Posted Draft EIS Comments

I am requesting more time for the public to read the 1000 page environmental impact statement for line 5. I am requesting people honor treaties with indigenous people in regard to land and water.

The public needs more time to review this statement before a vote can be taken

the public needs more time to review the more than 1000 page document!! this would allow for more time for discussion and comments from the very people this would affect

Please give the public more time to review the draft EIS and leave comments. It is quite long

Hello! Please allow more time for our review of the EIS. I’m a Minnesotan who has followed Line 3 and the damaging results already being noted by an environmental scientific community group Waadookawaad Amikwag (https://waadookawaadamikwag.org/). I am concerned that WI and MI will face similar troubles if the Line 5 tunnel is allowed to proceed. More time will allow me to give more details about my concerns, as you ask for on your website

The public should have much more time to review this impact statement, but above all, Line 5 should be completely decommissioned. It poses too much risk to the Great Lakes, with or without the tunnel; they’re a much more important natural resource than the oil transported by that pipeline, and we have responsibility to protect them.

The public needs more time to review and read this 1000 page long document!

To Whom It May Concern:

I am a 67-year-old Michigan resident that has loved and enjoyed the wonders of our GREAT LAKES since childhood. Some of our most treasured family memories are centered around camping trips to Sleeping Bear Dunes and the Upper Peninsula, day trips to the beaches in Chicago, South Haven, Ludington, Manistee, reunions on Mackinac Island, and countless others. What all of these memories have in common are the waters of our GREAT LAKES with the Great Beaches/Campgrounds, Great Beach Towns and Economies and all the other attendant GREATS that this area implies. These GREATS, which I’ve noted, and so many others that I have not, are worth protecting to the very best of our abilities.

With the whole world turning to Clean, Renewable Energy sources and infrastructure, why would we even consider propping up an obsolete, failing Line 5 pipeline? Worse yet, why would we perpetuate fossil fuel dependance by boring under the unstable and unpredictable bedrock beneath the Straits of Mackinac and putting our GREAT LAKES in GREAT PERIL? There are viable alternatives to this plan. PLEASE—fully investigate and test them before proceeding. I believe, and so do many, many others, that the very best alternative for all of our GREATS is to SHUT DOWN LINE 5 and just say NO to the proposed TUNNEL! Future generations are depending on us to do the right thing!

Thank you for your attention.

I am very concerned about the Line 5 Tunnel and what it will do to our environment. The idea that you can fast track something that may affect 20% of the worlds Fresh Water is unconscionable.

One needs to Analyze viable alternatives to the Tunnel route, Consider cumulative climate Impacts, Account for geologic and explosive risks, Evaluate Enbridge’s track record of spills and violations. The 30-day fast-track review is far too brief to be thorough. This oil tunnel would be a reckless experiment beneath the Great Lakes, putting more than 20% of the world’s fresh surface water and Tribal rights at risk. The Great Lakes are no place for a fossil fuel-gamble!