Let Governor Snyder Know You Care

michael patterson

Stop this insanity before it’s too late !!

It was unbelievably stupid for a pipeline to e allowed anywhere near the great lakes EVER…but now that the world REALIZES how precious this reserve of fresh water is it is more stupid to not protect it to the utmost of our ability

water is sacred. Beyond me why our people, the original first nations, are treated with such hatred and disrespect.

I have lived through the trauma of the line 6B replacements long the “easement” across our driveway and the front yard of our pristine 10 acre country residence in Oakland. Enbridge largely presented itself as an insensitive, bullying Big Business that cared little for the months and months of disruption to the lives of landowners along line 6B or to the environmental disruption it left in its wake [I.e., While compensating landowners minimum payment for use of the “easement” through their properties [easements generally purchased from farmers in the 1960’s], Canadian owned Enbridge created a 60 ft wide path (easement) of devastation, leaving a clear view of ground up earth stretching from southwest to northeast as far as the eye could see —a surreal panorama of downed forest areas, plowed over homeowners’ landscaping and farmers’s fields, removed farmer’s fences (later replaced), and disturbed wetlands].


The above paints a picture of the Canadian owned Enbridge company that is defending its aged, “decaying”, and technically inadequate pipeline that stretches across the precious waters of the Mackinac Straits in order to transport their NOT “Crude Oil” for which the pipeline was designed, but thick, corrosive “Tar Sand Oil”. From dealing with Enbridge, my “take” on their “Mission Statement” is “Profits above All Else”. And they maintain a small army of attorneys to deal with any “accidents” that may threaten their Mission.


Canadian Owned—Tar Sand Oil—Exploiting the US environment and citizens—Very Questionable Ethics and Practices——-Very Sad that Our Government Representatives permit such Obvious Risk to our treasured natural resources and citizen health to continue.


Ellie Vance

Water is life!