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Energy infrastructure is important, and one of the things this country was founded and built upon. The tunnel seems like a much better option then running a pipe along the lakebed. A tunnel is not new technology, and has been safely utilized all over the world, Michigan is no different. Stop the delays. If construction was started when the tunnel was proposed, it would be done and in operation now. I am local to the straits, most people here are not opposed to a common sense solution.

I am a pollinator preservationist. While it may seem that this is not connected to this pipeline, everything in nature is connected. Despite the efforts of myself and many other people who have been working tirelessly to save the pollinators and by extension, humanity, the monarch butterfly has recently been declared endangered. We do not need more fossil fuels. We need to concentrate on green energy and leave the oil in the ground. We would be better served by building carbon drawdown facilities.

My plan is a total restoration to native oak prairie. The reason for this is to help native bees, wasps, and other pollinators to thrive so we continue to have food. This is one facet of conservation that we as humans need to be working on. We do not need to pollute our Great Lakes further.

While positive intent to apply safety and security of the Line 5 tunnel is not questioned any risk of an oil leak in our great lakes is not acceptable no matter the statistically small percentage. There are enough man-made problems to contend with and the slightest error causing an oil leak creates a catastrophe that cannot be undone. An increased cost to Enbridge should not allow them to create any further risk to one of America's greatest and most beautiful natural habitats.

we don't need the oil running through our water to sell to other countries . we call this place mother earth and water is her blood. protect the water!!

My wife and I are strongly opposed to this project. Any corporate or industrial benefit that accrues to the large corporations involved is enormously outweighed by the environmental risks this pipeline would pose through the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the United States, and the construction of structures and/or work that may affect navigable water. Ruptures or other issues that could impact this pipeline would result in serious to disastrous impacts on the environment. The benefit is not worth the risk given the need to explore other sources of resources for energy production.

The line 5 tunnel project will provide the safety level required for a petroleum and LPG pipeline to safely cross the Straits of Mackinaw. Michigan has a very large use of LPG for winter time house heating and a large cost increase would be caused if LPG had to be trucked into Michigan. There would also be an increase danger by having more LPG tankers traveling throughout Michigan. The tunnel project should be approved and construction completed at the earliest time. Efforts by the Michigan State government to delay the project will lead to a higher likely hood of an accident. Approve the new pipeline!

No to it!

If this is such an important pipeline and the oil that will be pumped through it will be exported. Then this pipeline needs to go on Canadian land not the USA. If the Canadians want it they can have it.

I truly believe that the use of a pipeline to transport such product as the current Line 5 contains, is the absolute, safest, most cost-effective, least polluting and expeditious method we currently have at our disposal. And to bury it in a tunnel is our best option at containment of any possible mishaps, such as the one which occurred several years ago, when an uncontained, Enbridge pipeline ruptured, spilling its contents into the Kalamazoo River.

I believe this because I have been to Alaska, where the Trans-Alaska pipeline safely runs 800 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska on the North slope, South to its terminus at Valdez, Alaska. The pipeline runs through areas of seismic activity and it is constructed to allow considerable movement on its footings without peril. I have personally observed nearly all 800 miles of the pipe as well as its 13 pump stations. The majority of this pipeline lies beneath the ground. It's impact on wildlife and the surrounding environment is minimal, to the dismay of many naysayers. The pipeline is also designed to expand and contract. When it was first pressurized, it literally grew in length 13 miles, overall! Considering, the pipeline has been in place and in operation since the early 1970's, I would state its has a very good track record, despite several spills over the years, which were quickly contained. Many of those "spills", were the result of people in opposition to the pipe, tampering with it and even firing guns into it. I have observed that area wildlife tend to behave as though the pipeline isn't even there. It does not pose a risk to their natural migration.

It is essential to Canada and our Midwest area's economy and quality of life to keep Line 5 running. The products it provides are the mainstay of people in so many regions, but particularly in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It provides most of their Liquified Petroleum for heat. It also provides jet fuel to the Toledo area and others. I could go on.

If Line 5 were to be shut down, what would be our alternative method of transporting these essential products? Rail? Tanker Truck? Ships? It would take hundreds of tanker trucks to transport the amount of product Line 5 moves in one day! How many accidents are possible? How many spills? How much additional fuel would need to get burned? How much more additional pollution would that cause? How much would that drive up costs and for so many reasons including supply and demand? Shutting down Line 5 is not an option! We need that tunnel!

Please for the love of all that is good, shut this line down. All it takes to ruin our great lakes is one catastrophic failure. Oil companies have shown us time and time again that catastrophic failure isn't a matter of if, but when. It WILL fail and it will cost us greatly unless we shut it down NOW. Please think of our children and our children's children. Act now for the preservation of these waters for future generations. Let us not squander this opportunity.