Posted Scoping Comments

SHUT IT DOWN! SHUT IT DOWN! This was/is/always will be a disaster! It always will be an environmental disaster beyond realization. This DOES NOT benefit Michiganders at all! This is 100% for the benefit of a foreign country. We SHOULD not allow this disaster in OUR waters! These waters are Michigans! They serve a vast number of wildlife we all depend on. It’s very sensitive and crucial to protect our amazing waterways! No body else, has the amazing waters of Michigan. This is a literal time bomb waiting to explode and kill many many wildlife AND harm and may kill our selves, Michiganders. SHUT IT DOWN NOW!!

Stop new oil pipelines; no new fossil fuel infrastructure. We need a just transition NOW!

I’ve been against this pipeline going under the straight of Mackinac since I first realize it was there. I was a small tile when they put it in so I had no voice then but I do have now. This is the largest freshwater basin on the planet if anything were to happen and it leaked millions of people would be without safe drinking water ,water to wash in and outdoor play. Our billion dollar sports fishing industry could collapse.
I feel that people are more important than short term income for a few. This really doesn’t help the people of Michigan be safe or improve living conditions. Water is life we should respect our water.

I am not entirely opposed to Line 5. However, if it is to be done, Enbridge can NOT be involved in any manner. They lie or manipulate data frequently on their advertisements, and have proven with other spills that they are not a reliable company to entrust our wonderful Great Lakes with.

Thanks for opening this 60-period for public involvement. I accept that fossil fuel curtailment will not be instant. But LINE-5 is an unnecessary risk and prolonging its service life should stop for the multiple reasons given by others: tribal sovereignty, freshwater harm from prior (2010, etc) Enbridge mistakes, archaeological destruction of shore zones with generational human activity during history and prehistory, and the need to begin curtailing fossil fuel business right now in 2022. Do not invest in continuing LINE-5 service life.

The great lakes are of great strategic value for their fresh water, creating recreational opportunities and habitat for species not found elsewhere. Enbridge has been rather slow at fixing pipelines elsewhere in Michigan, and really cannot be trusted to competently manage a pipeline that may leak into the lakes and spoil the value provided by them. An overland route should is preferable.

Like 5 must be shut down. The safety of Michigan’s Great Lakes is of paramount importance and Enbridge has repeatedly shown it can not be trusted to prevent environmental damages, such as recently in Wisconsin and several years ago in the Kalamazoo river. Even if they didn’t have a terrible history of environmental impact, it would still not be worth allowing a pipeline through the Mackinac Straits due to the substantial risk posed and the importance of the health of the Great Lakes to Michigan. Enbridge has spent significant amounts of lobbying dollars trying to push this through for years and it is disgraceful. It is time the Upper Peninsula embraces wind, solar, and nuclear energy solutions and it is time for the ACE to reject this exploitation of Michigan Natural beauty for profit. This pipeline should be shut down immediately and permanently.

Hello,

My name is Andrew Soens and I have a BS in geology and environmental studies. I have lived in Michigan my entire life, and my family heritage goes all the way back to the original loggers of the lower peninsula. This HAS TO STOP NOW. I was a student at Western Michigan during the Enbridge spill of the Kalamazoo river. They have shown continuous disregard for their equipment and cleanup. This line is an absolute travesty they are constantly lying about the jobs and energy for Michigan. The line does not begin or end in Michigan so there will only be a few jobs "maintaining the line". Are you really going to risk the largest fresh water supply in the world for this? We all have to look at ourselves in the mirror and realize what we are doing and what we are letting Enbridge get away with. Do you really want to face God and be forced to answer for your actions or inaction? They are liars, they are incompetent, and corrupt through and through. We CAN NOT allow them to jeopardize the largest fresh water supply in the world. PLEASE BRING THIS TO A VOTE LET THE PEOPLE DECIDE!

Enbridge has shown to be very unreliable when it comes to both constructing and maintaining pipelines and the absolute last thing that Michigan needs is a disaster because a foreign company is allowed to make sub par pipelines. Keep the great lakes clean and safe for actual US citizens, not for foreign oil and gas companies and governments.

Climate change is undeniable, and it’s effects are already affecting our daily lives. Line 5, and any other project which further develops carbon-dependent infrastructure is a clear step in the wrong direction. IPCC’s clearest warnings yet make obvious that we can only limit warming to the least disastrous levels if we make drastic changes to limit anthropogenic carbon emissions. https://www.ipcc.ch/sr15/chapter/spm/

Line 5 not only advances a carbon-dependent future, but it also puts one of the nations greatest national resources, the world’s largest collection of accessible fresh water, at risk of irreversible contamination. The army corp of engineers should already be aware that in a warming and drying future, conflicts over water resources will become more and more common. A threat to the incredible resource of the Great Lakes is a threat to the strategic security of the whole region.

The army corp of engineers should consider the extent to which this proposal asks for us to cut off our nose to spite our face, and deny it as a grave threat to the future of the Great Lakes and our warming world. To allow the continued development of fossil fuel pipelines which only contribute to the increased natural disasters your agency will have to combat as the world continues to warm and climate becomes more and more hostile to life, is to give these modern day oil barons the rope to string us all up with. Stop this tragedy, and tell your grandchildren how you stopped those who would profit from the death of our planet.

If you are unswayed by the threat to our planet and our lives, any spill in the lakes would threaten tourism, an industry many of our lakeshore communities rely on, and the existence of the pipeline by contrast provides no direct economic benefit to these communities who would pay the price for any spill.