2025 House Resolution 91

Whereas, The Enbridge Line 5 pipeline is critical for meeting Michigan’s energy needs. It delivers crude oil and natural gas liquids across 645 miles from northern Wisconsin, through the Great Lakes, across both peninsulas of Michigan, and to Ontario. According to Enbridge, Line 5 supplies sixty-five percent of the propane demand in the Upper Peninsula and fifty-five percent of Michigan’s statewide propane needs; and

Whereas, A segment of Line 5 has run under the Straits of Mackinac since 1953. This segment uses “dual” or “twin” pipes to deliver oil and propane throughout Michigan, thus preventing the need to use truckloads and rail cars to move these necessary resources across our state; and

Whereas, Enbridge has proposed building a tunnel underneath the bed of the Straits of Mackinac which would contain a new pipeline to deliver oil and liquified natural gas, replacing the current twin pipeline; and

Whereas, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has filed two lawsuits seeking to shut down Line 5 and its proposed tunnel by voiding the easement, in place since 1953, that allows Enbridge to operate the pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac; and

Whereas, On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued an executive order, entitled Declaring a National Energy Emergency, which seeks to expand the nation’s energy infrastructure in order to meet our pressing energy needs. Critically, the executive order directs federal agencies to exercise their lawful emergency authorities to “expedite the completion of all authorized and appropriated infrastructure, energy, environmental, and natural resources projects”; and

Whereas, In response to the executive order, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has designated projects eligible to receive an emergency permit under the order, and has included Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel project, among others; now, therefore, be it

Resolved by the House of Representatives, That we support President Trump’s policies to increase the nation’s energy infrastructure and security, which have facilitated emergency permitting for the Enbridge Line 5 project; and be it further

Resolved, That copies of this resolution be transmitted to the President of the United States, the President of the United States Senate, the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, and the members of the Michigan congressional delegation.