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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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  • Criage Lynnette Althage
    signed 2020-12-16 22:00:50 -0500
  • Catharine White
    signed 2020-12-16 21:22:52 -0500
  • Judy Savard
    signed 2020-12-16 19:40:09 -0500
  • Joseph Gattyan
    signed 2020-12-16 18:58:59 -0500
  • Leah Morris
    signed 2020-12-16 16:18:18 -0500
  • Rebecca Woolery
    signed via 2020-12-16 09:40:48 -0500
  • Maddie Stokes
    signed 2020-12-15 12:41:52 -0500
    Maddie Stokes
  • Susan Riegler
    signed 2020-12-14 22:02:53 -0500
    The initial agreement called for the State (and thus the taxpayers) to pay for the tunnel. This was ludicrous, and I am so glad the entire project is hopefully going to be abolished.
  • Robert Johnson
    signed 2020-12-14 15:23:50 -0500
    Gretchen,

    You seem to care so much about our health and well-being when it comes to COVID, now lets look at the bigger picture and put as much effort into saving our planet for the next generation.
  • Eric Bontrager
    signed 2020-12-12 10:34:57 -0500
  • Coleen Durbin-Matrone
    signed 2020-12-12 06:29:37 -0500
  • Katie Hajjar
    signed 2020-12-11 12:00:51 -0500
  • Shelby Dement
    signed 2020-12-11 11:13:45 -0500
  • Jan Marcusson
    signed 2020-12-11 09:52:47 -0500
  • Tom Mountz
    signed 2020-12-10 21:08:56 -0500
  • Elizabeth Goodenough
    signed 2020-12-10 16:36:57 -0500
  • Jeff Trainer
    signed 2020-12-10 16:30:23 -0500
  • Betty Cowley
    signed 2020-12-10 16:23:02 -0500
    We must switch from fossil fuel to solar and wind energy ASAP. Consumer Energy needs to be more concerned about saving the planet than increasing profits. Start by shutting down oil pipelines in Great Lakes.
  • Stan Holakowski
    signed 2020-12-08 16:18:39 -0500
    This line is not necessary, it benefits Canada more then Michigan, relocate it thru Canadian Right of way
  • Douglas Schmitt
    signed via 2020-12-06 23:25:51 -0500
    Rewards not worth the risks
  • Marjorie Horton
    signed 2020-12-06 19:32:39 -0500
  • Linda Holsapple
    signed 2020-12-06 17:56:32 -0500
    Shut down these pipes that threaten our pristine water!!!
  • Charlene Griffin
    signed 2020-12-05 21:10:29 -0500
    Enbridge is responsible for 33 oil leaks already! A pipeline will not protect our Great Lakes and we cannot trust their future to this company.
  • Beatrice Harris
    signed 2020-12-03 12:29:49 -0500
  • Karen B Guetzko
    signed 2020-12-03 09:37:18 -0500
  • Mary Kreiter
    signed 2020-12-03 09:22:25 -0500
    We had one terrible oil spill by Enbridge that went on for hours as the workers in Texas were afraid to shut down the line when they heard the warning signals. A million gallons of tar sand oil went into Talmadge Creek and then into the Kalamazoo River. The largest land spill in history!
  • Susan Pohlad
    signed via 2020-12-02 21:30:53 -0500
  • Joseph Manas
    signed 2020-12-02 20:35:43 -0500
    Jose Garcia Manas
  • Tammie Stimac
    signed 2020-12-02 15:39:35 -0500
  • Kathryn Coon
    signed 2020-12-02 15:39:19 -0500

IMAGE of Mighty Mac & Blue Ice courtesy of Rachel Kramer via Flickr

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