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Trump Issues Presidential Permit for Enbridge's Line 5 Pipeline at Michigan-Ontario Border
Enbridge, the world's largest oil and gas pipeline company by market cap, received a presidential permit from President Donald Trump for its Line 5 pipeline at the St. Clair River crossing between Michigan and Ontario. The Calgary-based firm continues to expand operations across North America, including new pipelines and solar farms for data centers.
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President Donald Trump issued a presidential permit in April to Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline for the St. Clair River border crossing between Michigan and Ontario, Fortune reported. The permit advances the company's infrastructure projects in the region.
Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel project in the Great Lakes’ Straits of Mackinac remains under review and is hotly contested for environmental reasons. U.S. Gulf Coast.
The company’s Woodfibre LNG terminal is slated to come online in 2027 in British Columbia. Enbridge develops offshore wind farms in Europe. Enbridge announced a massive solar farm campus last year to power a Meta data center complex outside of San Antonio.
The company recently built the Sequoia solar farm in Texas for Toyota and AT&T. Enbridge is building gas pipelines and solar farms to service hyperscalers’ data centers and is working closely with Google, Amazon, and Meta. “In all of our businesses, both on the renewable side and the gas distribution and transmission side, we are hooking up or building projects for data centers for AI,” Greg Ebel said, according to Fortune.
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“One of the unfortunate—but positive for North America—outcomes of this Middle East situation will be a greater recognition that there’s less of a risk premium needed in North America,” he added. “At least for a very long time, people will wonder about the security of supply from that [Middle East] region. I think that’s a real winner for North American LNG that is safe and secure,” Ebel stated.
