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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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  • Ilene Kazak
    signed via 2020-01-05 21:46:58 -0500
    The pipelines would better serve our needs if they transported water to dry fire-prone areas instead of oil. A mommoth undertaking, to be sure, but far more valuable than producing more oil as we shift to a clean economy.
  • Elaine Hendrickson
    signed via 2020-01-05 21:33:42 -0500
    This would be asking for more danger for the environment!
  • Saundra McNinch
    signed via 2020-01-05 21:27:10 -0500
  • Amanda Conley
    signed 2020-01-05 21:13:13 -0500
  • Pam Simmons
    signed via 2020-01-05 21:07:41 -0500
    The Great Lakes are our sparkling diamonds and should be guarded as any valuable treasure would be.
  • Peggy Pavlat
    signed via 2020-01-05 20:59:52 -0500
    Don’t have a mobile phone
  • Mamie Rudd
    signed via 2020-01-05 20:45:42 -0500
  • Joann Shrum
    signed via 2020-01-05 20:13:45 -0500
  • Deborah Kingery
    signed 2020-01-05 20:10:57 -0500
  • Richard Spatamerrill
    signed via 2020-01-05 20:01:55 -0500
  • Toni Hamilton
    signed via 2020-01-05 19:59:55 -0500
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  • Jeanette Sorensen
    signed via 2020-01-05 19:56:59 -0500
    Please make our lakes/rivers/land safe from toxic spills!! Thank you!
  • Amie Kirby
    signed via 2020-01-05 19:28:47 -0500
  • Lisa Hammond Koskey
    signed via 2020-01-05 19:19:27 -0500
    Kalamazoo river still not cleaned up. Oil companies LIE. Exon Valdez oil spill still affecting coast in Alaska. Oil companies LIE. Gulf of Mexico, all plant and much of the animal life still dying. Oil companies LIE. IMAGINE THE MESS IN THE GREAT LAKES. Oil companies…..LIE. And expect taxpayers to fund their useless cleanup efforts.
  • April Mckenzie
    signed 2020-01-05 18:59:19 -0500
  • Craig Najarian
    signed via 2020-01-05 18:58:58 -0500
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  • Adrian Laurenzi
    signed via 2020-01-05 18:12:43 -0500
  • Sally Barnhart
    signed via 2020-01-05 17:54:08 -0500
  • Sean Miller
    signed via 2020-01-05 17:16:16 -0500
  • Sam Eisenbach
    signed via 2020-01-05 17:14:56 -0500
    Sam Eisenbach
  • Gabriela Perez
    signed via 2020-01-05 17:04:33 -0500
  • Nathan Lamberts
    signed via 2020-01-05 16:59:44 -0500
  • Denise Hartsough
    signed via 2020-01-05 16:54:00 -0500
  • Roman Grucz
    signed via 2020-01-05 16:42:10 -0500
  • Mike Cook
    signed 2020-01-05 16:41:17 -0500
    Absolutely no need for that pipeline!
  • Marilyn Morehead
    signed via 2020-01-05 16:10:59 -0500
  • Sandi Carpenter
    signed via 2020-01-05 14:50:07 -0500
  • Alayne Speltz
    signed via 2020-01-05 14:43:47 -0500
  • Jack Ridl
    signed via 2020-01-05 14:33:38 -0500
  • Joe Hutson
    signed 2020-01-05 14:21:34 -0500
    My name is Joe Hutson, from Highland Township. I would advise against any oil tunnel or pipeline in the Mackinac Straits (existing or new), & although I generally vote Republican on business issues, I have these concerns: First, the use of state money & altering the Mackinac Authority. Second (& the really big concern) is keeping the Straits clean (for tourism & for conserving the natural beauty of the area) since any large rupture would be a major disaster, so we must consider the economic loss for Michigan in the event of such a rupture (companies too often tend to be short-sighted by avoiding maintenance costs, despite assurances to the contrary.)

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

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