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Opponents of Enbridge’s (NYSE:ENB) plan to reroute its Line 5 pipeline across the Dangerous River tribe’s reservation stated Wednesday they’ll submit greater than 150K feedback to federal regulators towards the mission.
Environmentalists and tribal leaders are urging the U.S. Military Corps of Engineers to disclaim a Clear Water Act allow for Enbridge’s (ENB) $450M plan to construct a brand new 30-inch phase of Line 5 that will run 41 miles across the reservation and includes greater than 200 waterway crossings.
“This reroute is not an answer,” says an legal professional at Earthjustice who’s representing the Dangerous River Band, based on S&P World. “In reality, it actually extends the risks of the pipeline and will increase the specter of a devastating oil spill.”
Enbridge (ENB) says Line 5 is secure after spending billions of {dollars} upgrading know-how and protocols because the 2010 spill that launched greater than 1.2M gallons of oil into the Kalamazoo River.
A shutdown would threat the closure of refineries in Ohio and propane fractionators in Wisconsin and Michigan, the corporate informed S&P World.
The pipeline is the primary supply of propane to Ontario, supplying two-thirds of the province’s oil wants and half the feedstock wanted for its refineries use to make gasoline, whereas additionally supplying 55% of Michigan’s oil demand with gentle crude oil, gentle artificial crude and pure fuel liquids which are refined into propane.
