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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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  • Jessica Kohler
    signed via 2019-05-19 17:13:28 -0400
  • Barb Margolis
    signed via 2019-05-19 16:56:46 -0400
    Big Oil $$$$$$$$ what happened to the alternatives to oil? We only hear about them when their. Is an election. When will we ever learn?
  • Clydine Clendennin
    signed 2019-05-19 16:46:04 -0400
    Find a way that doesn’t damage our environment of this beautiful state…People over big business
  • Judith Vandenboom
    signed 2019-05-19 16:21:51 -0400
    We can’t take the risk of ruining the watet
  • Deb Max
    signed via 2019-05-19 16:19:54 -0400
  • Heath Post
    signed 2019-05-19 16:10:45 -0400
  • Brigid Johnson
    signed via 2019-05-19 16:09:00 -0400
  • Gerald Keen
    signed via 2019-05-19 16:05:03 -0400
  • margaret szypulski
    signed 2019-05-19 15:57:34 -0400
    margaret szypulski
  • Bob Railey
    signed 2019-05-19 15:36:26 -0400
    To allow Enbridge to continue operating the Line 5 pipeline during the approx. 10 years required to build the protecting tunnel is inviting disaster. Cleanup of the Enbridge spill downstate is still costing MI lots of money. By their past operations, Enbridge has clearly demonstrated that they cannot be trusted.
  • Tina Montgomery
    signed 2019-05-19 15:31:49 -0400
  • Kim Brazeau
    signed 2019-05-19 15:06:21 -0400
  • William Weiswasser
    signed via 2019-05-19 14:56:11 -0400
    I am a US citizen resident for family reason in Canada, voting in my birth state of Michigan.

    The oil companies cannot and should not be trusted to put ecological integrity over their short term profits.

    William Weiswasser
  • Peggy Gerou
    signed 2019-05-19 14:49:34 -0400
    Peggy Gerou
  • Christine Monhollen
    signed 2019-05-19 14:47:56 -0400
  • Sara Kendall
    signed 2019-05-19 14:29:18 -0400
  • Gregory Campbell
    signed via 2019-05-19 14:04:59 -0400
  • peggy derouin
    signed via 2019-05-19 13:23:31 -0400
  • Janice Charter
    signed via 2019-05-19 13:05:33 -0400
    Janice Charter
  • Karen Pettke
    signed 2019-05-19 13:02:06 -0400
    Dear Gov. Whitmer, Based on what you have already been doing I know you will do everything possible to protect the Great Lakes.
  • Joanne Tioran
    signed 2019-05-19 12:55:09 -0400
  • Sean Weitz
    signed via 2019-05-19 12:52:19 -0400
  • Alicia LeJeune
    signed via 2019-05-19 12:51:55 -0400
    The Great Lakes are so integral to the survival of not only Michigan but the very heartland of the Nation any threat to them is a threat to the survival of our Nation. As we have all seen in the past oil and water don’t mix. Without the Great Lakes the is no Michigan. We need to protect and preserve our greatest natural resource and our State’s identity, we are after all, the Great Lakes State.
  • Robin Whitaker
    signed 2019-05-19 12:41:09 -0400
    Robin Whitaker
  • Steven Sy
    signed 2019-05-19 12:35:53 -0400
  • Barbara Kantola
    signed 2019-05-19 12:14:11 -0400
  • Shannon Parkinson
    signed via 2019-05-19 12:13:54 -0400
  • Jill Berley
    signed 2019-05-19 12:07:37 -0400
  • Jackie Kerr
    signed 2019-05-19 11:54:41 -0400
    Jackie Kerr
  • Patrick Livingston
    signed 2019-05-19 11:53:09 -0400
    Patrick Livingston

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