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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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  • Ralph Scott
    signed 2026-04-30 22:19:10 -0400
  • Adina Crespo
    signed 2026-04-30 20:21:35 -0400
  • monte whatley
    signed 2026-04-30 12:01:12 -0400
  • Karen Verkerke
    signed 2026-04-30 09:39:38 -0400
  • Rochelle Martinez
    signed 2026-04-30 09:29:31 -0400
    Water is not replaceable. When Enbridge tunnel line bursts, we will all lose. Don’t take a chance on killing our environment. Protect Michigan, the people, the land as you had campaigned you would.
  • Betty Harris
    signed 2026-04-30 06:02:13 -0400
    Do you want to go down in history as the one person responsible for desecration of our great lakes?
  • Florence Namiotka
    signed 2026-04-29 17:54:37 -0400
    No to line 5. Why would we enable a Canadian company to potentially foul the great lakes. After Enbridge’s incident in Marshall MI, they should not be allowed to transport fuel oil and natural gas through a pipeline in Lake Michigan. They can build a pipeline through Canada instead.
  • Barbara Cherem
    signed 2026-04-29 14:49:24 -0400
  • Jacob Dean
    signed 2026-04-29 00:41:37 -0400
  • Jenifer Strauss
    signed via 2026-04-28 23:35:10 -0400
  • Marissa Franklin
    signed 2026-04-28 10:05:18 -0400
  • Robert Gideon
    signed 2026-04-26 14:06:01 -0400
  • Eric Buck
    signed 2026-04-26 08:59:21 -0400
  • Troy Kauppinen
    signed 2026-04-26 00:37:09 -0400
  • Christopher Fritsch
    signed 2026-04-25 14:02:01 -0400
  • Drew Kennerly
    signed 2026-04-25 10:24:35 -0400
  • Virginia Maloney
    signed via 2026-04-24 20:06:39 -0400
  • Wendy Gonzalez
    signed via 2026-04-24 16:41:05 -0400
    Please get rid of this hazard before you leave or you will have none of my support
  • Kathleen Rooney
    signed via 2026-04-24 15:29:21 -0400
    Oil lines have no place in our precious Great Lakes!
  • Helene Whalen
    signed via 2026-04-24 14:15:00 -0400
  • Ann ivinskas
    signed via 2026-04-24 13:17:57 -0400
  • Denise Sica
    signed 2026-04-24 13:04:54 -0400
  • Lauren Hennenfent
    signed via 2026-04-23 21:24:48 -0400
  • Jackie Schmitz
    signed 2026-04-23 20:14:29 -0400
  • Julia kalvelage
    signed 2026-04-23 12:21:30 -0400
    Profit over people, money talks, deceptive practices that allow the mentality to continue, ad nauseum.

    These people that control the machine have no regard for the future of their children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc.

    A large inheritance without a decent quality of life, what good is it?

    How does government have so little control over big business?? Aren’t they responsible for the welfare of the people they are sworn to protect??

    We have a similar issue in Texas regarding our land being absorbed for energy useage to maintain data storage and AI. It’s all so incredibly nauseating and needs to stop! Government needs to regain its authority to do as they were created to do;

    and prevent lobbyists from controlling the decisions ultimately made for our survival. The bribes and payoffs would need to stop, and there in-lies the problem…I digress.
  • Carly Gustafson
    signed 2026-04-23 10:57:08 -0400
  • Eleanor Vance
    signed 2026-04-23 09:30:11 -0400
  • Christine Ryan
    signed 2026-04-22 22:08:03 -0400
  • Hannah Thomas
    signed via 2026-04-22 21:30:04 -0400
  • Priscilla Jones
    signed 2026-04-22 20:49:25 -0400
    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. T


    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.

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

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