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Make it Safe and Keep it Flowing.

I am a resident of Mackinac Island, Michigan, having lived here for 64 years. I am very aware of the importance of the island and Straits of Mackinac to the citizens of Michigan, the United States, and the world. My father started the historic preservation of Mackinac State Historic Parks in 1958. The beauty, history, and uniqueness of the island draw over one million visitors to the island annually which is of great importance to the economic welfare of the state. It is a natural treasure much loved by residents and visitors and we must ensure that nothing threatens the health of the Straits of Mackinac.

It is a water resource of continuing growing importance to the state, the region, and the world. We must take NO risk of an oil spill in this precious resource.

Please shut down the pipeline and divert the movement of oil away from the Straits of Mackinac. Neither the pipeline nor a tunnel would be safe in these waters as numerous studies from the University of Michigan have demonstrated.

Thank you for protecting our most precious resource.

Marta Olson

We enjoy our clean water. This company has a history of accidents that leave water unsafe. Please use a safer energy source and leave the beautiful lakes that are the pride of our great state alone. It's just not worth the risk.

THERE ARE ALTERNATIVE FORMS OF ENERGY; THERE ARE ALTERNATIVE ROUTES OF DELIVERY; THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO WATER!!!!!!!

The risk is simply too great. Please shut down Line 5 entirely and reroute the product through other existing pipes i.e. Line 6B. The proposed tunnel is also not a solution. The mere construction of it poses great risk to our environment and the safety of workers.

Please shut down line 5 for the hood of our waters and community. The facts show there is a significant risk of this outdated and I’ll conceived line polluting our non replaceable fresh water. The economic impact of this would be devastating to our state. No price tag can be put in the Great Lakes. Even a 1% chance of a major gas spill in our fresh water is too much. Find an alternative way to move these resources, it is possible. Enbridge can afford to lose a small percentage of profits by shutting down this line. Please listen to the public plea to shut down line 5 and save our most precious resource, fresh water! No tunnel, no pipeline. Thank you.

I am getting sick and tired of this Enbridge/Corps. Of Engineers crap. This has been going for years, and Enbridge keeps getting “hands off treatment” and biding their time for sympathetic politicians to give them the green light for the final push. Thousands of people, including me, have written to legislators, posted Letters to the Editor, made comments at Enbridge ‘town halls” and here we are again? Shut the goddamn thing down. The Rapid River, MI, propane extraction plant with their storage tanks would have a blast radius of over 10 miles in the event of an explosion. This would be catastrophic to all the communities in that area. A railroad car unloading propane exploded in Kingman, AZ, on July 5, 1973.
Here’s the site: https://www.firehouse.com/rescue/article/10544591/the-kingman-rail-car-bleve
Here are excerpts from the article:
“It was 25 years ago, on July 5, 1973, that a propane tank car being off-loaded in Kingman, AZ, caught fire, resulting in a BLEVE - boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion - that killed 11 Kingman firefighters and one civilian. In addition to the 11 firefighters and one civilian killed, three other firefighters were burned by radiant heat from the blast - two from Kingman and one from the Hualapai Valley Fire District. Two police officers and 95 civilians also suffered burns from the radiant heat. More than $1 million in property damage was reported. Those firefighters killed had the coats and their street clothes burned off of their bodies by the fire and radiant created from the explosion. A ground-level fireball ensued and extended 150 to 200 feet in all directions from the center of the blast. This was followed by a large mushroom cloud of flame extending several hundred feet into the air, measuring 800 to 1,000 feet in diameter.Fireball flame temperatures can reach well over 3,500F. The fireball and radiant heat set five buildings on fire, including the tire company, restaurant, truck stop and gas company office building, and started several brushfires.”
That’s why these are called accidents right? Pipeline failures, explosions, resultant fires….enough is enough. This pipeline will never be safe. It’s not rocket science for God’s sake. It’s Canadian oil, let them ship it from their coastlines, not through pristine waters nor land in Michigan.

This project doesn't sound environmentally friendly. It should be abandoned. PLEASE leave Mother Nature alone!

I strongly oppose Line 5 being operational in our state. This pipeline was constructed through our state as a route to serve a the shortest route between Canadian business entities. It should be relocated to only Canada, or move the refinery to the source fuels necessary. As a resident of N. lower peninsula, I have been sickened by the history of spills on record by Enbridge. Yet, a 60 year old pipeline runs under the straights between 2 of our Great Lakes. These comprise 20% of the worlds fresh water. We rely on these 2 lakes for food, play, transportation, even local weather patterns. Please hear our voices and dismantle this pipeline. Move it out of our great state. Thank you, Kim Buntin

Dear people,

Do you have a home you love, or is this planet just another pit stop on the race track of your life?

Some people love this globe like their own mother - have called it home for thousands of years. In fact, some recognize themselves, and this earth as part of a vast web of life that reaches far beyond the horizons of our world ... a sanctuary of life ... sacred grounds where dreams are born and we, as children of life, are held and nurtured.

When we desecrate these sacred grounds, we rip that web to shreds - pollute the waters, foul the air, strip once fertile soils bare and dump our garbage everywhere - raping the beloved mother of life, destroying the cherished home.

Is that how you treat your mother?

Is that what you want for your home?

Humans were created to care for this garden planet - not to pollute and destroy it.

For the moment, we still have a choice. That moment will pass. Will we pass with it, or will we choose to heal the wounds and stop the wounding of these treasured grounds?

With due regard,

k. allen

https://tahomahome.weebly.com/prayer-for-america.html

Enbridge had requested a construction permit from the the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the pipeline, but the Corps in 2021 insisted on a more in-depth environmental impact statement of the Line 5 tunnel be prepared first. This potentially years-long effort to determine what the impact of tunnel construction in the straits is extremely important to Michiganders.