No Oil Tunnel Petition

I’m from the east coast but married into a Midwestern family that showed me how awesome the Great Lakes are — for recreation, but also as invaluable ecosystems. They’re national treasures that must be protected.


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war that appears to be motivated by profits from nonrenewable fossil fuels, the audacity to invest further in the outdated technology of pipelines is inexcusable.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!

Governor Whitmer please keep your promise to shutdown Enbridge line 5 and no tunnel. You campaigned on this issue a promise is a promise.

Please, they cannot force the world to end – we are still meant to do so much as a species. Humans are amazing and this type of disaster would aid in our downfall. Please, the time is NOT now for everything to end. The time will reveal itself and this nation is trying to FORCE what will come naturally, when the time is ready. We are not done doing AMAZING THINGS. Please don’t contribute to this planet dying, our citizens dying, our wildlife dying, everything that is still beautiful in the world.

MI

Shut down line 5,there will never be a tunnel or take the consequences

Thank you, Governor Whitmer. With the currents at the Straits moving east and west, oil leaked or spilled would be impossible to capture and would pollute the Great Lakes. We are headed for a “green” economy and environment so any benefits for our State from oil is negligible anyway. Enbridge only cares about its stock holders and making money it would seem.

Please stop Line 5 and do not allow this tunnnel!

Thank you!

Yes, this case will display how SCOTUS protects its citizens OR. billionaires (oil & gas companies).

The Great Lakes are the most vitally important resource of fresh water in the country. Please help save and protect our water.

Do not take the chance of building a tunnel.