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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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I’ve asked many times over the last number years that Line 5 be decommissioned. Enbridge is not reliable. I know this because I and many others lived through Enbridge’s 2010, Line 6B, spill of a million gallons of diluted bitumen into the Kalamazoo River. Because the river was running high, when Line 6B ruptured, wetlands are still full of oil. There was no way to get in and clean it clean up. Their cleanup was pathetic. Let them run their line through Canada – Michigan doesn’t need to be Enbridges Pathway to Canada. It’s time you take bold action and protect our Great Lakes.
Kathy Schoen Climax, MI