Michigan Upper Peninsula in Winter

CEA’s Brydon Ross and Chris Ventura discussed the consumer benefits of pipelines in the context of energy affordability and environmental safety in the state of Michigan with The Peninsula.

Critical energy infrastructure, such as Enbridge Inc.’s Line 5 pipeline that safely helps satisfy the demand for propane in the Upper Peninsula, underpins Michigan’s economy, supplies stable jobs and holds energy costs down for families, energy advocates say. A frequent target of anti-pipeline rhetoric, the 64-year-old Line 5 runs under the Straits of Mackinac connecting Lake Michigan and Lake Huron. The dual pipelines, which transport light crude oil and natural gas liquids, have never experienced a leak.

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