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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, 71-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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  • Robert L. Pocobello
    signed 2024-12-18 12:07:58 -0500
  • Marnelle Curtis
    signed 2024-12-18 12:07:34 -0500
  • Gerard Ridella
    signed 2024-12-18 12:03:15 -0500
  • Jo Baxter
    signed 2024-12-18 12:01:09 -0500
  • Heather Vasquez
    signed 2024-12-18 11:57:33 -0500
  • Marge Ferrance
    signed 2024-12-18 11:56:24 -0500
  • Dennis Knaack
    signed 2024-12-18 11:55:35 -0500
  • Benjamin Barajas Jr
    signed 2024-12-18 11:52:59 -0500
  • Carol Steinhart
    signed 2024-12-18 11:51:35 -0500
  • Carli Thompson
    signed 2024-12-18 03:45:57 -0500
  • Michael Speer
    signed 2024-12-18 03:45:17 -0500
  • Buffy Silverman
    signed via 2024-12-17 21:00:10 -0500
  • Aldo Hernandez
    signed via 2024-12-17 15:21:06 -0500
  • Samantha Stenger
    signed via 2024-12-17 14:03:06 -0500
  • Isabella Croff
    signed 2024-12-16 20:07:34 -0500
    Not only has Enbridge repeatedly proven its unwillingness to respect agreements with native peoples unless forced to by court order, it has refused to maintain Line 5 in a satisfactorily safe or environmentally conscious way (if an oil & gas pipeline even can be environmentally conscious). Their bottom line should not be buoyed by state or federal government with a last minute non-solution to a problem they have already refused to solve. Enbridge should not be given a way out of the pit they’ve dug themselves, especially since it comes at such high risk to damage of the Great Lakes and its shorelines. Not only this, but continuation of this kind of infrastructure discourages moves to more sustainable options as it takes possible money from those projects and proves to the companies that they can just keep their current, more profitable structures and expect to be bailed out by the government.
  • Nicole Foster
    signed 2024-12-16 19:26:56 -0500
  • Maxine Touchette
    signed via 2024-12-16 18:35:46 -0500
  • Alexandra Jett
    signed 2024-12-16 13:37:25 -0500
  • Andrea Delgado
    signed 2024-12-16 12:57:32 -0500
  • Joe Johnson
    signed 2024-12-16 12:45:06 -0500
  • Aaron Purrenhage
    signed 2024-12-11 11:48:04 -0500
    Our state, our citizens and our environment should not be sacrificed for the wants of a giant corporation that cares nothing for our great lakes ecosystem. Enbridge thinks that they can hold us hostage by lying about their pipelines importance. People will say that Michiganders need the pipeline for fuel, which is exaggerated. Michigan needs a healthy great lakes system for the thousands of jobs and people who depend off tourism and recreation in our state. Nobody is going to visit the beaches if they are covered in oil. We need to prioritize the health of the great lakes, not the wellbeing of the Canadian oil market.
  • Holly Houck
    signed 2024-12-11 08:04:17 -0500
  • Sasha Singer-Wilson
    signed 2024-12-11 00:46:12 -0500
  • Clara Snyder
    signed 2024-12-10 12:04:34 -0500
  • sam hanson
    signed 2024-12-09 20:54:27 -0500
    keep the water clean for future geniratons
  • Jim Sawtelle
    signed 2024-12-09 19:44:18 -0500
    Shut Down Line 5. NO Tunnel
  • Carol Lynn Napora
    signed 2024-12-09 10:43:28 -0500
  • Barbara Vukits
    signed 2024-12-08 10:49:44 -0500
  • John Mark Rozendaal
    signed 2024-12-08 10:34:46 -0500
    The Great Lakes are far too precious, and Enbridge is far too untrustworthy for this to be allowed.
  • Nancy Popham
    signed via 2024-12-06 22:44:10 -0500

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