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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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  • Michael Carpenter
    signed 2020-01-19 14:18:23 -0500
    Michael Carpenter
  • Edward Palazzo
    signed 2020-01-19 14:16:21 -0500
  • Bonnie Reed
    signed 2020-01-19 13:53:05 -0500
  • Darcy Bluhm
    signed 2020-01-19 13:47:12 -0500
    It’s long past time to hold Enbridge accountable and let them know in no uncertain terms that their pipeline is no longer welcome in the Straits of Mackinac as they have demonstrated they are not reliable or honest guests in our country. Enough is enough.
  • Lucie McNeil
    signed 2020-01-19 13:34:04 -0500
  • Jean Cunningham
    signed 2020-01-19 13:10:08 -0500
  • Justine Trowbridge
    signed via 2020-01-19 13:06:31 -0500
    WE DON’T NEED FOSSIL FUELS ANY MORE!!!!!!! SOLAR SOLAR SOLAR SOLAR SOLAR
  • Marie McCullough
    signed via 2020-01-19 13:05:36 -0500
  • Dwight Sanders
    signed 2020-01-19 12:48:16 -0500
  • Lore Weber
    signed 2020-01-19 12:35:11 -0500
    Lore Weber
  • Bill Paquette
    signed 2020-01-19 12:34:08 -0500
  • Paul McCullough
    signed 2020-01-19 12:24:59 -0500
  • Mary Krause
    signed via 2020-01-19 12:01:30 -0500
    Fresh water for everyone , keep our lake safe from oil drillers
  • Kevin Crupi
    signed 2020-01-19 11:55:12 -0500
    A large spill from aging Line 5 will have devastating consequences for the Great Lakes and Michigan. Better safe than sorry!
  • David Wesaw
    signed 2020-01-19 11:40:21 -0500
    protect our waters
  • C Kosowski
    signed via 2020-01-19 11:38:21 -0500
  • William Ludtke
    signed via 2020-01-19 11:38:21 -0500
    FYI, just link straight to petition – You don’t screw with people’s drinking water or natural resources!!!
  • Aurora Stienstra
    signed 2020-01-19 11:32:51 -0500
  • Patricia lloyd
    signed 2020-01-19 11:26:40 -0500
    Thank you, Gov. Whitmer, for fighting for The Lakes. Your efforts and leadership are much appreciated. There is NO safe oil tunnel.
  • Clif Conklin
    signed 2020-01-19 11:23:32 -0500
    Living in Marshall I have lived through the aftermath of an oil leak disaster. I can’t imagine what this could do to the Great Lakes. Please don’t let this happen there. Hold Enbridge, and others, accountable for doing business in our State. Let them bear the cost.
  • Nicole Dambrun
    signed 2020-01-19 11:10:15 -0500
  • Deborah Cimock
    signed via 2020-01-19 11:02:24 -0500
    Please shut down line 5!!!!
  • Kat Russell
    signed 2020-01-19 10:57:53 -0500
    When Line 5 ruptures it will permanently damage our state’s economy, coastline, tourist industry, and source of water.
  • Charlene Trevorrow
    signed 2020-01-19 10:42:46 -0500
    We are having more and more fresh drinking water polluted by oil companies pipeline leakages and groundwater poisoned by fracking for tiny amounts of oil mixed with soil. Enough is enough. If pipeline 5 ever(which is GOING TO HAPPEN) cracks or brakes will destroy drinking water for hundreds of city’s and millions of people.
  • Geoffrey Thompson
    signed 2020-01-19 10:42:31 -0500
  • Donna Nesbitt
    signed 2020-01-19 10:35:17 -0500
  • Annie O'neill
    signed 2020-01-19 10:33:51 -0500
    Annie O’Neill
  • Erik Peterson
    signed 2020-01-19 10:27:14 -0500
  • Ethel Lrsen
    signed 2020-01-19 10:24:58 -0500
  • Joanne Lakosil
    signed 2020-01-19 10:21:59 -0500

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