What do you think the current Line 5 has done for the past 73yrs? Be just used for private profiteering while also utilizing “public” infrastructure to do so?
It’s there to provide energy resources to the UP from the mainland peninsula. You shut that down your half way to starving and freezing your fellow Michiganders in the UP to death. Where the roads are less then reliable during the winter & Wisconsin will most definitely charge an insane amount to try and send energy in from their side of the UP.
Now we get to the why shutting it down is a good thing.
It’s a good thing to shut down the existing pipelines because they’re part of an aging system that’s getting harder & more expensive to maintain. As it crumbles there’s the potential for the lines to burst and spill into our already contaminated lakes making matters much worse than they already are.
However the good things of shutting it down do not out way the necessity of providing efficient and safe energy resources to the UP. Not to ...