BIG UPDATE:
The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) ruled on April 21, 2021, to include climate evidence in their review of Enbridge's proposed Line 5 oil tunnel!
This is a historic decision. The first time greenhouse gases will be included in a review under the Michigan Environmental Protection Act. We will now be able to provide evidence not only about the climate impacts of the construction of the tunnel, but also the products the pipeline carries.
Thank you to the 120 businesses and organizations and the more than 2000 people who signed our letter urging the Commissioners to include climate change.
Thanks to you and the tireless actions of thousands of others, we've won a major step in the fight to prevent an oil tunnel and fight climate change and pollution! We will continue to work with our partners at the Environmental Law & Policy Center and expert witnesses to present this evidence.
For more information, check out our press release and the video below about the Commission's decision.
Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for helping us win this monumental decision!
Allowing Enbridge to build a massive oil tunnel - and to restart the Line 5 oil pipeline that Gov. Whitmer has ordered shut down - will have significant impacts on our climate and our state. Building this oil tunnel at a time when scientists say we must cut climate emissions by 45% this decade is a terrible idea, and Enbridge has been fighting to keep all evidence about climate change from even being considered. In the midst of the burgeoning climate crisis, it would be irresponsible to allow Enbridge to narrow the scope of the review of this project so severely that the most important issues are excluded. We urge you to include evidence about climate change, other significant environmental risks, and public need in your review of Enbridge’s proposed oil tunnel project.
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Tom Irish
Tom Irish
You must allow evidence of the near- and long-term effects of fossil fuel emissions to be considered prior to your decisions relative to Enbridge.
Our property abuts the Sargent Sand Company mine north of Ludington. Since 2010, our property has been affected adversely by the mine operations. The removal of more than 10 million tons of pristine coastal sand dunes has created enormous and negative, immediate and long-lasting, impacts. The sands have been used mostly for hydraulic fracturing, mostly in the Marcellus Formation. The lost sands degrade local landscapes and reduce sustainable, recreation-based economic opportunities. The carbon emissions amplified by injection of these sands underground have created changes in our local climate, which are slowly but surely raising lake levels, changing lake chemistries, and most of all increasing the types and populations of tree pests and diseases: our local forests have seen dramatic, negative impacts from beech, ash, oak, maple, and now hemlock disease/insect vectors. We have paid thousands of dollars on our four acres for ash tree removal over the past five years alone.
You cannot legally or morally ignore these impacts. Please do your duty.
Sincerely,
Albert K Henning, PhD
3074 Piney Ridge Road
Ludington, MI 49431
Kalamazoo River was severely contaminated in 2010 when one of their pipelines ruptured. Took 5 yrs to clean up and I don’t trust that this is 100% cleaned. Other states like Okhio and Kentucky have had their fair share of Enbridge disasters.
The Great Lakes is Michigan’s treasures natural resource. It must remain this way now and for future generations.
I say NO TO ENBRIDGE AND THEIR SHOTTY PIPELINES!