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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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  • Jody Bond
    signed via 2025-11-04 07:24:17 -0500
  • Andrea Simmons
    signed 2025-11-03 18:05:04 -0500
  • Sharon Klemm
    signed 2025-11-03 08:11:27 -0500
  • Mary Goode
    signed 2025-11-01 11:49:08 -0400
  • Helen Leuthner
    signed 2025-11-01 11:14:19 -0400
  • Kathy Bowden
    signed 2025-10-30 08:29:36 -0400
    Do not allow this to happen- we do not want 2% of the world’s fresh water contaminated!! We want our grandchildren to be able to enjoy their beauty!
  • Raymond Intemann
    signed via 2025-10-29 22:09:30 -0400
  • Jessica Rickert
    signed via 2025-10-29 15:37:31 -0400
  • Debra Ziegler
    signed 2025-10-28 22:09:20 -0400
  • Elsa And Walter Verderber
    signed 2025-10-28 21:12:30 -0400
    It is astonishing to hear the reasons why this pipe line could be a disaster for Michigan and the whole country, yet there continues to be discussion on making it happen. What is wrong with those who can stop this—why hasn’t this been stopped months and years ago.
  • George Anderson
    signed 2025-10-28 20:10:02 -0400
  • Jane Bahr
    signed 2025-10-28 11:13:27 -0400
  • Carol Elias
    signed 2025-10-27 18:24:57 -0400
  • Ann Kraft
    signed 2025-10-27 07:51:18 -0400
  • Olga Zakharova
    signed 2025-10-27 00:01:23 -0400
  • Ted Schweitzer
    signed 2025-10-26 21:04:36 -0400
    Dear Governor Whitmer: As a fellow Midwesterner, and someone who absolutely loves Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, I urge you and Michigan’s Legislature and environmental agencies to veto the tunnel proposal to enclose Line 5 through the Straits of Mackinac. I am a resident of Illinois, and Lake Michigan is not far from where I live, this project while immediately – and adversely – effecting the Straits area of both the U.P. and the lower peninsula could have horrendous effects on all of the Great Lakes. Please prioritize, wind, solar, geothermal, and other forms of energy vs. Enbridge’s folly.


    Sincerely,


    Ted A. Schweitzer
  • Gail Addis
    signed 2025-10-26 20:03:27 -0400
    Continue to resiust, and shut down Line 5. Our water is a gift and our best resource. It must be protected and not compromised.
  • Sylvia Cardella
    signed 2025-10-26 18:08:22 -0400
  • Charlene Kerchevall
    signed 2025-10-26 17:27:26 -0400
  • Robert Yancey
    signed 2025-10-26 16:51:49 -0400
  • Pat Holbrook
    signed 2025-10-26 14:08:27 -0400
  • Robert Reed
    signed 2025-10-26 13:31:07 -0400
    just do it
  • Mary Thompson
    signed 2025-10-26 12:54:00 -0400
  • Jim Vail
    signed 2025-10-26 11:54:55 -0400
  • Karl Hamann
    signed 2025-10-26 11:42:06 -0400
  • Sherri Gondoly
    signed 2025-10-26 11:02:54 -0400
  • John Brandmeier
    signed 2025-10-26 10:48:42 -0400
  • Ellen Dryer
    signed 2025-10-26 10:21:14 -0400
  • Rosie Jacka
    signed 2025-10-26 09:44:39 -0400
  • Elizabeth Winston
    signed 2025-10-26 09:36:38 -0400
    This could be disasterous.

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