LANSING, MI (MPRN)-- A state board plans to review problems with Enbridge Energy’s Line Five oil and gas pipeline at a meeting Monday.
The Michigan Pipeline Safety Advisory Board is expected to discuss what should be done after portions of a protective coating were accidentally removed from a stretch of the oil and gas pipe system that runs beneath the Straits of Mackinac.
Nick Assendelft is the safety board’s spokesman.
“I think the discussion will be on how to move forward with on that, and how to work with Enbridge to get those coatings repaired,” he says.
The board is also expected to send a letter to US Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. It asks for permission to create a statewide map and make it available online.
Valerie Brader is the director of the Michigan Agency for Energy and co-chair of the pipeline safety board.
“It would be really convenient if you could just go online and see a map. Right? Here’s where it is. Here’s where it crosses. Here’s how close it gets to my house, or my kid’s school, or whatever,” she says.
Enbridge says the repairs are supposed to begin this week.
