EGLE: No Tunnel Petition

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Sign this petition calling on the protection of the Great Lakes, the climate, and of all Michiganders.

Tell the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes & Energy (EGLE) to deny Enbridge permits to construct a fossil fuel tunnel through the Great Lakes. Science demands that we shift to using clean energy now. Serious flaws in the permits put us all at risk.

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We'll send your signature to EGLE before the October 19 deadline for public comment on the Enbridge tunnel permit.

UPDATE - Monday, Oct 19, 11:00 PM: Signatures here will no longer be delivered to EGLE. You can still submit a comment by visiting this comment page and submitting an email by 11:59 PM tonight.

To the Michigan Department of Environment, Great Lakes & Energy (EGLE):

I urge you to reject Enbridge Energy’s application for permission to relocate its pipelines into an oil tunnel through the bottomlands of the Great Lakes. This is not simply a relocation - it is new fossil fuel infrastructure.

Building an oil tunnel through the Straits of Mackinac would continue to endanger public trust waters and bottomlands at the Straits, and would continue the risk to our waters posed by Line 5's other 400-plus water crossings. Feasible and prudent alternatives to the energy currently provided by Line 5 exist - this project is not in the public's interest.

The science is clear that to avoid significantly worsening impacts of climate change, we must rapidly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, including from the burning of fossil fuels. Allowing Enbridge to build a new pipeline that can transport oil for up to 99 years through our state will exacerbate climate change, the impacts of which are already harming our state and its residents.

Building an oil tunnel would take five or more years at a time when the existing pipeline may keep operating, extending the risk of a devastating oil spill into the Great Lakes and exposing Michiganders to a heightened risk of contaminated drinking water, endangered livelihoods, and lost access to recreational activities.

I ask that you protect our Great Lakes, our state, and our families from the worsening impacts of climate change by rejecting this application.

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Jim Mitchell signed 2020-10-17 08:11:41 -0400
Dianne Brainard signed 2020-10-17 07:49:45 -0400
Lori Bonifas signed 2020-10-17 04:36:50 -0400
Mary Acker signed 2020-10-17 01:24:37 -0400
Jack Sovereign signed 2020-10-17 01:13:46 -0400
Judith And Daniel Dickinson signed 2020-10-17 00:47:04 -0400

How does this pipeline fit with Michigan’s renewable energy initiative? It doesn’t. EGLE is flirting with disaster if they approve this pipeline.
Diane Collins signed 2020-10-17 00:22:39 -0400
Marlene Harris signed 2020-10-17 00:02:17 -0400
@nanjopo tweeted link to this page. 2020-10-17 00:02:07 -0400
Do you love an oil-free Great Lakes? They're under threat, you know. Join me and sign this petition calling on @MichiganEGLE and @EGLEDirector to reject the Enbridge Line 5 Oil Tunnel. #NoTunnel #SDL5 https://www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/egle_no_tunnel_petition?recruiter_id=29217
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Nancy Potter signed 2020-10-17 00:01:54 -0400
Jennie Hoffmann signed via Jessyca Stoepker 2020-10-16 23:36:51 -0400

The financial obligation we the people of MI will hold makes this Lame Duck Republican idea repulsive to its core. The lake water taken and the slurry mixed in the return of this water makes the tunnel project a blatant snow job. Who would do this to our great lakes?
Hanin Masboob signed 2020-10-16 22:59:10 -0400

We’re supposed to be working towards environmental stewardship; to protect, preserve, conserve and maintain our biodiversity. Not promote another pro-fossil fuel destruction cocktail. How did you learn nothing from the major oil spills? BP? XL pipeline? Why must we keep having these discussions?
Kate Satonin signed 2020-10-16 22:57:32 -0400

You are murdering our children’s future
Marialyce Zeerip signed 2020-10-16 22:56:33 -0400
Claudia Palmer signed 2020-10-16 22:53:09 -0400

Stop line
Lauri Mannion signed 2020-10-16 22:38:55 -0400
Scott Beckton signed 2020-10-16 22:20:50 -0400
Stephanie Kay signed via Elizabeth Ploghoft 2020-10-16 22:15:55 -0400
Michael Robold signed 2020-10-16 21:25:49 -0400
Linda Staffulani signed 2020-10-16 21:17:02 -0400

This has to stop 🛑. We have to fight to keep our water clean .
Elizabeth Ploghoft signed 2020-10-16 21:00:46 -0400
Cecilia Trudeau signed 2020-10-16 21:00:15 -0400
Mary Ann Baier signed 2020-10-16 20:40:06 -0400
Carol Ann Stein signed 2020-10-16 20:25:19 -0400
Laura Beal signed 2020-10-16 20:12:33 -0400

Please protect our Great Lakes!
Kelly Dumas signed 2020-10-16 20:03:13 -0400

This new discovery of a potential ancient archeologic changes everything and all work must be paused until it is thoroughly explored.
Linda McGill signed 2020-10-16 19:59:04 -0400

Oil and water do not mix. This pipeline is a catastrophy waiting to happen. Enbridge has had too many accidents! NO pipeline, no tunnel.
Vicki Wiederhold signed 2020-10-16 19:58:55 -0400

I lived through the horrible oil spill in 2010 that ruined the Kalamazoo River. I will never forget the damage and suffering that it caused. I wouldn’t wish that on my worst enemy. We MUST protect our Great Lakes!
Susan Frahm signed 2020-10-16 19:57:00 -0400
Ted Anderson signed 2020-10-16 19:54:42 -0400