Posted Draft EIS Comments

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I ask that you not build the line 5 pipeline. It will pollute our Great Lakes, poison the environment and decimate all the ocean life. Every time I hear the Enbridge commercials on the radio I immediately turn it off. The oil industry is not the best way to generate power. We should strive for cleaner solutions like solar and wind power. It’ll benefit everyone and everything more and provides hundreds of jobs. Compared to the oil industry which is old fashioned and only runs by a few corporations and fewer workers. Basically “We the people” believe it is in the publics best interest to not have it built. Thank you for your time and consideration. Have a good day.

Sections of the pipeline known as Line 5, including the entirety of the dual pipelines at the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac, are past their operating lifetime. They need to be safely removed. We ought NOT ALLOW Enbridge, the multi-national corporation which had been operating Line 5, to further damage that which is in the public trust by tunneling into such a sensitive location. Option 2C is the correct option and ought to be further examined. What are the detailed plans for the safe cleaning and delicate removal of the existing pipeline? Where will the byproducts of cleaning and wastewater be disposed? How will the release of oil and chemicals into the straits be prevented?
Please protect the life including wetlands and vegetation on the land and the ground and surface water. Please DO NOT allow Enbridge to create this tunnel and ensure clean up the mess from the existing pipeline.

I’m requesting an extension . 30 days is not enough time for the public to review and respond to 1,000 pages of technical data. Please provide the public with an extension.

I’m a Citizen of the Sault Tribe, but Mackinac band Ojibwe. Enbridge is trespassing on our ancestral land which is the bottom lands of the Straits of Mackinac. This is cultural Genocide, Racial Genocide & Environmental Genocide. No Line 5 Tunnel & Decommission Line 5. Let’s invest in clean renewable energy for the next 7 generations.

This comment process is grossly insufficient for a 1000+ page EIS and only one month deadline. You received over 77,000 public comments during scoping, with more than 90% of Michigan testimony opposing this project when given adequate time to comment. Why are you ignoring this overwhelming public opposition? This tunnel project would turn the Straits of Mackinac into an experimental industrial zone for six-plus years of construction, violate Indigenous treaty rights, and threaten the Great Lakes that provide drinking water for 40 million people, all so a Canadian corporation can transport oil that isn’t even needed in Michigan.

This experimental tunnel poses serious explosion risks from submerged methane, would destroy wetlands and endangered bat habitat, and uses an untested design that independent experts warn is dangerous. There is no justification for Michigan and the U.S. to bear these risks to benefit a Canadian oil company. Construction costs have already ballooned from $500 million to potentially $1.5 billion, while Enbridge’s own experts testified that removing Line 5 would only increase transportation fuel prices by 0.5 cents per gallon. Why should Michigan bear these costs for such minimal benefit?

Slashing the public comment period from 60 to 30 days renders it almost impossible for citizens to be able to read and understand the draft review, which is hundreds of pages long and very detailed. I need more time to read an understand the implications of the report.

By claiming an “energy emergency” which neither exists or would be relevant to this project, as the pipeline would not provide oil and gas to the United States, USACE rushed the environmental review process and has not completed the ethnographic study or fully honored their government to government responsibilities and obligations to Tribes. The shortened review period does not give the public the adequate time to consider and provide input on the draft EIS. Tribal Nations oppose this project and as sovereign nations whose sacred sites will most certainly be negatively affected by this project, they should be listened to. A project such as this, that could have such serious environmental impacts, and will have serious cultural impacts should be considered with the utmost caution, all alternatives should be considered to the highest degree, and Tribal sovereignty should be respected above all.

Enbridge has such a scary history of hugely damaging pipeline leaks, and of not being forthcoming about those leaks. Line 5 is 72 years old, and it alone has had at least 33 documented oil spills since 1968, spilling over 1.1 million gallons of oil! Across the entire Enbridge system, there have been hundreds of spills, doing enormous damage to the fragile environment. The Great Lakes hold a significant portion of the world’s fresh surface water and are essential for the environment and the communities that rely on them. They are too precious a resource to gamble with. Enbridge has already proven itself not up to the task of safely managing its pipelines. The only ethical option is to shut down Line 5 for once and for all!