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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Lucille Scotti signed 2020-10-16 19:51:39 -0400
Mary Rupert signed via Marsha Walton 2020-10-16 19:49:57 -0400

My life began on the shores of Gills Pier, Norhport, MI, 65 years ago. Over my lifetime, my parents’ generation, my generation, our children’s generation, and now our grandchildren’s generation has had to fight to protect our amazing fresh water Great Lakes. We made many strides over the generations, but all of this could be lost with an oil spill, the magnitude of which would be disastrous. Time, for all generations, is running short to make a difference for our climate. We cannot afford an oil spill. We cannot afford to let the greed of oil magnates like Enbridge put human life at risk.
Joel Studebaker signed 2020-10-16 19:26:13 -0400
Marvin Bishop signed 2020-10-16 19:19:05 -0400
Jerry Michalowicz signed 2020-10-16 18:57:06 -0400
Bridget Stroka signed 2020-10-16 18:30:41 -0400
Karen Malenfant signed 2020-10-16 18:29:07 -0400
Lorene Waybrant signed 2020-10-16 18:24:59 -0400

We can’t afford to have pipelines running through our Great Lakes. Eventually it will leak. And create a disaster. I vote no.
Thomas Van Dis signed 2020-10-16 18:23:44 -0400

Duke Energy and Dominion Energy two of the largest utilities in America have made substantial changes to their capital investment plans to pivot toward renewable energy. Dominion has a huge offshore wind energy project going online soon. BP energy one of the largest exploration and production oil companies in the world has also changed its strategic plan to pivot towards renewable energy. These are only examples. Leaders in the energy business as well as other businesses in America and around the world are beginning to understand that climate change threatens us all and we must make changes now. Enbridge’s proposed tunnel project flies in the face of the facts.

And of course, line 5 is an existential threat to Michigan’s most precious natural resource-the great lakes. This tunnel project simply must be stopped and line 5 must be shut down. It is not essential to Michigan. There are other ways to meet the energy needs of our fellow citizens in the UP. We should not perpetuate this dire threat to our most precious natural resource by facilitating the continued opetation of a dangerous pipeline that exists primarily to provide profits to a Canadian midstream oil company.
Carmen Church signed via Jessyca Stoepker 2020-10-16 18:19:41 -0400
Melissa Harp signed 2020-10-16 18:13:49 -0400
Barbara McGraw signed 2020-10-16 18:12:29 -0400
Julia Stuart signed 2020-10-16 17:37:10 -0400
James Renney signed 2020-10-16 17:29:39 -0400
Charles Carpenter signed 2020-10-16 17:15:19 -0400
Thomas Mead signed 2020-10-16 17:09:50 -0400
Michelle Benningfield signed 2020-10-16 16:36:19 -0400

Please save the Great Lakes.
Freida Pruitt-Craig signed 2020-10-16 16:21:42 -0400
Diane Ebaugh signed via Jessyca Stoepker 2020-10-16 16:06:50 -0400
Jane Schneider signed 2020-10-16 15:59:54 -0400
Lorelei Oye signed 2020-10-16 15:55:24 -0400
gwen hawtof signed 2020-10-16 15:47:13 -0400
Marylynn Hayes signed via Jessyca Stoepker 2020-10-16 15:46:32 -0400
Karen Muncie signed 2020-10-16 15:45:47 -0400

Please do the right thing¡!!
Dale Blum signed 2020-10-16 15:32:42 -0400
Kathy Romeo signed 2020-10-16 15:31:13 -0400
Hannah Mico signed via Jessyca Stoepker 2020-10-16 15:29:11 -0400

Line 5 has loomed over the heads of Michiganders for too many years, as a constant threat to our livelihoods and health. It’s well past the time of action, so I implore you to immediately close Line 5 and prevent the construction of a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac. There is outstanding opposition from Michiganders, and your duty is to us.
Mindy Beaumont signed via Jessyca Stoepker 2020-10-16 15:27:54 -0400
Gail Northcott signed 2020-10-16 15:21:03 -0400
Mary Remer signed 2020-10-16 14:59:58 -0400

We don’t want anyone’s oil in our drinking water.