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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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  • Jay Kloosterman
    signed 2019-12-22 10:23:45 -0500
  • Jeannie Bohley
    signed via 2019-12-22 09:24:29 -0500
    Jeannie Bohley
  • Beth Bowen
    signed via 2019-12-22 09:18:20 -0500
    Before the pipeline was built, trucks were used to deliver the oil. There must be alternatives to building a tunnel and running. A risky pipeline through our Great Lakes.


    I understand that the unions are in opposition to ending the pipeline. Let’s be creative and find other jobs for our great union workers that don’t endanger—that in fact protect—our environment.


    Thank you.
  • Mackenzie Bogema
    signed via 2019-12-22 09:14:23 -0500
  • Claire Renwick
    signed via 2019-12-22 08:57:23 -0500
  • Wesley Slover
    signed via 2019-12-22 08:43:12 -0500
  • Diane Scarvie
    signed via 2019-12-22 08:06:02 -0500
  • Melanie Bunn
    signed via 2019-12-22 07:40:17 -0500
  • nina rönnberg
    signed via 2019-12-22 00:20:53 -0500
  • Tyler Louton
    signed via 2019-12-21 22:53:27 -0500
  • Mary Staley
    signed 2019-12-21 21:29:07 -0500
    Do Not allow this pipeline to continue to be used in the Straits of Mackinac where an inevitable massive amount of oil may spill, thereby polluting all four of the lower Great Lakes! A disaster the likes of which has never been seen! Worse than Deepwater Horizon!
  • Sherri J Wiegman
    signed 2019-12-21 21:09:41 -0500
  • Frank Sapio
    signed via 2019-12-21 19:45:31 -0500
  • Braydon Skiles
    signed 2019-12-21 19:31:22 -0500
  • Dee Bird
    signed 2019-12-21 19:24:02 -0500
  • Patricia Kelly
    signed via 2019-12-21 18:39:06 -0500
  • Mike Berg
    signed 2019-12-21 18:37:04 -0500
  • Merry Rosenberg
    signed via 2019-12-21 18:28:17 -0500
  • Susan Hefner
    signed 2019-12-21 17:30:08 -0500
  • Sarah Haney
    signed 2019-12-21 17:17:37 -0500
    Gas and oil companies don’t have track records of safety and concerns for the environment, nor for the citizens that end up with destroyed lives and properties resulting form their mistakes and spills. Force them to shut down now.
  • Christine Pastoor
    signed via 2019-12-21 17:01:38 -0500
  • George Horn
    signed 2019-12-21 16:36:08 -0500
  • G Clemson
    signed 2019-12-21 16:05:02 -0500
  • Anne Billiard
    signed 2019-12-21 15:49:44 -0500
    Anne Billiard
  • Thomas Bauer
    signed 2019-12-21 15:20:36 -0500
  • Cyndi Kress
    signed 2019-12-21 13:37:16 -0500
  • Janice Hironaka
    signed via 2019-12-21 12:18:07 -0500
  • Sarah Gurney
    signed via 2019-12-21 08:57:54 -0500
  • Dawn Fleming
    signed via 2019-12-21 08:41:43 -0500
    The Great Lakes and our water are Michigan’s most valuable resources; we must protect them from ANY possibility of an oil leak, which could destroy our water systems, fish, wildlife, tourism and other businesses. We owe it to future generations.
  • Karen Fisette
    signed 2019-12-21 08:39:13 -0500

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