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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Robert Baisch signed 2020-10-11 14:59:26 -0400
Dustin Brouwer signed 2020-10-11 14:56:31 -0400

Enbridge has had their chance and blew it too many times, shut it down. In the event they do succeed, I’m glad it’s at least going under the lakebed this time. For the health and livelihood of the people of Michigan, I really hope it works.
Rita TurnerSheerin signed 2020-10-11 14:56:09 -0400

As a child, I always wanted to come to Michigan because of the beautiful and clean Great Lakes. As an adult and Michigan citizen I see that those type of dreams are fading as we watch leaders put industrial interests with their empty promises ahead of protecting the rare fresh water lakes of the Great Lakes. Do not move forward to permit Enbridge or any other entity build a tunnel to transport anything.

Rita Turner-Sheerin
E Paxson signed 2020-10-11 14:51:42 -0400
Catherine Hasse signed 2020-10-11 14:51:23 -0400
Cynthia Rieke signed via charlene fountain 2020-10-11 14:50:54 -0400
Dan Verkerke signed 2020-10-11 14:49:29 -0400
Gerald Link signed 2020-10-11 14:44:49 -0400

Fouling the Great Lakes Basin with an oil spill, a result of Enbridge’s immoral monetary greed is both wrong-headed and a testament to the misguided leadership of principals and shareholders who choose profits over environmental degradation of someone else’s natural resources. The surface oil sheen and dispersed oil droplets in the water column would suffocate and decimate most all invertebrate life supporting both commercial and sport fishing species that provide BILLIONS of $$ to Great Lakes Basin economies, both American and Canadian. Similarly, the fertilized eggs of the many fish species would be smothered as they lay on the bottom or float in the water column while maturing. Hydrocarbon aerosols breathed by oil spill clean-up workers would create chronic respiratory ailments lasting decades and costing BILLIONS in health care costs and human productivity. The remote possibility of remediation and restoration of the Great Lakes watershed within the lifetimes of those basin residents alive today and their children and grandchildren following a catastrophic oil spill is nil. The lost income to municipal, city, state, and provincial governments surrounding the Great Lakes Basin would reduce the region we call ‘home’ to an unrecognizable former “Blue Ribbon” tourist destination. We need to heed the science from our universities and agencies who monitor, study, and protect our eco-systems for the economic and recreational benefits to our populations. I believe the citizens of all states adjacent to the Great Lakes need to vote on the removal of Line 5 from the Straits of Mackinaw to send that message to those who refuse to hear our voices. G.J. Link
Lynne Sheldon signed 2020-10-11 14:44:16 -0400
Pamela Hall signed 2020-10-11 14:43:25 -0400
Marya Fischel signed 2020-10-11 14:41:21 -0400

How long must this fight go on. Please, listen to reason and do not let this long “no solution” project to manifest!
Jill Warren signed 2020-10-11 14:40:41 -0400
Melissa Heithaus signed 2020-10-11 14:35:46 -0400

We need to look to more renewable energies, such as water wind and solar!!!!!
Ed Steinman signed 2020-10-11 14:34:10 -0400

I wouldn’t want to be the one who fell for this bid to keep the Line 5 working for the next several years only to have the pipeline break during that time.
Susan l wheadon signed 2020-10-11 14:31:20 -0400
Rochelle Martinez signed 2020-10-11 14:31:01 -0400
Joan Knipe signed 2020-10-11 14:28:52 -0400
Florence Sandok signed via Henry Homburger 2020-10-11 14:28:26 -0400
Sabrina Garland signed 2020-10-11 14:27:07 -0400
Jann Krupa signed 2020-10-11 14:27:01 -0400
Dixie Wong signed 2020-10-11 14:26:53 -0400
Deb H Cookingham signed 2020-10-11 14:26:34 -0400
Donna McClurkan signed 2020-10-11 14:26:33 -0400
Diane Adams signed via charlene fountain 2020-10-11 14:26:29 -0400
Jan Firebaugh signed 2020-10-11 14:25:50 -0400

Protect our Great Lakes!
Cheryl Campbell signed 2020-10-11 14:24:37 -0400
Wes Hough signed 2020-10-11 14:24:28 -0400
Robert Williams signed 2020-10-11 14:24:20 -0400
Monica Dutmers signed 2020-10-11 14:23:59 -0400

Stop endangering the Great Lakes. This pipeline/tunnel is a disaster in the making. Do not put corporate interests above the people!
Darlene Baker signed 2020-10-11 14:23:42 -0400