SIGN THE PETITION
This is how we make our government accountable to the people. We'll deliver your signature to tell Gov. Whitmer 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.
Sign 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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Don’t allow this to happen at all. Our Fresh Water Supply in the Great Lakes is way too precious to take chances on.
Thank You,
Your Constituent,
Kathryn Sensat
Bronson MI 49028
NO TUNNEL!
Furthermore, all new fossil fuel infrastructure (or other potentially polluting industry, for that matter) must put up a bond in escrow sufficient to pay for the decommissioning, disassembly, and remediation of that facility, before the license is issued to begin operation. That bond must be paid off by a Garnishment of a percentage of gross operating revenue sufficient to fully fund the decommissioning in half the contracted lifetime of the facility.
Also, there should be established a fixed cap on the total cumulative emission of pollutants from the facility, and any emission in excess of that cap will trigger the immediate permanent shutdown, decommissioning, and remediation, funded by the escrow.