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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 & Michigan’s Legislature:

An oil tunnel through the public bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac won’t protect the Great Lakes from a 645-mile long aging Line 5 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 to you 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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  • Samantha Carston
    signed 2020-01-13 11:10:21 -0500
  • Linda Gee
    signed 2020-01-13 09:25:49 -0500
  • Jane Elder
    signed 2020-01-13 06:10:49 -0500
    Jane Elder
  • Dan Boss
    signed via 2020-01-12 22:28:36 -0500
    We need a push to green energy to get rid of fosil fuels and their uses just to catch up globally
  • Sue Schneider
    signed 2020-01-12 21:43:32 -0500
    Sue Schneider
  • Johanna Rohde
    signed 2020-01-12 21:41:09 -0500
  • Leslie Sobel
    signed 2020-01-12 21:14:23 -0500
    Enbridge has a terrible track record. The stakes are too high to risk the Great Lakes.
  • Shannon Fineout
    signed 2020-01-12 18:49:01 -0500
  • Susan Willea
    signed 2020-01-12 17:30:13 -0500
    Please don’t cave to corporate interests. We cannot afford to risk the Great Lakes in favor of profit and greed. #SHUTDOWNLINE5NOW
  • Marcia Curran
    signed via 2020-01-12 16:10:33 -0500
    Water is more important and valuable than oil. Polluting 20% of the wold’s fresh water should be avoided at all costs. We don’t need the oil that comes through Line 5. Close it.
  • Natalie Cadwell
    signed via 2020-01-12 16:07:04 -0500
    Natalie Cadwell
  • Kristin Hurlin
    signed via 2020-01-12 14:03:25 -0500
    Our clean, fresh water is more important to the health, safety, employment opportunities and welfare of Michigan’s citizens than Enbridge’s profits and the small amount of propane flared off in our state. There is no way to clean up a spill at the straits, and the hundreds of miles of outdated, corroded pipes underground are threatening drinking water across the state.
  • Barry Allen
    signed via 2020-01-12 12:54:50 -0500
  • Lois Millet
    signed 2020-01-12 12:38:45 -0500
  • Kathleen Engle
    signed via 2020-01-12 12:35:29 -0500
  • Maria Gardner
    signed via 2020-01-12 12:26:57 -0500
  • Tom Bousamra
    signed via 2020-01-12 12:18:19 -0500
  • Alice Littlefield
    signed via 2020-01-12 12:12:12 -0500
    The cost of this will such that Enbridge will never build it. They just want an excuse to keep using the pip[eline they have.
  • Maargaret Forgione
    signed via 2020-01-12 11:47:19 -0500
  • Carolyn Davis
    signed via 2020-01-12 11:30:07 -0500
  • Christina Lirones
    signed 2020-01-12 11:28:47 -0500
  • Liana Criscuolo
    signed 2020-01-12 11:12:48 -0500
  • Lesley Miller
    signed via 2020-01-12 11:12:00 -0500
  • William Palmer
    signed 2020-01-12 11:11:00 -0500
    William Palmer
  • Judy Cassidy
    signed via 2020-01-12 10:49:48 -0500
    Time to move on. Gas and oil have helped us greatly over the years, ut now they hurt us. And the water thst leaks pollute we and everyone we love rely on to survive.
  • Truda Fagan
    signed via 2020-01-12 10:40:21 -0500
  • Tanisha Bright
    signed via 2020-01-12 10:38:07 -0500
  • MeChelle Johnson
    signed via 2020-01-12 10:33:30 -0500
  • Sally Rogers
    signed via 2020-01-12 09:46:32 -0500
    Keep your promise to protect the precious waters of the Great Lakes, Governor Whitmer. It is long past the time for America to wean itself off of disastrous fossil fuels.
  • Margaret Cadieux
    signed via 2020-01-12 09:44:16 -0500

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