SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich. (Great Lakes News) – The U.S. and Canada will discuss the future of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac after the Biden administration renewed Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s call to shut down the pipeline despite no alternate plan being in place.

Last month, Canada invoked a 1977 treaty to keep Line 5 open and has excluded Whitmer from its pipeline talks.

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Over the weekend, former Michigan governor and current U.S. Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm laughed when asked, “What is the Granholm plan to increase oil production in America?”

“That is hilarious,” Granholm responded. “Would that I had the magic wand on this.”

She went on to blame OPEC, despite Biden having shut down the Keystone XL Pipeline with an executive order on his first day in office.

Rich Studley, CEO of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce, did not mince words when asked to respond to Granholm’s comments.

“As we move into winter, there is absolutely nothing hilarious about the determination of the Biden/Harris/Granholm administration to raise the cost of gasoline, to create an immediate and severe propane shortage this winter in the U.P. and northern Michigan, and to saddle the rest of us with skyrocketing prices for gasoline.”

Studley added, “Jennifer Granholm was a weak and ineffective governor. She’s part of an administration…that’s clueless about anything that’s going on in the Midwest,” he said.