SIGN THE PETITION
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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Oil and coal is the old ways,
we are headed for a solar punk future with sunny days,
we have said we want solar and electric instead,
we don’t need this project it won’t get us a head.
What we need is sustainability
that’s the reality.
I will be here for the next 60 years
stopping these projects quenching the fears,
Mother Gaia and I speak for the trees,
All the plants, birds, butterflies and bees,
We lay claim to Accidental Life,
under this claim it is promised that we will not suffer undue strife,
Not at the hands of our fellow man, not at the hands of a corporation, not at the hands of any person in any destination.
My legal claim is that life is rare, there is no cosmic proof that anyone else is out there,
No Contact, No DNA sample, no evidence to show us
another planet is inhabitable.
Even if an abundant planet is found with life and plants, We cannot travel there just based on distance and earthy circumstances.
We must all rise and take a stand,
This is our only Earth. This is our only land.
So my claim to Accidental Life,
Go now and Look and you will see,
The rarest thing in this universe is not diamonds my darling, it is Trees!
Ask any astrophysicist, ask any person of education who knows this magical solar system.
They will all tell you that trees are the most rarest part of Earth’s incarnations.
So I speak for Gaia, I speak for the trees,
most of all I speak for me.
I speak for the future lives, still meant to be,
they all deserve clean water, air and ancient trees.
I have faith in the future,
I know life will be better.
We have no need for fossil fuel,
at this point it is needless and cruel.
Any oil that comes from corporate toil,
that can ruin our water and Gaia’s soil,
Under the Universal Law of Valor –
All Life is precious, it is to be preserved, protected and defended even land and soil.
My Vow to protect is my the Why I must protest and I must foil.
If you move forward with your project,
the spirit realm has spoken it will wreak havoc,
Make No Mistake this is Not a Threat.
Its a warning for what will befall and what this project will beget.
The prophecy, will come to pass and all will be made to see,
so it was written, so it was spoken, so it shall be.
Xanthia Dean