To the Journal editor:

Enbridge, oh no you don’t. To think you’re going to continue to put the fresh water of the Great Lakes at risk and make the state of Michigan liable for it as the owner of your tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac is not a proposition that makes sense or that we as the citizens of the state should or will approve.

Enbridge continues to claim that this is the best option. Hardly. The best and only acceptable option is to run this product through Canada where it belongs.

We’ve been told at varying times than failure to build the tunnel will create all kinds of economic hardship for the citizen of Michigan. This is simply not true and the studies have been done to support that conclusion. We’ve been told that this tunnel is the safest way to transport these hazardous materials

Of course it isn’t. There never was and never will be a safe way to transport these materials under the surface of the Great Lakes.

The very premise is stupid and insulting. The fresh water of the Great Lakes simply cannot be put at that kind of risk for any purpose. Even if Enbridge had the best safety record as a pipeline operator on the planet, (they don’t), there never will be a way to completely mitigate the catastrophic damage done by a spill of that product.

This project proposal is and must be a hard no. It can never be anything but a hard no. That tunnel, regardless of permits and approvals, will never be built.

Enbridge should should … stop the spin …. and decide once and for all that the fresh waters of the Great Lakes are not a conduit for hazardous materials.

FRANK MALETTE

Gwinn