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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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  • Madison Young
    signed 2019-05-15 08:40:45 -0400
  • Graham BeVier
    signed 2019-05-15 08:27:16 -0400
  • Sean Martineau
    signed 2019-05-15 08:20:38 -0400
  • Charyl Krause
    signed via 2019-05-15 08:07:28 -0400
  • Russ Packard
    signed via 2019-05-15 07:57:32 -0400
  • Rachel Wiens
    signed 2019-05-15 07:46:52 -0400
    Please do not put our delicate ecosystems and diverse wild life at further risk for a dying resource! Please support more green energy initiatives rather than such a detrimental short term risk!
  • Linda Zielke
    signed via 2019-05-15 07:32:41 -0400
  • Janet L Vogel Wife
    signed via 2019-05-15 07:12:08 -0400
    Actually, the name sort of says it all. Oil and water don’t mix. I will add too that old pipelines do fail, old pipelines do rust.
  • Leonard Fieber
    signed 2019-05-15 06:30:24 -0400
    We need to shut line 5 and take the money to be spent on the tunnel; use this money for rentable energy sources.
  • Jennifer Kuehle
    signed via 2019-05-15 06:16:28 -0400
  • Sandra Lintz
    signed via 2019-05-15 05:50:21 -0400
    Michigan is not pure but we can prevent oil disasters. Keep Michigan waters clean.
  • Bridget Gotham
    signed 2019-05-15 00:34:21 -0400
  • Bernard McFarren
    signed via 2019-05-15 00:32:37 -0400
  • Barbara Tholin
    signed 2019-05-15 00:19:41 -0400
  • Diane Van Sickle
    signed via 2019-05-15 00:16:43 -0400
  • Gabe Stanziani
    signed 2019-05-14 23:53:51 -0400
  • Shirley FoxSimon
    signed via 2019-05-14 23:42:44 -0400
  • Tracy Goodart
    signed via 2019-05-14 23:42:09 -0400
    Our Great Lakes hold one-fifth of the world’s freshwater. This is entirely too risky.
  • Christine Danner
    signed via 2019-05-14 23:40:55 -0400
  • Lee Fitzgerald
    signed via 2019-05-14 22:50:42 -0400
  • Randy Wojtowicz
    signed 2019-05-14 22:45:48 -0400
  • Kathi (Mary Kathleen) Beiswenger
    signed 2019-05-14 22:44:28 -0400
    Please, PROTECT THE Great Lakes!
  • Carol Speirs
    signed 2019-05-14 22:30:12 -0400
    Amen. Do you know The investigative “Commission”, the former Gov Snyder had put together to check into the whole matter, DID NOT. do their own VISUAL inspections? Also, they gathered most of their info from Enbridge itself. “Sleeping w/ the enemy”?

    The "Commission"’s biggest concern was VORTEX VIBRATIONS. Would building such a tunnel create such vibrations?
  • James Shook
    signed 2019-05-14 22:19:27 -0400
  • Beverly Levitt
    signed 2019-05-14 22:09:49 -0400
  • Mary Jane Schuon
    signed 2019-05-14 21:32:54 -0400
  • Carrie Bailey
    signed 2019-05-14 21:27:45 -0400
    Carrie Bailey
  • Doug Krause
    signed 2019-05-14 20:31:28 -0400
  • Judith Bemis
    signed 2019-05-14 20:26:27 -0400
  • Taylor Thomas
    signed via 2019-05-14 19:48:49 -0400

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

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