It also submitted a notice seeking to transfer the state's suit to the federal court. Vern Yu, the company's president for liquids pipelines, said the state should "stop playing politics with the energy needs and anxieties of U.S. and Canadian consumers and businesses that depend on Line 5." Whitmer spokeswoman Tiffany Brown said Enbridge's suit "brazenly defies the people of Michigan and their right to protect the Great Lakes from a catastrophic oil spill." "In short, Enbridge claims it can continue to pump oil through the Straits of Mackinac indefinitely, posing enormous risk to our economy and way of life — and that the people of Michigan have no say in the matter," Brown said. Line 5 moves about 23 million gallons (87 million liters) of oil and natural gas liquids daily between Superior, Wisconsin, and Sarnia, Ontario, traversing parts of northern Michigan and Wisconsin. The underwater section beneath the straits is divided into two pipes.