbridge project

A consortium of 55 Great Lakes conservation groups, including Save the Dunes, filed a federal petition Tuesday calling for an end to new tar sands pipeline construction by Enbridge Energy LP until updated safety measures are in place.

Village official hopes businesses embrace pipeline work

SAUK VILLAGE | Village Trustee Derrick Burgess said Wednesday he hopes businesses take advantage of the financial benefits from a pipeline to be built in 2014-15 that will pass through the village.

Enbridge hosting open houses for Line 78 Pipeline Project

Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership will host open houses in Illinois and Indiana this week for its proposed Line 78 Pipeline Project.

Enbridge projects seeking to improve transmission of oil

Enbridge Inc. said it has received support from shippers to proceed with a more than $6.2 billion program to expand the access refineries have to take advantage of higher levels of oil production in North Dakota and western Canada.

Waypoint Road in Portage closed

PORTAGE | Waypoint Road between Southport Road and Ameriplex Drive will be closed now through Oct. 15 for pipeline maintenance.

Local residents pipe up with Enbridge concerns

Bill LaFever is 72 and has spent 70 years living on his Union Township property. He and his wife, former Porter County Assessor Shirley LaFever, are concerned a new Enbridge oil pipeline project will threaten their health and safety.

Local residents pipe up with Enbridge concerns

Bill LaFever, a 72-year-old Union Township resident, talks about concerns over a new Enbridge oil pipeline project.

Local residents pipe up with Enbridge concerns

Chuck Gabriel, with his 3-year-old son, Aydan, has an Enbridge oil pipeline running through his Hobart property. Enbridge is decommissioning that line and constructing a new one adjacent to it, taking a much larger easement.

Local residents pipe up with Enbridge concerns

Chuck Gabriel has an Enbridge oil pipeline running through his Hobart property. Enbridge is decommissioning that line and constructing a new one adjacent to it, taking a much larger easement. Gabriel and others are concerned about the pipeline's affect on their properties and the health of t…

Pipeline would create thousands of permanent jobs

Obama apologists are coming out of the woodwork, trying to defend his rejection of the Keystone pipeline. They say that after refining in Louisiana or Texas, the gasoline will go overseas and have no beneficial effect on our prices. And the profits from refining will just go to the oil compa…

Obama was right to order a new study of pipeline

President Barack Obama's delay of a decision regarding whether to allow the oil sands pipeline to be built from North Dakota to Texas was a wise one.

Bury power lines instead of building Keystone XL pipeline

Right now President Barack Obama has one of the most important choices to make of his presidency -- he can either appease the labor element of his party with approval for the Keystone XL pipeline or be complicit in one of the most environmentally destructive projects in history. Because the …