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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, 73-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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  • Suzanne Merchant
    signed 2026-04-06 10:27:46 -0400
  • Danielle Smith
    signed 2026-04-04 18:07:35 -0400
  • Justin Jagger
    signed via 2026-04-04 05:55:19 -0400
  • Margaret Patridge
    signed 2026-04-03 16:08:39 -0400
  • Linnea Lindley
    signed via 2026-04-03 13:41:34 -0400
    So much could go wrong. Why risk irreversible damage to the treasured Great Lakes?
  • Robert Mobley
    signed 2026-04-03 12:38:39 -0400
    No oil line in Mackinac Straight
  • Tom Hy
    signed via 2026-04-03 09:06:01 -0400
  • John Lorand
    signed via 2026-04-02 14:49:22 -0400
  • Yvonne Mathis
    signed 2026-04-02 09:21:02 -0400
    The fresh water lakes and waterways are important to ALL LIVING CREATURES the pipelines need to be stopped to protect life and the planet from human made disasters because of the greed of the big corporations that are more interested in their profits than the protection of our planet. They need to be stopped and held accountable for damages that have been done. And the costs required to correct the problems.
  • Cathy Hadden
    signed via 2026-04-01 20:48:35 -0400
  • Barbara Hastay Weiss
    signed 2026-04-01 20:38:59 -0400
    I hope you preserve our fresh waters and put the line 5 out of commission. The indigenous have guarded our waters for generations. If a spill were to occur in the straits, it would create irrevocable damage. It’s a gamble on so many ecological levels, to allow an oil pipeline to remain under the straits of Mackinac.
  • Darlene Jakusz
    signed 2026-04-01 19:03:45 -0400
  • Brenda Bonfiglio
    signed via 2026-04-01 18:33:05 -0400
  • Jodi Abel
    signed via 2026-04-01 17:40:22 -0400
  • Dustin Peters
    signed 2026-04-01 16:34:52 -0400
  • Fran Selinger
    signed via 2026-04-01 16:33:42 -0400
    This is not just a US concern. The Great Lakes belong to Canada too. Everyone should be worried about LIne 5.
  • Cinda Johansen
    signed 2026-04-01 15:28:57 -0400
    This line needs to be removed and let the land and waters replenish themselves.
  • Susan Baumgartner
    signed via 2026-04-01 15:09:01 -0400
  • Kathy Archambeau
    signed via 2026-04-01 14:13:57 -0400
  • Ramiro Noguerol
    signed 2026-04-01 14:10:25 -0400
  • Elizabeth Butler
    signed 2026-04-01 13:58:56 -0400
    NO pipeline no matter how helpful is worth the danger to our water supply. The water demand is starting to exceed supply. There is no greater needed resource for our LIVES than clean water and we must no longer tale it for granted.
  • Jandy Sprouse
    signed 2026-04-01 13:56:09 -0400
  • Elisabeth Brisebois
    signed 2026-04-01 13:45:40 -0400
  • Claudette Johnson
    signed 2026-04-01 12:32:19 -0400
    Putting profit before protection of one of the world’s greatest assets is PURE STUPIDITY !!!
  • Susan McCarthy
    signed 2026-04-01 12:13:47 -0400
  • Peggy Collins
    signed via 2026-04-01 08:44:17 -0400
  • Prachi Gupta
    signed 2026-03-30 19:54:35 -0400
  • Liz Bell
    signed 2026-03-29 09:02:29 -0400
  • Victoria McClure
    signed via 2026-03-26 17:58:00 -0400
  • Leanne Brodeur
    signed 2026-03-26 11:20:40 -0400

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