Credit U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will take public comment through December 17 on Enbridge Energy's new permit application for a tunnel to encase a replacement section of Line 5, which runs through the Straits of Mackinac.
At the same time, there's a legal battle between Enbridge and the state of Michigan, after Governor Gretchen Whitmer said in November she's revoking Enbridge's easement for the pipeline.
Mike Shriberg is with the National Wildlife Foundation.
He says the pipeline threatens vulnerable waters held in the public trust.
"There's very solid ground to say that Line 5 right now is in violation of the public trust," says Shriberg. "Because there's very actual little public benefit and there's a huge public cost if there is a spill."