The June 25 letter, "Line 3 held up by political agendas ," stated that, "The Line 3 Replacement Project ... is 100% funded with private money."
One major cost of such projects that is regularly overlooked or ignored and that usually costs the public is the cost of cleaning up after a failure occurs. Enbridge and most resource "extraction" or "production" companies routinely fail to fund the remediation when (and it is always when, not if) their equipment fails. The Kalamazoo River basin in Michigan is still polluted from an Enbridge spill 10 years ago, Since 1996, this one company has spilled more than 9.4 million gallons of oil in over 1,000 incidents.
The public is still paying for these in cleanup costs; in the losses of land, water, and air quality; and in health issues. Why would anyone expect that Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement Project will be any different?
Donald H. Locker
Chelsea, Michigan
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