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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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  • Britta Campton
    signed 2025-01-13 16:59:07 -0500
  • Dorothyann Coyne
    signed 2025-01-13 14:52:15 -0500
  • Marcia Plunkett
    signed 2025-01-13 14:18:16 -0500
  • Victoria Hepler
    signed 2025-01-13 12:42:07 -0500
  • Kimberly Ditz
    signed via 2025-01-13 12:00:55 -0500
    It’s way past time for us to start respecting the science of global warming. And it’s also way past time for us to be selling natural resources to a Canadian company that has eve less respect for the planet. The dirty oil they’re pushing through our country is not even for American consumption – as if that would make it okay.

    We’ve missed the boat on achieving any goals of reducing harm to our planet. Does it make sense to just burn it all up? I think not.
  • Jean Citron
    signed via 2025-01-13 11:58:20 -0500
  • Amelia Hefferlin
    signed via 2025-01-13 09:34:36 -0500
  • Kathleen Lapinski
    signed 2025-01-13 08:54:16 -0500
  • Karen Bednarek
    signed 2025-01-13 08:41:15 -0500
    This is ridiculous

    NO DANGEROUS PIPELINE SHOULD BE SETTLED‼️
  • Melissa Kochenderfer
    signed 2025-01-13 02:18:27 -0500
  • David Katz
    signed 2025-01-12 21:57:11 -0500
  • Ashley Healy
    signed 2025-01-12 20:46:10 -0500
  • Steve Rhein
    signed 2025-01-12 17:57:49 -0500
  • Kim Patterson
    signed 2025-01-11 19:55:39 -0500
  • Samantha Malleis
    signed 2025-01-10 12:40:22 -0500
    Please protect our most precious resource …CLEAN WATER
  • Caroline Davis
    signed 2025-01-09 22:22:22 -0500
  • Atalanta Welsh
    signed 2025-01-09 13:51:04 -0500
    People over profit
  • Roberta Meserve
    signed 2025-01-09 10:40:34 -0500
    Stop polluting the air, water and land. Move to clean energy and stop a tunnel that will cause further disasters of climate change.
  • Marisa Phillips
    signed 2025-01-09 06:24:49 -0500
  • Janice Boboltz
    signed via 2025-01-08 23:00:44 -0500
    It’s long overdue to shut this pipeline down. An oil spill would be devastating to one of the largest areas of fresh water in the world. We have been commissioned to take care of this planet. Shut down this pipeline now and no more discussion of a tunnel in the Great Lakes. Fresh water can’t be replaced!
  • Emily Moore
    signed 2025-01-08 16:53:02 -0500
  • Sheila Walen Martin
    signed 2025-01-08 14:04:46 -0500
    I urge you to choose out climate over Enbridge shareholders. Don’t risk 20% of the world’s fresh water supply. Close down Line 5.
  • Deborah Williams
    signed 2025-01-08 12:27:37 -0500
    Another example of capitalism versus climate. The pipelines are unsafe & the damage they could cause will last for generations. But according to Enbridge, short-term profit matters more than long-term damage. Mackinac is a treasure as is the surrounding pristne forest. Please don’t let it be destroyed.
  • Dave Thompson
    signed 2025-01-08 12:21:32 -0500
    An oil spill in the Straits of Mackinac is a terrifying thought. Especially so when you realize that virtually none of this oil is destined for Michiganders. The position of Enbridge is preposterously wrong-headed, and it flies in the face of rational thinking. Please DO NOT let Enbridge push us around. This is critical issue for our grandchildren and far beyond.
  • Jim Quinn
    signed 2025-01-08 11:09:15 -0500
  • Natasha Kakish
    signed via 2025-01-07 08:38:10 -0500
  • Erin Dansevicus
    signed via 2025-01-07 08:07:48 -0500
  • Raegan Schultz
    signed via 2025-01-07 07:42:44 -0500
  • Michael Ruby
    signed via 2025-01-06 21:12:41 -0500
  • Nancy Broadwell
    signed via 2025-01-06 20:43:13 -0500

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