"LANSING – Gov. Rick Snyder signed legislation Wednesday to create a new authority to oversee a proposed Line 5 tunnel in the Straits of Mackinac and named a top aide, an academic and a labor leader as its three members.

Snyder signed Senate Bill 1197 to create the Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority one day after he received the bill from the Legislature.

That's unusually quick, but Snyder wants to get the authority up and running and agreements finalized with Canadian energy giant Enbridge, the operator of the aging oil pipeline that crosses the Straits of Mackinac, before the end of the year.

That's when Democrats Gretchen Whitmer and Dana Nessel assume the offices of governor and attorney general respectively."

Paul Egan reports for the Detroit Free Press December 12, 2018. [2]