Posted Draft EIS Comments

The line 5 threat has been going on so long! It’s a disaster ready to happen. All these excuses and delays are horrible. There’s nothing good about line 5 which has outlived it usefulness. It only enhances Enbridge. Stop the madness.

Many tunnel experts have expressed concern for the logistics of placing a tunnel under the lakebed, considering it to be complicated, dangerous, and technically challenging. This is especially important considering the Line 5 tunnel project has not undergone a comprehensive risk assessment.
Our state relies on healthy Great Lakes ecosystems for fishing and tourism. It’s crucial that we take time and consider carefully any project that might compromise the lakes.

As a citizen of Michigan, I disagree strongly with Enbridge’s attempts to build a tunnel under the Great Lakes. Doing so would endanger our greatest source of fresh water, not to mention the environmental impact of a major oil spill would have on the wildlife and tourism of the lakes.
Why isn’t Enbridge, and Canadian company, trying to build the pipeline over Canadian soil? Because the indigenous people of Canada won’t allow it. So they illegally went through the American government without consulting our indigenous tribes.
There hasn’t been an adequate risk assessment, there is no energy emergency, and we should not be giving precedent to fossil fuels at this stage of global warming. Let Enbridge build their pipeline in Canada.

Other options exist to LINE 5 pipes or a tunnel running under the straits: I do not belong to a group, nor have I ever run for, nor held, any political office. I am an 80 year old family woman who has lived in Petoskey area all of my life; 30 miles south of proposed Enbridge Tunnel. Living close by, I have concerns, but also The Great Lakes literally are massively influential to the ENTIRE country, while touching 8 states! Enbridge decisions regarding LINE 5, running under the Straits of Mackinac could end in a catastrophe. Newspapers already have reported several incidents with Enbridge pipeline accidents. Why Michigan would build a tunnel to mostly benefit Canada\Enbridge is questionable when Enbridge has not been dependable nor concerned about safety of the straits. See attached map please. Having originated in Upper Canada, the 30″ pipe line then runs for 645 miles from Superior, Wisconsin, through the Upper Peninsula, and then splits into two 20″ OD parallel pipelines, running under the Straits of Mackinac and on through Michigan to Sarnia, Ontario, Canada. LINE 5 transports light crude oil and natural gas liquids. In Canada, most of the petroleum goes to gasoline refineries. Some oil goes to the Marathon Refinery in Detroit, and some is shipped overseas. Enbridge Inc. is a multinational pipeline and energy company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Enbridge owns and operates pipelines throughout Canada and the United States, transporting crude oil, natural gas, and natural gas liquids, and also generates renewable energy. Please read: My Alternative Answer to Removing Line 5 Crossing the Straits written on the map below. I agree with President Trump about energy for our country being extremely important, and Trump’s immediate blanket support for fast tracking permits for energy production. However, I cannot believe President Trump totally was informed, of implications of Enbridge’s proposed underwater Tunnel, and pipeline, and how tragic routing the line under water is! What bothers me is the LINE 5 ROUTE…. especially under the water of our straits. I am not saying to close Line 5 down, but rather REROUTE the line…. and NOT under the straits. Enbridge says the answer to the LINE 5 problem is to build a tunnel under the straits… of which different groups have been fighting against, and even our Democratic Governor and State Attorney General have been fighting it. This Enbridge Tunnel proposal is a BI-PARTISAN issue affecting everyone. I ask to FIGHT against this misguided proposed Canadian tunnel to perpetuate LINE 5… I am not asking to close down the same amount of energy, just REROUTE it.

Removing the old pipe could have bad consequences. Water and oil, fish, birds don’t mix. Really sad.,Tinacywinski@gmail.com

I support the Line 5 tunnel. This will eliminate the risk of damage to the present pipeline.
The wetlands and bat habitat can be restored much earlier than a ruptured pipeline oil spill in the strait.

I am writing because many people are concerned about possibility of continued underground and underwater construction involving oil and gas in the Great Lakes. Despite or in spite of advances in technology, water always wins. A private company whose chief concern is profit, not environment despite their protestations, is unwilling to consider alternate means and their incorrect descriptions of the benefits to Michigan are indirect at best and certainly not as impactful on energy as they also claim, or the impact on cost for energy. The current pipeline is bad enough and installed at a time when environmental responsibility was far less a priority than it is now, a new one is still not an answer. The installation of a pipeline through and to Wisconsin from Canada makes far more sense that the current plan for Michigan. It too would be costly, but would not endanger the Great Lakes from the inevitable deterioration of mans work to circumvent natural barriers to energy and profits. The deceit and outright lies that Enbridge spins to the public are desperate attempts to defeat the common sense that most people have about mixing oil and water and the damage that will never be undone when it occurs.
There are far too many red flags for this project to proceed. Political administrations change regularly but the negative effects are left for the public to live with, in many cases, forever.
This project is just bad for Michigan and bad for the environment for several reasons you are well aware of but minimize with “technology” which is also unproven in oil and gas transmission. Since when does Michigan put profit and energy ahead of the will of the residents who live in this environment. Those days should be long gone by now but seem to hold greater sway on our representative than is warranted. Currently, cases are being made and awareness heightened about soils, natural elements all of which are not supportive of trust for such an enterprise.
Please heed the public and do not allow this test of construction and engineering to prevail in a poor result and high risk to the public and nature. Stop it now as the effects of time, material and management will lead to a disaster of proportions greater than any previous spill or “mishap” that can be imagined.
Thank you.

NO. NO pipelines under the Great Lakes. Everything leaks and ages. Risking 1/5 of the fresh water on the entire earth is THE STUPIDEST IDEA EVER! Enbridge in particular has a very poor record of maintenance. DONT KILL US ALL.

I am strongly opposed to fast tracking the proposed Line 5 tunnel. It is irresponsible in the extreme not to conduct a thorough environmental and safety review for this project. The project entails the danger of a devastating oil spill into the Great Lakes, water we should be preserving for future generations. There are considerable dangers to construction workers. There has been no meaningful listening to tribal groups whose lands and livelihoods will be harmed by the proposed tunnel. And on top of these weighty concerns is the overarching stupidity of locking us into fossil fuel dependence for decades, when it is precisely the extraction and burning of fossil fuels that is destroying the stable climate and ecosystems that we all (human and non-human creatures alike) rely on to sustain life. This project spells death to humans and wildlife, and greater suffering for our children. Climate change is real, it is caused by humans, and we must stop extracting and burning fossil fuels if we want our species and other species to survive.

I support the Line 5 Tunnel Project. It will support a proven, reliable source of energy for decades to come in a region that needs and relies on it. It will prevent hundreds if not thousands of acres of forest from being destroyed for unreliable “solar farms” or unreliable and unsightly windmills. It will prevent the use of additional tanker trucks on the Mackinaw Bridge which would increase traffic congestion and the potential of catastrophic accidents.