Consider the alternative. If we were to transport the same amount of product by tanker truck, an estimated 2,100 trucks would need to travel east every day on US-2 from Superior to transport products currently carried by Line 5.

From wildlife protection strategies, to Horizontal Directional Drilling, to using pre-existing corridors of activity, to habitat restoration, we work hard to minimize our long-term impact to land along our pipeline routes.

We have an important role to play in providing access to cleaner energy. That role involves contributing to GHG emission reductions goals and seeking new and improved ways to deliver energy safely, responsibly and sustainably.

We take care to limit our footprint, and actively manage potential effects on communities and the environment, as we build our pipeline projects.

That’s what Superior, WI business leader Todd says about Line 5. Moving product by truck or rail “is just going to mean higher prices and higher costs . . . a pipeline is the safest, most economical way to transport these energy fuels.”

Chris, who delivers propane to communities, says propane “makes it possible” to live and work in northern Wisconsin. Chris supports the Line 5 Wisconsin Segment Relocation Project: “It’s been proven the safest way to move petroleum product, by far, is a pipe.”

Joe, an engineer with Enbridge, was born in Mellen and still has a family cabin in the area “to reconnect with the woods.” Joe takes pride in ensuring safety, and notes the L5WSRP has earned 100% landowner approval.

Kelly and her husband Doug own and operate a hobby farm on the Minnesota-Wisconsin border, with Enbridge pipelines crossing their property. “I have found all the land agents to be really easy to work with,” says Kelly.

“We’re practicing for the scenarios that we hope will never happen.” Chief Scott Gordon of the Superior, WI, Fire Department says he knows of no other mutual aid groups with emergency response preparedness like the Superior Petroleum Partnership.

Hayward, Wisconsin has hosted the Lumberjack World Championships every year since 1960, with Enbridge its title sponsor for more than a decade. D.J., Chief of Competition for the annual showcase event, recalls that Enbridge stepped in to save the event during the economic downturn of 2009. “We were in some really rocky waters,” he says. “That relationship (with Enbridge) made this event that much better.”

Joe Barabe is Mayor of Mellen, Wisconsin, “a little city that works.” Joe talks about Enbridge’s $1.5-million purchase of five acres of city land for our Line 5 Segment Relocation Project, and how those funds will benefit multiple projects in Mellen. “It’s been win, win, win across the board,” he says.

A grant from the Enbridge Safe Community First Responder program has paid for an Automated External Defibrillator (AED) to be placed in each of the Iron County Sheriff’s Department’s 11 squad cars in Hurley, WI. “The AEDs now arrive with the deputies on patrol, and can be used anytime we respond to a medical emergency,” says Sheriff Paul Samardich.

Copper Falls State Park is a 600-acre jewel in northern Wisconsin. A pair of Enbridge grants will help connect local communities to this majestic park by establishing a new walking and cycling trail: “We can all work together to create a project that we can all be proud of—that all of us can use.”