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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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  • Mikel Nassar
    signed 2019-06-27 11:20:27 -0400
    We use these waters yearly, and while they claim line 5 to be low risk, there is currently zero risk and we’d like to keep it that way.
  • Joe Lad
    signed 2019-06-26 15:17:59 -0400
    Joe lad
  • Adam Larimer
    signed 2019-06-26 07:22:48 -0400
    Dear Gov. Whitmer & Michigan’s Legislature:


    An oil tunnel through the public bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac won’t protect the Great Lakes from a 645-mile long aging Line 5 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 urge you to take action now to decommission Line 5.
  • Robert Shook
    signed via 2019-06-25 19:36:50 -0400
  • Peggy Behrendt
    signed 2019-06-25 08:58:55 -0400
  • Renee Kulp
    signed 2019-06-24 17:28:23 -0400
  • Robert Sparling
    signed 2019-06-24 14:44:42 -0400
  • Jayden LaFave
    signed 2019-06-23 10:05:54 -0400
  • Sheri Moyer
    signed 2019-06-22 16:26:31 -0400
  • Jennifer Hjelm
    signed 2019-06-22 13:59:27 -0400
  • Nathan Munson
    signed 2019-06-21 08:41:11 -0400
    Nathan Munson
  • Ann Horn
    signed 2019-06-20 21:35:55 -0400
  • Larry Lipton
    signed via 2019-06-20 17:49:06 -0400
  • Fred Barker
    signed 2019-06-20 08:05:59 -0400
  • Chris Hagen
    signed via 2019-06-20 00:16:17 -0400
  • Carolyn Monahan
    signed 2019-06-19 20:30:40 -0400
    no tunnel.
  • Virginia Catanese
    signed 2019-06-19 12:33:42 -0400
  • Natosha Dibella
    signed 2019-06-18 21:40:00 -0400
  • Carissa Welton
    signed 2019-06-17 20:48:26 -0400
    Carissa Welton
  • Denise Carlson
    signed 2019-06-17 17:50:40 -0400
  • Maria Suchoski
    signed 2019-06-17 12:48:23 -0400
  • Giulio Partisani
    signed 2019-06-15 05:34:09 -0400
  • Elisa Hobbs
    signed 2019-06-14 18:54:28 -0400
    Being from the Upper Peninsula originally, I can see how my small fishing village relies so heavily on our Great Lakes to support them. We can’t let another spill happen and endanger the livelihood of our citizens (primarily the Native American population in my town!) Thank you for your consideration!
  • Amy Reis
    signed 2019-06-14 17:15:55 -0400
  • Rafael Statin
    signed 2019-06-14 12:38:36 -0400
  • Dana Atnip
    signed 2019-06-14 00:47:36 -0400
  • Leslie Pease
    signed 2019-06-13 19:36:07 -0400
    As a concerned citizen, I am deeply against this. We need no more pipelines in our waters. So much has Already happened. Ask Kalamazoo how their river is now for example. If oil companies really were accountable for upkeep, repairs & should there be a disaster clean up, that would be at least something. Since we have yet to see this, best to keep our waters clear.
  • Kelly Bosis
    signed 2019-06-13 15:41:59 -0400
  • Christina Riddle
    signed 2019-06-13 13:58:50 -0400
    Please Governor. Do not betray me, my 9 grandkids, and all that is dear to Michiganders: OUR WATER IS OUR LIFE.
  • Elizabeth Wagner
    signed 2019-06-13 12:54:12 -0400

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