Posted Draft EIS Comments

I support line 5. Energy is vital for the USA from home use to national defense.

Please approve this project as it will not only protect the great lakes but also give Michigan its needed fuel to keep our homes heated and industry working. Using 8 acres of land is not a problem.

I have complete faith that this Line 5 is safe and functional. We need it here. Thank you all for doing a commendable service to our state.
I have zero complaints.

I support the Line 5 Tunnel Project. It is a good, safe plan. The plan will benefit the people of Michigan and the US. We will have a more secure oil supply and hopefully less expensive fuel which will boost the entirety of our economy. This progress has been stalled long enough.
Thank you kindly.

I strongly urge the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to reject the proposed Line 5 tunnel project. This project has not undergone a comprehensive risk assessment, despite posing grave risks to the Great Lakes, our climate, and public safety. The tunnel would not eliminate the spill threat from the aging pipeline, and an oil spill in this region would be catastrophic – threatening drinking water for 40 million people, harming wildlife, and jeopardizing Michigan’s economy, which depends on the Great Lakes for over 1.3 million jobs and $82 billion in wages. Tunnel and safety experts have raised serious concerns about the logistics and worker risks of boring beneath the lakebed, calling the project technically challenging and dangerous. The DEIS acknowledges ecological damage – including wetland loss, endangered species impacts, noise, and contamination – yet fails to fully evaluate greenhouse gas emissions or health impacts, locking us into decades more of fossil fuel use at a time of worsening climate and public health crises. The so-called “energy emergency” used to justify the rushed review is politically motivated and should not override public input or environmental protections. At least seven Tribal Nations have suspended consultation due to failure to uphold treaty rights or consider alternatives like pipeline decommissioning. Approving this project before those concerns and legal processes are resolved would be premature, unjustified, and harmful to future generations.

When are we finally going to learn that Mother Nature matters more than greed? Our fresh water and the wildlife and people that count on it SHOULD have more value in the decision making than the fossil fuel industry. A complete environmental review is needed. Our water is special, please do the right thing and not put it at risk. We do not need Line 5!
Thank you

The Trump administration is pushing for Line 5 to go through. This is irresponsible and a danger to the world’s largest fresh water supply, as well as the billions of dollars in business that rely on the Great Lakes. Further, very little of this oil is for the United States. Enbridge, a Canadian company that is responsible for the largest internal oil spill in U.S. history in the Kalamazoo River, wants to use the Great Lakes for a shortcut.

Tunnel Engineer Brian O’Mara points out that the conditions under the Straits of Mackinac are not fit for a tunnel.

In regard to Enbridge’s initial engineering report that supported the oil tunnel, O’Mara called out the following, “They (Enbridge) assumed very good rock conditions, they assumed minimal groundwater inflow, they assumed no toxic gases or methane. Most importantly they assumed that the tunnel annulus, which is the space between the pipeline and tunnel wall, be completely filled or backfilled with concrete … none of those conditions came true.”

In regard to Enbridge’s lack of adequate sampling of the bedrock, O’Mara remarked, “They didn’t do nearly enough borings, they didn’t go nearly deep enough, and they didn’t take the samples where they should have. And despite all of those deficiencies in their study they came back—and the report is open to the public—the rock quality is extremely poor to very poor quality. They grade rocks from 0-100%. 25% of the rock was a zero …This is the worst rock I’ve ever seen anyone think about putting a tunnel in… because the rock is so bad it doesn’t behave like rock, it behaves more like gravel.”

The Army Corps of Engineers is responsible to the public and to clean, safe waterways, not to the Trump administration and corporate interests. Please do the right thing and vote your conscience. An oil spill, if this goes through, will weigh on your conscience.