- Date
- 2013-07-14
- Kind
- Announcement
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- environmentcommunicationconservationmaritime
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The August 2013 Beaver Beacon reports on the July 14 “Oil & Water Don’t Mix” rally at the Mackinac Bridge. The article describes opposition to increased crude-oil flow through Enbridge’s Line 5, identifies participating environmental groups and speakers, and presents the National Wildlife Federation’s warning that a Straits spill could spread toward Beaver Island within a day.
Evidence limits
This record preserves the newspaper’s account of the rally and its cited risk projection. It does not independently establish the modeled spill path, a spill, or the rally’s policy outcome.
Sources
- Beaver Beacon, August 2013, "Oil on the Shores of Beaver Island?"Reports the July 14 rally against increased Line 5 crude-oil volume, the participating environmental groups and speakers, and a National Wildlife Federation projection that a Straits spill could reach Beaver Island shores within a day. No public copy of this file is known; the archive holds one and can provide it on request.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 2013-08_Beaver-Beacon
- The held August issue scan confirms the rally report and its Beaver Island risk framing.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 2013-08_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Great Lakes rally raises Line 5 spill concerns for Beaver Island in 2013”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-oil-water-dont-mix-rally-2013/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, August 2013, "Oil on the Shores of Beaver Island?" (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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