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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 & Secretary Buttigieg:

An oil tunnel through the public bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac won’t protect the Great Lakes from a 645-mile long, 71-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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  • Mark Adamiec
    signed via 2020-01-19 09:50:53 -0500
  • Abbie Nesbitt
    signed 2020-01-19 09:47:54 -0500
    The Great Lakes are incredibly important and it is imperative that we do everything in our power to keep them pristine. They generate massive amounts of tourism for the region, provide drinking water for millions, and, well, they’re beautiful. Even the smallest possibility of an oil spill (and this one is FAR from small) is unacceptable. Line 5 is unnecessary. Get rid of it. Let’s diversify our energy resources and reduce our dependence on oil.
  • Cid Ley
    signed 2020-01-19 09:46:34 -0500
  • Joe Good
    signed 2020-01-19 09:37:21 -0500
    Joseph Good
  • Sheri McLelland
    signed 2020-01-19 09:28:51 -0500
  • Kirsten Foxworthy
    signed 2020-01-19 09:27:03 -0500
  • Beverly Dronen
    signed 2020-01-19 09:08:49 -0500
  • Greg Collins
    signed 2020-01-19 08:56:57 -0500
  • Priscilla Massie
    signed 2020-01-19 08:52:11 -0500
    Governor you promised to to stop Embridge on your campaign. Please don’t let Embridge ruin our Unique and beautiful Great Lakes! This will not hurt Yoopers the oil is crude oil they are transporting to Canada.
  • Betty Herron
    signed via 2020-01-19 08:46:27 -0500
  • Diana Eaton
    signed via 2020-01-19 08:38:34 -0500
  • Beth Cole
    signed 2020-01-19 08:35:10 -0500
  • Melissa VerDuin
    signed 2020-01-19 08:34:00 -0500
    Please shut down line 5 like you PROMISED! It’s one reason WHY I voted for you! And no tunnel! Our CHILDREN’S FUTURES rely on YOU! PLEASE KEEP YOUR PROMISE! line 5 has already leaked 33 times! ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! WATER IS LIFE!
  • Richard Barron
    signed 2020-01-19 08:29:19 -0500
  • Penny VanderTol
    signed via 2020-01-19 08:26:04 -0500
  • Clark Crowe
    signed 2020-01-19 08:20:38 -0500
  • Gene Rutter
    signed via 2020-01-19 08:15:34 -0500
    Gene Rutter
  • Jeanie Boshoven
    signed 2020-01-19 08:11:01 -0500
    I ….with my whole heart, support You!!!!!
  • Susan Rans
    signed 2020-01-19 08:08:58 -0500
    I live in the UP and I use propane. But the safety and beauty of the Great Lakes are more important to me than finding another propane delivery system.
  • JohnJohnl Yakich
    signed via 2020-01-19 08:07:34 -0500
  • Jennifer Holtz
    signed 2020-01-19 08:06:04 -0500
  • David Rohrkemper
    signed 2020-01-19 08:02:19 -0500
  • Josh Holcomb
    signed 2020-01-19 08:00:25 -0500
  • Barbara Murphy
    signed 2020-01-19 07:53:56 -0500
    I live on an Island in the middle of Lake Michigan….the same body of water that laps at the shore of Chicago and that flows under the Mackinaw Bridge. It’s beauty leaves me awe-struck every day, every season. I cannot fathom the damage an oil spill would inflict. We cannot take that chance.
  • Pauline Feltner
    signed 2020-01-19 07:52:39 -0500
    Pauline Feltner
  • Denise Stevens
    signed via 2020-01-19 07:47:34 -0500
  • Sabreen Semaan
    signed 2020-01-19 07:44:23 -0500
  • Susan Glass
    signed 2020-01-19 07:42:51 -0500
  • Robert Belknap
    signed 2020-01-19 07:34:08 -0500
  • Herbert Hames
    signed 2020-01-19 07:30:05 -0500

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