Supplemental Draft EIS Comments

I am opposed to the recent alternative submitted by Enbridge regarding Line 5. The most sound action is to decommission Line 5, which would eliminate all of the negative impacts of a potential leak of the aging pipeline, the violation of treaty rights of First Nation people when using their land as a dumping ground, and environmental hazards from horizontal drilling from a company with a poor record. The Great Lakes water source is too vital to the health of humans, plants and animals to risk the hazards from Enbridge, a foreign company. Neither the people of Michigan, the entire U.S., nor our neighbors in Canada and First Nations should be subject to the harm that is inevitable. There has been too much time, expense and effort already spent on Enbridge's proposals for transporting oil that is not needed nor used in Michigan and which would continue to hasten climate change.

Deny Enbridge's permit(s).

The application from Enbridge for the Line 5 Replacement Project should be denied.

Enbridge has demonstrated an inability to successfully manage other projects that used the HDD process. The multiple unintended frack outs in their Line 3 Project are ample demonstration of their sorry track record in this regard. In dozens of instances, drilling fluid was released into waterways with sometimes catastrophic results to the aquatic life in the affected waterways and adjacent wetlands. Enbridge also has a history of failing to report these drilling fluid releases when they occur and which are required by state and federal statutes. Further, there currently are no remediation processes that can restore the environments that are damaged by these drilling fluid releases.

In addition, the permitting assigns all of the financial risk from drilling and pipeline failures on to the taxpayers of Michigan, including all costs associated with damage mitigation and environmental restoration.

In summation, you have a foreign owned pipeline company with a long history of environmental damage; broken promises; repeated failures to properly manage planning, preparation, construction and maintenance of multiple pipelines. This company now wants to build a new pipeline through some of the most environmentally sensitive areas of our country. Approving this application would be a fool's errand, please don't do it.

Michigan owes everything to the Great Lakes… its economy, its culture and its quality of life. To jeopardize this in the hands of a company with the track record of Enbridge is beyond irresponsible. You know the games Enbridge plays… don’t be a part of them by circumventing your responsibility of due diligence. When weighing the domino environmental and economic costs of yet another Enbridge failure vs. benefits which accrue primarily to them, reason must conclude that a conduit of poison across any Great Lake, regardless of the form it takes, is absurd.

it seems that at every roadblock, the pipeline company comes up with a what if! 1st off they have the worst safety record of any company, their leak into the Kalamazoo river a few years ago, still is NOT back to the condition it was b4 the leak, IF it will ever get there, we as a country are trying to get away from fossil fuels, this is basically a shortcut to Windsor, our now president wants to open more drilling in the USA, plus with the 25% import tax, how much is going to be of use to us? how can you let a foreign country try to run our systems, what about their big oil leak in WI not long ago that they didn't know happened until millions of gallons had leaked, this is a disaster in the making, we use the lakes for drinking water and fishing etc., not sure about you, but I couldn't see myself drinking oil or eating oil contaminated fish, is this oil going to benefit us in any way? there is so much more I could write about, but time is fleeting!

This project is fraught with red flags. It will endanger one of the largest areas of fresh water that millions depend on. Enbridge isn’t even a US company. They have a very poor track record on oil spills & have no expertise if a spill should occur under ice. There are other less concerning alternatives. Please reject this outrageously dangerous project. It will be catastrophic not only to the water but to fishing & tourism.

Let's not intentionally add potential disasters to our environment.

It's time to get the oil pipeline and all efforts to drill and put oil in the water, away from the Straits of Mackinac. Have Enbridge truck their oil. That's what bridges are for.

The Great Lakes provide fresh water to more than 40 Million people in 2 countries--the United States of America and Canada. These lakes are the largest collection of surface fresh water on Earth!

I've always lived relatively near the Great Lakes.
In fact, for a number of years, I lived on Newberry Blvd., just 2-3 blocks from Lake Park in Milwaukee, WI. I frequently walked along Lake Michigan's shore. I would be enraged by contamination/pollution getting dumped into the Great Lakes because some foreign corporation's greedy dredging and mining in the Great Lakes watershed!

As a resident of Michigan who cares deeply for the well being of our state and of the Great Lakes that surround it, I urge the Army Corps of Engineers not to permit a Canadian company to put in any new pipeline nor to reroute existing pipelines under the Great Lakes.

No matter how it is installed--via horizontal drilling or by digging a tunnel--a pipeline or set of pipelines carries greater risk to the environment and people of Michigan than it carries promise of benefit. Those benefiting would be only the shareholders of a foreign company who would get to run their toxic material through our state and under the Straits of our Great Lakes.

As we can see in the world around us, a transition is taking place away from fossil fuels. Our country and our state are under no obligation to subsidize the transmission of an outdated type of fuel just so a Canadian company can profit for a longer time than it would otherwise be able to. Enbridge needs to face the fact that the world is changing and that it needs to assume the risks of the outdated type of energy it is sending through pipelines.

The horizontal drilling would massively disturb the areas around the Straits--to what end? Prolonging profits for a foreign company to the detriment of Michigan residents and our natural resources--and the tourism on which that area of the state depends.

Enbridge has a bad safety record--I live near the Kalamazoo River so I know this firsthand. The company also has a history of "frac-outs" in its expansion of Line 3, which bodes ill for performing horizontal drilling in the Straits of Mackinac.

Given that the proposed horizontal drilling project still forces Michigan taxpayers to carry all the risk for a foreign corporation, I urge you not to permit this drilling nor the continuation of this pipeline in any form.

The proposed project carries heavy risks to the environment, would damage the areas around the Straits, would negatively affect tourism, and is not needed by the residents of Michigan.

The only way to avoid an "accident" of debris spilling into the world's largest source of freshwater is to prevent Enbridge or any corporation to use the Great Lakes, including any and all access of any means. Protect our waterways and do not allow ANY use that allows for any possibility of harm. Our resources are too precious for corporation profit, domestic or international.