We All Want to Protect Our Environment
It’s time to stop playing politics with our energy supply.
The Whitmer administration’s attempt to revoke the valid easement agreement for Enbridge’s Line 5 at the Straits of Mackinac would create an unnecessary energy crisis at the height of a global pandemic and deepen the economic downturn.
If successful, the Governor’s action means immediate regional energy supply shortages and higher energy prices – as well as increased oil barge activity in the Great Lakes.
There is no credible alternative plan to replace the energy Line 5 provides.
Michigan residents, hospitals and businesses need a reliable, affordable supply of energy. Life without Line 5 will be challenging.
Energy and infrastructure is truly regional. We rely on our neighboring states.
Enbridge is committed to meeting Michigan’s energy needs.
Life without Line 5 means higher propane prices and heating bills.
Michigan has the highest rate of residential propane consumption in the entire country and a shutdown would mean a propane shortage of 756,000 gallons per day and higher prices. Michigan residents, especially those with lower incomes, can’t afford higher energy prices.
It means energy shortages for homes and businesses.
Michigan has the highest rate of residential propane consumption in the entire country and a shutdown would mean a propane shortage of 756,000 gallons per day and higher prices. Michigan residents, especially those with lower incomes, can’t afford higher energy prices.
It also means higher emissions as the oil and gas will be moved on barges, trucks and trains.
Moving the oil and gas transported in Line 5 onto barges, trucks and trains means more emissions overall and increased probability of spills. Renewable energy, and the infrastructure to transport it to you, is not a realistic alternative to Line 5 – it will take decades to build this energy infrastructure, and oil and gas to construct it.
A Matter of Fact: Line 5 safe, critical for communities in Michigan, Ohio, Ontario and Quebec
Pipeline has operated between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron for 68 years without a single leak. Click on the icon and check out this article. Just love facts.
Pipeline Politics Threatens Energy Up North - 5- 18 -21
Michigan’s Whitmer tries to shut down a fuel artery to Canada.
Editorial Detroit News - 2-23-21
Michigan doesn't have a propane shortage, despite Gov. Gretchen Whitmer's declaration of an energy emergency over the weekend. But it risks having one if the governor gets her way on shutting down the Line 5 petroleum pipeline.
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