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This is how we make our government accountable to the people. We'll deliver your signature to tell Gov. Whitmer the will of the people is to #ShutDownLine5
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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Its horrific. Please do whatever you can to stop Line 5.
I also volunteer for endangered plovers out east and would hate to think of the fragile populations in the Great Lakes being impacted.
For the regional benefits, the migratory species, honoring tribal treaties, and just for the good of the future, please oppose further development of pipelines.
Honestly, with another war that appears to be motivated by profits from nonrenewable fossil fuels, the audacity to invest further in the outdated technology of pipelines is inexcusable.
This fossil-fuel-at-any-cost extractive mindset endangers us all. The wars for oil have cost our country through the defense budget and, of course, the loss of lives and well being for those deployed. (Speaking as someone from a military family who has seen the ways war lives on in the minds and bodies of long after active duty is over.)
As I’m sure you’re aware, the violent invading and attacking of oil-rich nations has cost innocent civilian lives. As America celebrates 250 years of independence from England, I think of how American bombs are threatening built and natural environments in Iran that have been cultivated for more than 5 times as long as our country has been established. As we saw with the ongoing devastation in Gaza, the attack on civilians and on their culture and history is an act of genocide.
This must not be replicated. I won’t go further into the obvious reasons that genocide is unforgivable. As you know, the nations that originally stewarded the Great Lakes in our own country have their own stories.
These acts of war are effectively ecocide in biodiverse hotspots that contribute to conservation that could benefit our planet and species as a whole. It costs our planet incalculable harm. Supporting pipeline construction at home is inviting that violence into our already vulnerable ecosystems.
Now is a great time to bring attention to the way that these fossil fuels are literally not worth the damage done.
Not only should line 5 be stopped, but regulations should increase. Funds should be reallocated into renewable energy sources. None of this is new or radical. But it is still on our minds.
Thanks for your consideration and for the hard work you and your team do ever single day!