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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:

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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  • jan desmet
    signed 2025-03-02 10:30:17 -0500
    I have been supporting gov Whitmer for as many years as she has been in office. This is a sacred area and must be preserved!
  • Susan Menke
    signed 2025-03-02 09:55:54 -0500
  • Laurie Macpherson
    signed 2025-03-02 09:33:16 -0500
  • Kim McKitrick-Thompson
    signed 2025-03-02 09:18:38 -0500
  • Amanda Fritz
    signed via 2025-03-02 08:51:43 -0500
    Protect our Great Lakes!
  • Amanda McCormack
    signed 2025-03-02 08:04:28 -0500
  • Mariah Austin
    signed via 2025-03-01 20:02:34 -0500
  • Rachel Knuehl
    signed via 2025-03-01 19:20:26 -0500
  • Michelle Blanton
    signed via 2025-03-01 16:35:17 -0500
  • Meredith Anderson
    signed via 2025-03-01 16:08:03 -0500
  • Lisa Hare
    signed via 2025-03-01 15:43:15 -0500
  • Justin Graham
    signed via 2025-03-01 12:45:07 -0500
    MI
  • Hannah Desmet
    signed 2025-03-01 11:59:34 -0500
  • Miranda McAllister
    signed via 2025-03-01 10:33:10 -0500
  • Kelly Wheaton
    signed via 2025-03-01 09:59:33 -0500
  • Laurie Church
    signed 2025-02-28 18:22:27 -0500
    Do not let this happen!!
  • Enzo Garcia
    signed via 2025-02-28 18:16:15 -0500
  • Kathryn Hopcian
    signed via 2025-02-28 18:03:10 -0500
  • Marta Kermiet
    signed 2025-02-28 11:18:39 -0500
    The disastrous economic impact of allowing a project that will eventually lead to a spill into the largest source if fresh water in the world far outweighs any short term benefit to the economy. The impact of an oil spill on nature would be unfixable. There would be no more PURE MICHIGAN. It’s a ticking time bomb. Shut it down without any more delay.
  • Rachel Bitzer
    signed 2025-02-28 07:41:52 -0500
  • Christine Tindall
    signed 2025-02-28 01:19:15 -0500
  • Kevin McGinley
    signed 2025-02-28 00:06:27 -0500
  • Ann Rogers
    signed 2025-02-27 12:19:25 -0500
  • Lori Tomolak
    signed via 2025-02-27 10:53:28 -0500
  • Tiffany Ferrier
    signed 2025-02-27 09:19:11 -0500
  • Noel Heiser
    signed 2025-02-26 21:40:16 -0500
  • Jackie Ferriby
    signed via 2025-02-26 20:10:09 -0500
  • Christel Jorgenson
    signed 2025-02-26 15:21:10 -0500
  • Mary Ahles
    signed via 2025-02-25 16:24:09 -0500
  • Joseph Alvarado
    signed 2025-02-25 13:46:24 -0500
    RES IPSA LOQUITUR, LONG OVERDUE, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!

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