5 YEARS AGO July 25, 2019
Officials of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians have lashed out against a former tribal official who is now working as a consultant for Enbridge, the company that operates petroleum pipelines under the Straits of Mackinac. A tribal attorney last week issued a news release asserting without evidence that the former head of the tribe’s Natural Resources Department, Desmond Berry of Suttons Bay, is an “employee of Enbridge and has been advocating for continued transmission of oil through the inherently dangerous twin pipelines within the Straits of Mackinac.”
*** Two storms over the weekend caused the cancellation of Wine on the Water and wreaked havoc on marinas with increasing water levels. Brian Adam, meteorologist at the National Weather Service Office in Gaylord, said two separate storms hit Leelanau County, adding the first arrived Friday night and lasted through the early part of Saturday morning while the second came Saturday early afternoon and ended in the late afternoon.
