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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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  • Amelie Dawson
    signed via 2019-12-17 08:32:02 -0500
  • Derek Shiels
    signed 2019-12-17 08:27:39 -0500
  • Sarah Cohen
    signed 2019-12-17 08:27:18 -0500
  • Cheryl Staats
    signed 2019-12-17 08:20:41 -0500
  • Anne Srigley
    signed 2019-12-17 08:05:29 -0500
  • Don Wellman
    signed via 2019-12-17 08:05:26 -0500
    Even though you’re behaving dangerously/digging disastrously at the top of the mitten, we feel the hurt down here in the fleshy base of the thumb (AKA: Thenar Eminence).
  • Samuel Pappas
    signed 2019-12-17 07:59:41 -0500
  • Terry Link
    signed via 2019-12-17 07:54:46 -0500
  • ryan barrett
    signed 2019-12-17 07:40:40 -0500
  • Renee Emelander
    signed via 2019-12-17 07:23:03 -0500
    I can not believe it could ever happen! Why is it worth all that is pure? Why take the risks?
  • Mary Rapin
    signed 2019-12-17 06:06:16 -0500
  • Elizabeth Greenwald
    signed via 2019-12-16 22:37:56 -0500
  • Susan Koenig
    signed 2019-12-16 22:24:43 -0500
  • D.Jeffery Uloth
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  • Cassie Dusseau
    signed via 2019-12-16 21:56:48 -0500
  • Jean Gramlich
    signed 2019-12-16 21:53:03 -0500
  • Lisa Judge
    signed via 2019-12-16 21:52:16 -0500
  • Felicia Swirczek
    signed via 2019-12-16 21:41:53 -0500
  • Kevin Rader
    signed 2019-12-16 21:30:43 -0500
  • Melissa Weimer
    signed via 2019-12-16 20:55:15 -0500
    Melissa Lee Weimer
  • Paula Denissen
    signed via 2019-12-16 20:43:47 -0500
  • Adel Easterday
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  • Adel Easterday
    signed via 2019-12-16 20:20:30 -0500
    I wake up in a sweat when the wind howls. I picture that rotting 65 year old pipeline full of oil under pressure just being tossed back and forth across the bottom of the lake bed in currents as strong as those at Niagara Falls. I don’t understand why anyone would risk our beautiful Straits of Mackinaw. I know the Canadians do it for profit. Why would anyone living in Michigan ever allow this to continue? I will never understand it.
  • Gayle Miller
    signed via 2019-12-16 20:18:07 -0500
    Gayle L Miller
  • Martha Mikko
    signed via 2019-12-16 20:17:57 -0500
  • Bobie Crongeyer
    signed via 2019-12-16 19:56:57 -0500
  • Kim Martin
    signed via 2019-12-16 19:49:53 -0500
  • Mary A. Comar
    signed 2019-12-16 19:16:55 -0500
    The Straits of Mackinaw have the most turbulent currents in the Great Lakes where the waters of Lake Michigan and Lake Huron collide. Therefore any disturbance of the seabed by constructing a tunnel let alone the continued use of a deteriorating oil pipeline, in all logic and wisdom, must be halted. The Great Lakes are fresh water blessing to be protected. We need the Great Lakes for drinking, bathing, fishing, and recreational and commercial transportation. The risks of contamination are real, played out elsewhere regularly, making the delay of shutting down line 5, negligence of duty in the face of pending disaster.
  • Corrine Johnston
    signed via 2019-12-16 19:01:13 -0500
  • Gail Dennis
    signed via 2019-12-16 18:54:33 -0500
    Gail Dennis

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