EDITOR:

Line 5: Tom Grant makes some excellent points regarding Line 5 first. “The current plant line is getting old (75 years) under the Straits of Mackinac.” “At the present time the pipelines are okay unless another boat drops anchor and causes a hole. A freighter did in fact snag the pipeline with its anchor already.

Tom also states, “at the present time, if the pipelines sprung a leak, skilled divers would need to be flown in to repair the pipeline.” How could “skilled divers” be flown in during “a bad weather storm with wind and snow and the bridge is shut down for a day or two?”

Did the oil spill that occurred in the Gulf of Mexico by BP Petroleum and oil spills on California coast only last a day or two?

With the quantity of oil surging through these pipelines on a daily basis, the amount of damage to our precious world supply of fresh water would be a disaster to our inland ocean sea.

One wonders what idiot politicians 75 years ago thought this was a great idea?

Since most politicians are usually motivated by money and political power who was responsible for this hair-brain idea affecting multiple Great Lake states?

Just think what the effects would be to our quality of life during an oil spill. No fresh drinking water, business losses to restaurants, motels, cruise ships, tourism, fishing tournaments, recreation, wildlife habit, wetlands, fish and wildlife; basically every aspect of our lives.

The Great Lakes provide us with so many gifts and enhance our quality of life we, as the stewards of the earth, have a duty and obligation to preserve and protect one of the greatest wonders of the world, our fresh water inland sea. For future generations to enjoy.

We as a civilization have no right to destroy what God created.

Decisions regarding our living planet cannot base on greed or profit whether by an individual or a company like BP Petroleum or Canadian Enbridge.

The time to stop this insanity is now before an oil spill, not after it is too late and all the damage has been done.

In the quest for profits, how rich are these people once they have died?

Does this afford them a larger tombstone than anyone else?

Profits are temporary like life itself.

If we love and cherish what God created, including ourselves.

We will fight to preserve and protect our beautiful blue Earth, “The Earth does not belong to us we belong to the Earth.”

Diana Peach

Cedar River