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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 & Secretary Buttigieg:

An oil tunnel through the public bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac won’t protect the Great Lakes from a 645-mile long, 71-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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  • Susan Welsford
    signed 2025-02-02 08:26:12 -0500
  • Julie Renner
    signed 2025-02-02 07:45:44 -0500
  • Sheila Morway
    signed 2025-02-02 06:11:22 -0500
  • Ronnie Byrnes
    signed 2025-01-30 01:01:04 -0500
  • Paula Hampton
    signed 2025-01-29 18:25:12 -0500
  • Judith Elzinga
    signed 2025-01-29 12:18:57 -0500
    Canada’s Enbridge needs to build a pipeline through Canada’s interior. If it spills there, it won’t be our problem and most important, it won’t affect our lakes.
  • Larry Gephart
    signed 2025-01-29 09:41:56 -0500
    Decommissioning the line now is the only way to do your duty and protect the Great Lakes. Talk about a tunnel as a new project and it will never pass the smell test.
  • Bari Hoskins
    signed 2025-01-28 17:21:30 -0500
  • Sofia Di Loreto
    signed 2025-01-28 17:05:37 -0500
  • John Lacey
    signed 2025-01-28 15:17:56 -0500
  • Maggie Stagner
    signed 2025-01-28 09:44:03 -0500
  • Jennifer Kulinski
    signed 2025-01-28 07:56:55 -0500
  • Matthew Rotar
    signed 2025-01-27 22:12:29 -0500
  • Irene Bsrrie
    signed 2025-01-27 21:26:51 -0500
  • Brenda Swalm
    signed 2025-01-27 18:29:45 -0500
  • Leda Raptis
    signed 2025-01-27 15:56:28 -0500
  • Judith Salazar
    signed 2025-01-27 15:37:19 -0500
  • Marissa Ezinga
    signed via 2025-01-27 15:05:19 -0500
  • Carol Christensen
    signed via 2025-01-27 14:00:52 -0500
  • Renee Baumunk
    signed 2025-01-27 12:33:38 -0500
    PLEASE do not allow Enbridge a permit to continue their ridiculous tunnel scheme. Water is Life and NOTHING is more important than clean water….Thank you for your strength and service.
  • Cheryl Beyer
    signed via 2025-01-25 09:02:34 -0500
  • Kathleen McElligatt
    signed via 2025-01-22 19:49:07 -0500
    I was born and raised in Detroit + vacation in either Glen Arbor or Traverse City. Michigan is one of the most beautiful states with the most pristine lakes and beaches. The environment should be preserved at all costs and never threatened.
  • Kappy Pennington
    signed via 2025-01-22 19:04:59 -0500
    Our Great Lakes are a treasure. Please stop Enbridge now.
  • Brenda Earl
    signed 2025-01-22 18:04:23 -0500
  • Randy Wojtowicz
    signed 2025-01-22 15:52:08 -0500
  • Elin Bastianelli
    signed 2025-01-22 15:22:28 -0500
  • Deborah Conner
    signed 2025-01-22 14:30:20 -0500
    For decades they’ve turned their back on any natural resource preservation! Please save the future for generations. God bless you.
  • Norman Hayes
    signed 2025-01-22 12:28:39 -0500
  • Connie Metcalf
    signed 2025-01-22 12:27:22 -0500
  • Amy Reinartz
    signed 2025-01-22 12:26:37 -0500

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