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Building a tunnel for Enbridge Line 5 through the Straits of Mackinac is not a solution to protect the Great Lakes, 400 other water bodies, including Lake Michigan, or our dangerously overheating climate.

Oil BurnSign to protect the Great Lakes from *another Line 5 oil spill

Dear Gov. Whitmer:

An oil tunnel through the public bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac won’t protect the Great Lakes from a 645-mile long, 73-year-old Line 5 crude oil pipeline that has leaked at least 33 times into Michigan's environment. Even when its oil isn't spilling into the water, it adds to our climate crisis when burned by spilling carbon into the atmosphere every day. The time to end the threat of a catastrophic oil pipeline rupture is now. Instead of leaving a vulnerable and hazardous oil pipeline operating in the Mackinac Straits for years while trusting a dishonest Enbridge to protect the Great Lakes, I support your action to revoke the Line 5 easement and urge you to prevent an oil tunnel from being constructed.

* Yes, Enbridge Line 5 has already spilled 33 times and 1.1 million gallons.

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  • Kimberlee Claus
    signed 2019-09-10 10:12:07 -0400
  • Elsie Dakota
    signed 2019-09-10 10:11:25 -0400
  • Steve Roth
    signed 2019-09-10 10:05:45 -0400
  • Libby Ash
    signed 2019-09-10 10:04:03 -0400
  • Karen Whitman
    signed 2019-09-10 10:01:08 -0400
  • Gwen Baarstad
    signed 2019-09-10 10:00:40 -0400
  • Janice Zychowicz
    signed 2019-09-10 09:55:09 -0400
  • Lon Herman
    signed 2019-09-10 09:51:41 -0400
    Line 5 represents extreme risk to the Great Lakes and virtually no economic benefit while adding to the Climate Change Crisis! It must be Shut Down,Now!
  • nancy jarvis
    signed 2019-09-10 09:50:31 -0400
    nancy jarvis
  • Wendy Thoman
    signed via 2019-09-10 09:48:26 -0400
  • Lawrence Jansen
    signed via 2019-09-10 09:48:25 -0400
    Lawrence Jansen
  • Julie Sekmistrz
    signed 2019-09-10 09:47:38 -0400
  • Robert Hove
    signed 2019-09-10 09:41:42 -0400
  • Thomas Gerou
    signed 2019-09-10 09:41:39 -0400
  • Carol RAll
    signed 2019-09-10 09:37:33 -0400
  • Judith Brock
    signed 2019-09-10 09:34:22 -0400
    Please do not allow special interests money ‘buy’ our Great Lakes! It is too important to let this happen.
  • Martin Kimpston
    signed 2019-09-10 09:33:21 -0400
  • Ralph Findley
    signed 2019-09-10 09:32:32 -0400
  • Mary Rodgers
    signed 2019-09-10 09:27:15 -0400
    For Michigan, this tunnel is very high risk, with little reward. It is an obvious decision – no to Line %!
  • Roger Webster
    signed 2019-09-10 09:24:58 -0400
  • Elizabeth Eustis-Turf
    signed 2019-09-10 09:24:26 -0400
  • Greg Roll
    signed 2019-09-10 09:21:05 -0400
    There are viable energy alternatives to pumping oil through a tunnel beneath the iconic Straits of Mackinac. Enbridge has made enormous profits over the last decades but has not spent more money on advertisements than on safety and environmental precautions. The Kalamazoo River spill was one of the worst inland waterway debacles in history and they wanted MIchigan taxpayers to pick up the clean-up tab. Enough.
  • Kathy Frederick
    signed 2019-09-10 09:19:36 -0400
    Enbridge is too powerful. Shut them down. They are not trustworthy.
  • Charlie Simonds
    signed 2019-09-10 09:19:34 -0400
  • Gregory Alexander
    signed 2019-09-10 09:17:35 -0400
    From my calculations if they were to build a tunnel and it got flooded with oil it will only take less then five hours to fully engulf with over 4.5 million gallons of crude oil!! So we all need to say no to the Tunnel l, to line 5 and governor Whitmer for being easily Influenced by Enbridge’s slimy greasy lobbyists! Shame on both of them !!
  • Shirley Burga
    signed 2019-09-10 09:12:45 -0400
  • Kim Butwell
    signed via 2019-09-10 09:12:28 -0400
    Keep the promise you made to protect our waters!
  • Lee Engstrom
    signed 2019-09-10 09:07:45 -0400
  • Dudley Jordan
    signed 2019-09-10 09:07:19 -0400
  • Matt Heintzkill
    signed 2019-09-10 09:05:05 -0400

IMAGE of Mighty Mac & Blue Ice courtesy of Rachel Kramer via Flickr

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