pdf 1953 Lakehead/Enbridge Easement For Pipeline

STRAITS OF MACKINAC PIPE LlNE EASEMENT: CONSERVATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN TO LAXEHEAD PIPE LINE COMPANY, INC.

Authors: Wayland Osgood, Deputy Director

Author Affiliation: State of Michigan, Conservation Commission

Journal: Executed Conveyance Easement (later acquired by Enbridge Energy); 4/23/1953

Abstract: The Conservation Commission was of the opinion that a proposed pipe line system under the Straits of Mackinac would be of benefit to all of the people of the State of Michigan and in furtherance of the public welfare in 1953.

For the sum of $2450, and a promise that the grantee "shall exercise the due care of a reasonably prudent person for the safety and welfare of all persons and of all public and private property, shall comply with all laws of the State of Michigan and of the Federal Government..."

The people of the State of Michigan are protected by "a Comprehensive Bodily Injury and Property Damage Liability policy, bond or surety, in form and substance acceptable to Grantor in the sum or at least One Million Dollars ($1,000,000.00), covering the liability herein imposed upon Grantee."