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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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  • Richard Jackson
    signed 2026-02-12 11:57:54 -0500
  • Barbara Finley-Shea
    signed 2026-02-12 11:45:53 -0500
  • Nancy Preston
    signed 2026-02-12 11:02:07 -0500
  • Marguerite Donnay
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    signed 2026-02-12 09:56:37 -0500
  • Mary Slaughter
    signed 2026-02-12 09:43:42 -0500
  • Charlotte Alexandre
    signed 2026-02-12 08:36:12 -0500
    Don’t take a chance on the Great Lakes becoming contaminated! Too many people depend on that water being clean!
  • Steven Shamrock
    signed 2026-02-12 08:31:15 -0500
  • Lorraine Johnson
    signed 2026-02-12 08:09:07 -0500
    Shut it down.
  • Joseph S. Cox
    signed 2026-02-11 22:58:12 -0500
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    signed 2026-02-11 05:13:31 -0500
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    signed 2026-02-11 05:06:14 -0500
  • Erin Celesti
    signed 2026-02-11 01:17:01 -0500
  • Nicholas Modd
    signed 2026-02-10 21:41:42 -0500
    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.
  • Melanie Murphy
    signed 2026-02-10 20:42:27 -0500
  • Destinee Knief
    signed 2026-02-10 20:11:03 -0500
  • Michael Dubnicka
    signed 2026-02-10 20:08:15 -0500
  • Marcie Meditch
    signed 2026-02-10 20:00:30 -0500
  • Mary Vrabel
    signed 2026-02-10 20:00:24 -0500
    We need to strengthen clean water rules, not weaken them. Water is more precious than oil and the Great Lakes are irreplaceable. Do the right thing.
  • Erin Case
    signed 2026-02-10 17:40:20 -0500
  • Bet David
    signed 2026-02-10 15:15:23 -0500

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