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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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  • Debra Eipperle-Smith
    signed 2019-12-19 13:42:07 -0500
  • Harriet Booth
    signed 2019-12-19 13:34:00 -0500
  • Dave Pearson
    signed 2019-12-19 13:29:39 -0500
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  • Sena Precious
    signed 2019-12-19 13:27:00 -0500
  • William Sellers
    signed 2019-12-19 13:19:33 -0500
  • Ross Dornan
    signed via 2019-12-19 13:16:46 -0500
  • Richard Freiman
    signed 2019-12-19 13:14:23 -0500
  • Andrew Edgerton
    signed 2019-12-19 13:11:57 -0500
  • Jacky Smith
    signed 2019-12-19 13:06:11 -0500
    Signing from the UK because this issue matters to the whole world.
  • Denis Pierce
    signed 2019-12-19 13:04:36 -0500
  • Curt Barkey
    signed 2019-12-19 13:04:00 -0500
  • David Krieger
    signed 2019-12-19 12:53:09 -0500
    Building the tunnel just allows the pipeline to remain in service for another decade. No to the tunnel and shut down Line 5 NOW!
  • Ken Trent
    signed 2019-12-19 12:46:31 -0500
  • Madelyn Le Page
    signed 2019-12-19 12:41:31 -0500
  • Anna Kornoelje
    signed 2019-12-19 12:41:05 -0500
  • Craig VanSumeren
    signed 2019-12-19 12:39:18 -0500
  • Mary Goodman
    signed 2019-12-19 12:37:31 -0500
  • Elaine Emling
    signed 2019-12-19 12:35:41 -0500
    I remember as a young teenager in the 1950s camping with my parents and young sister on Mackinac Island. Paradise! We must protect it and all our natural heritage.
  • Carol Avigne
    signed 2019-12-19 12:32:52 -0500
  • Tori Craig
    signed 2019-12-19 12:32:51 -0500
  • Peter Rogan
    signed 2019-12-19 12:30:30 -0500
    We are vulnerable to future oil spills, NOT freezing from oil that’s only passing through Michigan.
  • Vera Pszenyczny
    signed 2019-12-19 12:29:38 -0500
  • Janice Prokop-Heitman
    signed 2019-12-19 12:28:14 -0500
    This is so scary! It threatens our water supply!! Why would we continue to let this go on?
  • patrick Egan
    signed 2019-12-19 12:26:20 -0500
  • Louisette Lanteigne
    signed 2019-12-19 12:24:23 -0500
    There is a lack of adequate insurance for the entire Eastern Mainline pipeline system according to the Minnesota Chamber of Commerce. http://www.startribune.com/enbridge-oil-spill-insurance-inadequate-minnesota-regulators-say/490940011/
  • Peter Raphael
    signed 2019-12-19 12:24:09 -0500
    Shut it down. No tunnel.
  • Sue Wise Smith
    signed 2019-12-19 12:24:01 -0500
    Save the Great Lakes from OIL!
  • Amy Truth
    signed 2019-12-19 12:22:03 -0500
  • Jennifer Young
    signed 2019-12-19 12:21:22 -0500
  • Ansel Bowden
    signed 2019-12-19 12:18:06 -0500

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