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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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  • Al Tromblay
    signed via 2019-12-18 17:53:29 -0500
  • Anne Rogers
    signed via 2019-12-18 16:28:29 -0500
  • Gustavo Rojas
    signed via 2019-12-18 16:15:13 -0500
  • Karen Franseen
    signed via 2019-12-18 16:09:02 -0500
  • Susan Tamlyn-Massawsy
    signed via 2019-12-18 16:06:55 -0500
  • Deni Scrudato
    signed via 2019-12-18 16:00:54 -0500
  • Jill Ryan
    signed via 2019-12-18 15:51:57 -0500
    The Great Lakes are 80% of our country’s fresh surface water. We cannot risk this resource that is so critical to life.
  • Elizabeth Dell
    signed via 2019-12-18 15:41:23 -0500
  • James Woodburne
    signed via 2019-12-18 15:24:51 -0500
  • Tim P Johnson
    signed via 2019-12-18 15:22:59 -0500
  • julie Pearson
    signed via 2019-12-18 15:18:01 -0500
  • joseph heringlake
    signed via 2019-12-18 15:17:22 -0500
  • Elizabeth Driscoll
    signed via 2019-12-18 14:59:42 -0500
    The Great Lakes are important to all people of the United States. Please be smart and not allow.
  • Suzannah Tobin
    signed via 2019-12-18 14:58:00 -0500
  • Kama Ross
    signed via 2019-12-18 14:57:54 -0500
    Kama Ross
  • Jean Knowlton
    signed via 2019-12-18 14:00:40 -0500
    It only benefits the private company by increasing their persona profits. It actually cut well-paying hazard trucking jobs. Pipelines are only safe in theory, in practice they leak, and we should not have to risk it just for personal profits of a private entity. They should go truck it.
  • Brian Walton
    signed via 2019-12-18 13:24:57 -0500
    We should learn from the oil spill in the Gulf.
  • Julie Barker
    signed 2019-12-18 13:20:10 -0500
  • Laura Carter
    signed via 2019-12-18 12:43:01 -0500
  • Matthew Pruitt
    signed via 2019-12-18 11:24:36 -0500
  • Susan Lenfestey
    signed via 2019-12-18 11:22:42 -0500
    Enbridge’s profit is Michigan’s risk. Please decommission Line 5 NOW!
  • Maggie Upson
    signed via 2019-12-18 11:02:49 -0500
  • Mary Bird
    signed via 2019-12-18 10:51:42 -0500
  • Carolyn Al-Qadi
    signed 2019-12-18 10:29:12 -0500
  • Caroline Cheeseman
    signed via 2019-12-18 10:16:11 -0500
    I will not be hosting fundraisers or making any further contributions until there is some positive sign that enbridge, their pipeline, and their tunnel are out of what is really our only asset, our water. Everything else we have depends on that. Enough of money buying our government.
  • Chicory James
    signed via 2019-12-18 09:56:36 -0500
  • Karen Brink
    signed via 2019-12-18 09:07:38 -0500
  • Jennifer Winnell
    signed via 2019-12-18 08:55:39 -0500
  • Peter Schmidt
    signed via 2019-12-18 08:48:45 -0500
  • Susan Jones
    signed via 2019-12-18 08:34:42 -0500
    Governor, please be more aware of our Great Lakes and the serious potential of ruining our fresh water supply due to an aging pipeline! In this case money is not more important than our natural assets!

IMAGE of Mighty Mac & Blue Ice courtesy of Rachel Kramer via Flickr

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