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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.
Sign 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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On July 25th, 2010, Enbridge had the largest and most costly inland oil spill in U.S. history, saturating around 40 miles of the Kalamazoo River watershed. This rupture was caused by a 6-foot break in their pipeline called Line 6B. That rupture went undetected and unreported for nearly 17 hours because Enbridge misinterpreted alarms indicating a loss of pressure to be column separation (a bubble in the line). Making matters worse, Enbridge’s response for overcoming column separation was to increase flow and pressure on the line to try and impede the bubble. For nearly 17 hours, Enbridge repeatedly increased pressure until they were finally notified by a local utility that Line 6B had a major rupture.
Ten days before this rupture, Enbridge testified before Congress that they could detect a leak “almost instantaneously.” Enbridge was being questioned about this very point because of their poor safety record and because of known defects on Line 6B.