Supplemental Draft EIS Comments

This project should not move forward. Enbridge has a history of negligence and environmental violations. The corporation cannot be trusted to maintain the ecosystem in which they are operating. Too many people depend on the Great Lakes for drinking water. People should be placed over corporate profits.

I ask the Army Corps to continue to reject the application of Enbridge to drill and move product under the Straits of Michigan. Respectfully, there is no "new" or current technology that can guarantee a spillless outcome. Lake Huron and Lake Michigan provide precious water to millions. As a past government employee, I frequently had to weigh cost/risk vs benefit. To put a single company's profit over the needs of millions does not constitute an effective cost-benefit risk. A tunnel under the straits, possibly......a pipeline, a hard NO!

A disaster in the making

I am a Midwesterner who relies on Lake Michigan for my drinking water, among other crucial things. The lake is an important gathering place for me and my neighbors in addition to this lifeline. I am deeply concerned about the impact of the Line 5 project on the local ecology across the Great Lakes region, on quality of drinking water, soil required for local agriculture, local ecosystems, as well as sovereignty of indigenous peoples. Please reject any plan that would lead to drilling under the Great Lakes. You can't drink oil.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers just announced a new review for the Line 5 oil pipeline project — this time focused on a risky drilling plan under the Straits of Mackinac, the narrow waterway where Lake Michigan and Lake Huron meet. For years, the government said it would only review a tunnel proposal. Now they’re suddenly shifting to a new drilling plan instead and the company behind Line 5, Enbridge, has a history of drilling accidents and spills. If something goes wrong under the Straits, oil could spread quickly into two Great Lakes at once. And Michigan taxpayers — not the company — would be left with the damage. As a citizen who relies on the Great Lakes for clean water, I strongly oppose this risky drilling plan under the Great Lakes!

I just want to urge you to do all in your power to give absolute priority to the wellbeing of all aspects of the Environment.

Best wishes for the Festive Season.

Martin Bugeja

• This is a bait and switch by Enbridge and the Army Corps of Engineers, after focusing on the tunnel for years.
• Enbridge cannot safely perform HDD drilling in the Straits of Mackinac, their track record of frac-outs in their Line 3 expansion project demonstrates this.
• This project still forces Michigan taxpayers to carry all the risk for a foreign corporation.

Enbridge is a Canadian Corporation using the United States, particularly the Straits of Mackinac, for profit. This puts the Great Lakes at risk to anyone living in the region, or who uses these resources. And for what? Michigan residents do not benefit from this project and continue to take all the risk. Not to mention, there are several biological and cultural assets in the region that will be put in danger by this project.

It is past time to move away from fossil fuels... the weather and climate for each part of our little planet and only home has changed for the negative; drier in what should be moist climates, wild fires more prevalent. Tornadoes and hurricanes stronger, more violent and more frequent. I urge you to abandon the Line 5 project and concentrate on cleaner, CHEAPER forms of energy production. Thank you for your attention.

Enbridge has a very poor record with HDD. They had all sorts of problems with line 3. Enbridge’s safety record, on the whole, has been abysmal. They certainly cannot be trusted to have the public ‘s or the environment’s best interest at heart.
Enbridge needs to comply with the governor’s shut down order, not xo time to look for ways to evade it.
Also, this is pretty sketchy bringing this up with so little notice and chance for public comment!