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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Ann Rogers signed 2020-10-16 11:51:49 -0400

Protect the most precious fresh water resource in the world !

It is irreplaceable and fragile.
Michael Ray signed 2020-10-16 11:24:45 -0400
Leslie Mitchell signed 2020-10-16 11:12:45 -0400

I wouldn’t trust Enbridge with my life. It has been proven time after time Enbridge is dishonest.
@Gai9 tweeted link to this page. 2020-10-16 11:11:13 -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=82594
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Gail Jacobson signed 2020-10-16 11:10:53 -0400
Alta Walters signed 2020-10-16 11:00:53 -0400

Great Lakes water is the foundation of what this state has. Protect it. Preserve it.
Lisa Patrell signed 2020-10-16 11:00:00 -0400

sham of Public Hearings—how can EGLE claim that obligation is fulfilled when tunnel design is complete and does not match permit. Morever the permit does not reflect known geological facts. Further it is now known that false reports were filed by Enbridge. The Public is not informed and cannot make fully informed comments under these circumstances.
Sharon Miller signed 2020-10-16 10:59:19 -0400
Becky Eisinger signed 2020-10-16 10:56:50 -0400
Carol Byrd signed 2020-10-16 10:46:34 -0400
Ronnie Shideler signed 2020-10-16 10:37:01 -0400
Susan Furda signed 2020-10-16 10:36:39 -0400
Mary Solo signed 2020-10-16 10:33:51 -0400

Clean Energy needs to be put in place now.
Sally Sophia signed 2020-10-16 10:29:32 -0400
Jane Curry signed 2020-10-16 10:24:25 -0400
Marcia Curran signed 2020-10-16 10:14:45 -0400

Keep up this good work!!! The tunnel represents old think and lacks any attempt to recognize the best understanding of what the future needs.
Tim P Johnson signed 2020-10-16 10:12:14 -0400
Tom Emmott signed 2020-10-16 10:11:19 -0400

Greed has no boundaries. Shut down the ancient pipeline and no to the tunnel.
Steven Smiley signed 2020-10-16 10:09:21 -0400
Roger C Henderson signed 2020-10-16 10:08:29 -0400

Enbridge had already proven how bad they are at maintaining their pipelines! They cannot be trusted.
Jeannie Bohley signed 2020-10-16 10:08:20 -0400
Ann Marie Kendrick signed 2020-10-16 10:06:15 -0400

I live by the Kalamazoo River, and it has not been the same since the tar sands oil leaked into it. No longer see some of the wildlife—dabbling ducks, for instance—that I saw pre-leak. I shudder to think what could happen to our Lakes and coastline.
Janice Harding signed 2020-10-16 10:05:24 -0400

Please protect our Great Lakes and do not put them at risk for profit! They are our state’s greatest treasure.
Janis Frazee signed 2020-10-16 10:04:42 -0400
Shirley Johns signed 2020-10-16 10:03:42 -0400
William Edwards signed 2020-10-16 10:03:18 -0400
Susan Shink signed 2020-10-16 09:57:27 -0400

We need to protect the Great Lakes and switch to renewables now. Enbridge should invest money they would spend on this tunnel on renewables, thus providing clean energy and clean jobs.
Deni Scrudato signed 2020-10-16 09:54:50 -0400
Frank Mester signed 2020-10-16 09:54:39 -0400
Charles Dildine signed 2020-10-16 09:52:13 -0400

the great lake ecosystem is one of the largest fresh water environment in the world. To put this at risk for the sake of exacerbating climate change and lining the egocentric executives pockets is not a plausible reason to potentially jeopardize the value of this fresh water ecosystem.