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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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  • Melissa Weimer
    signed via 2019-12-16 20:55:15 -0500
    Melissa Lee Weimer
  • Paula Denissen
    signed via 2019-12-16 20:43:47 -0500
  • Adel Easterday
    followed this page 2019-12-16 20:26:48 -0500
  • Adel Easterday
    signed via 2019-12-16 20:20:30 -0500
    I wake up in a sweat when the wind howls. I picture that rotting 65 year old pipeline full of oil under pressure just being tossed back and forth across the bottom of the lake bed in currents as strong as those at Niagara Falls. I don’t understand why anyone would risk our beautiful Straits of Mackinaw. I know the Canadians do it for profit. Why would anyone living in Michigan ever allow this to continue? I will never understand it.
  • Gayle Miller
    signed via 2019-12-16 20:18:07 -0500
    Gayle L Miller
  • Martha Mikko
    signed via 2019-12-16 20:17:57 -0500
  • Bobie Crongeyer
    signed via 2019-12-16 19:56:57 -0500
  • Kim Martin
    signed via 2019-12-16 19:49:53 -0500
  • Mary Comar
    signed 2019-12-16 19:16:55 -0500
    The Straits of Mackinaw have the most turbulent currents in the Great Lakes where the waters of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron collide. Therefore any disturbance of the seabed by constructing a tunnel let alone the continued use of a deteriorating oil pipeline, in all logic and wisdom, must be halted. The Great Lakes are fresh water blessing to be protected. We need the Great Lakes for drinking, bathing, fishing, and recreational and commercial transportation. The risks of contamination are real, played out elsewhere regularly, making the delay of shutting down line 5, negligence of duty in the face of pending disaster.
  • Corrine Johnston
    signed via 2019-12-16 19:01:13 -0500
  • Gail Dennis
    signed via 2019-12-16 18:54:33 -0500
    Gail Dennis
  • Julie Chun
    signed 2019-12-16 18:52:40 -0500
    Subsidizing propane to UP costs nothing compared to a pipe rupture in our Great Lakes. Shut down Line 5 and any discussion with Enbridge.
  • Patricia Ahrens
    signed 2019-12-16 18:48:16 -0500
    Patricia Ahrens
  • Sherry Gerlach
    signed 2019-12-16 18:32:39 -0500
  • Richard Cooper
    signed via 2019-12-16 18:32:12 -0500
  • Bill Kurtz
    signed 2019-12-16 18:31:29 -0500
  • Raymond Thibeault
    signed via 2019-12-16 18:24:09 -0500
    Our magnificent lakes, and all the aquatic life within them, should not be put at risk for the sake of profit.
  • Paige Ostrowski
    signed via 2019-12-16 18:01:12 -0500
  • Dan Reelitz
    signed 2019-12-16 18:00:26 -0500
    I fully support no tunnel and decommissioning of Line 5.
  • Karen Garnica
    signed via 2019-12-16 17:31:18 -0500
  • Kelly Willis
    signed via 2019-12-16 17:22:31 -0500
  • Mitch McNeil
    signed 2019-12-16 16:49:24 -0500
    Forget the phony tunnel hornswoggle. It’s mostly a smoke screen to allow the pipeline to sit on the bottom of the Lake for another ten years at least. No no no!
  • Molly Donahue
    signed 2019-12-16 15:17:21 -0500
    Molly Donahue
  • Erin Emington
    signed via 2019-12-16 15:02:01 -0500
  • Ralph Hunt
    signed 2019-12-16 15:01:43 -0500
  • Sarah Morrison
    signed via 2019-12-16 15:01:09 -0500
  • Joan Hunault
    signed 2019-12-16 14:49:17 -0500
  • Julie Drabik
    signed via 2019-12-16 14:24:43 -0500
    Decommission Line 5!
  • Marion Eacker
    signed via 2019-12-16 14:13:14 -0500
  • Margo Sirrine
    signed 2019-12-16 14:02:59 -0500

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