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Please stop all Endbridge pipelines that are on US and Tribal lands. Especially Lines 5 and 3.

Endbridge’s failure to clean up after the Kalamazoo River spill by Marshall, MI is indicative of their ability and willingness to rectify the environmental impact of oil spills from their pipelines.

Maintaining the cleanliness of our water is imperative, look at the recent disaster in the Huron River.


A spill at the Straits of Mackinac would be catastrophic.

Most of the oil in these pipelines go through the US and Tribal lands end up back in Canada. They need to build pipelines through their own country instead of through the US and Tribal lands.

Thanks!!!

This pipeline puts our Great Lakes in an unnecessary and perilous situation where any number of small mistakes could render an ecological disaster of a scale not previously seen. Fresh water is rapidly becoming our most important and rare resource, and so the potential cost of this pipeline is too great to allow it to continue. Faster transitioning of Michigan's energy needs to renewable energy will save our society money, water, and carbon budget over the long term compared to this pipeline.

I am for dismantling and removing Line 5 from the Straits. This is a Canadian pipeline and we only get a small portion of this oil. The Great Lakes are 20% off the planets fresh water and needs to be protected. An oil spill or leak could be catastrophic to these lakes. The risk is not worth the benefit, especially since we are moving towards more "green" energy. It would provide as many jobs to dismantle and remove it as it would to build a tunnel. Also, how do we know what the harm to the lakes could be by digging down below it? How many ecosystems would be compromised? Not worth the risk. Not just the environmental impact, a spill or leak would be detrimental to Michigan's economy. People come here because of our natural beauty.

I would like to see detailed plans on how they would drain/evacuate the tunnel of oil pending a line rupture. What features would be placed intermittently along the tunnel insides to detect ruptures or leaks, as well as what pumping machines would be present to ensure no oil sits undetected in the tunnel should it leak.

Is the cement impermeable? I would propose a 2 layer tunnel to avoid any seepage should it rupture or break.

What plants are being relocated? What land is being repurposed for these endangered plants they must move?

What impacts to local lake Michigan and Huron reefs would be had after dumping of tunnel refuse?

Should the tunnel refuse be placed at the very bottom of lake Huron/Michigan in the straight? Instead of along the shoreline.

This tunnel should have already been built. The tunnel will provide a safer and more practice way to inspect the pipeline. Stop with the money and time wasting bureaucrat nonsense and get this tunnel built.

If you really want to be an effective part of goverment, get these companies and waste water treatment plants to stop dumping there products in our rivers and lakes. Enbridge is trying to prevent a leak from happening and you are stopping them. Yet week after week, we read about companies and treatment plants dumping into the water ways. Why don't you stop them. Its almost like you people want the pipeline to fail. Stop dragging your feet and let this tunnel be built.

I cannot underestimate the importance of this project moving forward for the state of Michigan and the upper Midwest and Canada. I am confident the project is extremely viable and will add a great economic benefit to the state of Michigan and jobs created. This is probably one of the most sophisticated environmentally proven pipeline projects ever to be constructed in the United States. The developer owner will take every precaution that the army corps recommends.

The Line 5 upgrade will be a significant improvement to provide reliable low cost energy solutions between Canada and the USA for decades to come. Alternative methods to transport fuel that’s essential to many communities in the USA is paramount as it will be needed and trucking or railing it from its source will be more expensive, less efficient and safer for the environment. Line 5 has been safe and reliable for years. Critics have no sound or logical arguments. Our country’s national security is dependent on low cost and reliable energy solutions into the next century which includes fossil fuels in abundance. Other energy sources are fine as they develop in the free market w/o subsidy that we can’t afford. The green agenda has a place in future innovations but it’s far from being ready for prime time today.

I have lived in Michigan all my 67 years and the thought of them being spoiled by a massive oil spill breaks my heart..if Canada wants oil, let them run it through their land and not through our Lakes!! but their citizens won't let them which should tell you something. NO to Line 5!!!!!

I live on Lake Huron & I do not want oil or any other chemical polluting our waters! So I recommend you close down ALL oil & chemical lines that go near water. Plus you really need to start focusing on non polluting energy & safe non toxic products. Please do the right thing for all people, animals, water life on this earth & not follow the big polluting companies that are only concerned with filling their pockets with money at the expense of the people/wildlife/water/planet. Thank you for stopping this oil line!!!

As a Michigan citizen who lives near Lake Michigan, I live in fear that our beautiful lakes and the tourism dollars that depend on them will be ruined by a Line 5 oil spill. Building a very expensive tunnel to carry an unneeded pipeline carries its own risks of explosion and construction mishaps. Line 5 carries almost all of its oil from Canada back to Canada while putting Michigan and Michiganders at significant risk of harm. The Line 5 tunnel should not be built and the pipeline should be shut down.