Just the name — Line 5 — can elicit polarizing emotions.
To some, Enbridge Inc.’s pipeline is an environmental roll of the dice, what Michelle Woodhouse, the program manager of water for Environmental Defence Canada, calls “gambling with the world’s largest freshwater system.”
To others, it’s a safe way to move 22 million gallons of crude oil and natural gas liquids every day — “energizing Michigan since 1953,” as Enbridge’s website boasts.