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This is how we make our government accountable to the people. We'll deliver your signature to tell Gov. Whitmer and Sec. Buttigieg, the will of the people is to #ShutDownLine5

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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  • Patricia Adams
    signed 2019-06-11 09:07:36 -0400
  • Rebecca J Smith-Miles
    signed 2019-06-11 08:25:31 -0400
    Keeping Line 5 open is like loading the gun to shoot ourselves.
  • Mary Scholl
    signed via 2019-06-11 08:07:57 -0400
  • Suzy Richardson
    signed 2019-06-10 15:28:57 -0400
  • Genevieve Neirink
    signed 2019-06-10 14:22:38 -0400
    Genevieve E Neirink
  • Gert Thiry
    signed 2019-06-09 17:15:22 -0400
  • Aj Henry
    signed 2019-06-08 22:27:17 -0400
  • Cara Spindler
    signed 2019-06-08 21:58:00 -0400
  • Anna Jones
    signed 2019-06-08 20:55:59 -0400
  • Becky Hill
    signed 2019-06-08 20:05:48 -0400
    My family has had homes/tents in Michigan since 1914. My great aunts helped settle the area on the east coast of Burt Lake, and my husband and I now own that property. We also lived in Marshall, MI for 14 years where Enbridge left an horrific impact. Line 5 is a very short distance from our cottage; this line needs to be shut down followed by thorough cleansing of all the trash it leaves behind. Line 5 is a disgrace; Enbridge needs to stop messing around and do what is right: NO OIL lines in the straits!
  • Syma Echeandia
    signed 2019-06-08 12:58:02 -0400
  • Maryann Borden
    signed 2019-06-08 08:29:07 -0400
  • Cheryl Paul
    signed 2019-06-08 08:07:51 -0400
    NO TUNNEL!!!
  • Kathy ray
    signed 2019-06-08 03:46:14 -0400
  • Malinda Hudkins
    signed via 2019-06-07 21:13:26 -0400
  • Michael Sage
    signed 2019-06-07 20:48:16 -0400
    Michael Sage
  • Ann Coll8 s
    signed via 2019-06-07 20:26:41 -0400
  • Linda Prostko
    signed 2019-06-07 19:48:31 -0400
    Linda Prostko
  • Donna Oliphant
    signed via 2019-06-07 19:32:51 -0400
  • Betsy Walbridge
    signed via 2019-06-07 19:31:22 -0400
  • Lori LaFave
    signed via 2019-06-07 19:22:45 -0400
  • Beverly Peince
    signed via 2019-06-07 19:21:51 -0400
  • Elizabeth Bols
    signed via 2019-06-07 19:11:34 -0400
  • Jessica Axe
    signed via 2019-06-07 19:09:47 -0400
  • Lynne Wardrop
    signed via 2019-06-07 18:51:49 -0400
  • Judith Robertson
    signed via 2019-06-07 18:46:37 -0400
    NO WAY WE WANT THIS OIL PIPELINE & THREATS TO OUR GREAT LAKES! STOP THIS NOW SO WE DO NOT BECOME A DISASTER LIKE SOUTH DAKOTAS OIL PIPE SPILLS & BREAKS
  • Alyx Bilyeu
    signed 2019-06-07 18:44:20 -0400
  • Barb VanNoord
    signed via 2019-06-07 18:41:23 -0400
  • Austin Unseld
    signed via 2019-06-07 18:39:46 -0400
  • Patrick Crimmins
    signed via 2019-06-07 18:24:00 -0400

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