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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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  • Nicholas Bongiorno
    signed 2019-05-23 11:19:28 -0400
  • Steven Jacob
    signed via 2019-05-23 11:12:24 -0400
  • Brielle Chalou
    signed via 2019-05-23 11:08:50 -0400
  • Samantha Thomas
    signed via 2019-05-23 11:07:55 -0400
    THANK YOU FOR PUSHING THIS! <3
  • Lisa J. Baker
    signed 2019-05-23 11:01:20 -0400
    Please, NOTHING to potentially harm our precious water, our precious Great Lakes. Stay strong, Governor Whitmer! You can take this on, make it your legacy.
  • Diana Stone
    signed 2019-05-23 11:00:08 -0400
  • Deborah Bortot
    signed 2019-05-23 10:58:53 -0400
  • Katie Jacob
    signed 2019-05-23 10:57:50 -0400
    Katherine Jacob
  • Dennis Novak
    signed 2019-05-23 10:54:20 -0400
    I went to a presentation in Manistique by Enbridge and found out the horrifying truth that this is a PARTIAL TUNNEL! The tunnel only leads up to the middle of the Straits of Mackinac where the pipes will be anchored in an area that is deep, has swift currents, and freighters (with anchors!) pass above it. Nobody ever mentions or seems to be aware that this is a PARTIAL TUNNEL!!!
  • Janice Scott
    signed 2019-05-23 10:53:25 -0400
  • Kim Scherrer
    signed 2019-05-23 10:51:44 -0400
  • Gary Lea
    signed 2019-05-23 10:51:18 -0400
  • Pam Letourneau
    signed 2019-05-23 10:48:58 -0400
  • Patricia VanDyke
    signed 2019-05-23 10:48:40 -0400
  • Graham Grubb
    signed 2019-05-23 10:45:58 -0400
  • Brooke Nugent
    signed 2019-05-23 10:40:31 -0400
  • Jim Mccauley
    signed 2019-05-23 10:37:20 -0400
    Dear Gov.. Whitmer,

    This is one of the reasons I voted for you. Please do the right thing.

    Thanks,

    Jim McCauley

    Ann Arbor
  • Marya Fischel
    signed 2019-05-23 10:35:18 -0400
    I Love those Lakes and I thank all those who are working to protect them. Me ancestors lived all along the the northern lakes. They would not comprehend this bazaar-ness that has been going on…and for way too long. Thank you! Bless you Dear Water!
  • Terri McCormick
    signed 2019-05-23 10:33:26 -0400
    This can’t wait! Don’t renege on campaign promises.
  • Paul Singer
    signed 2019-05-23 10:29:31 -0400
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    signed 2019-05-23 10:27:31 -0400
  • Susan Allen
    signed 2019-05-23 10:25:40 -0400
  • Amy Fulton
    signed 2019-05-23 10:19:08 -0400
  • Brenda Goode
    signed 2019-05-23 10:16:16 -0400
  • Sherri Brom
    signed 2019-05-23 10:15:30 -0400
  • Denise Mitchell
    signed 2019-05-23 10:15:28 -0400
  • Dale Steichen
    signed 2019-05-23 10:12:15 -0400
  • Kathleen Schacht
    signed 2019-05-23 10:09:49 -0400
  • Laura Lambert
    signed 2019-05-23 10:09:10 -0400
  • Elizabeth Ploghoft
    signed 2019-05-23 10:08:46 -0400

IMAGE of Mighty Mac & Blue Ice courtesy of Rachel Kramer via Flickr

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