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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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  • Donna Deedler
    signed 2019-05-13 23:18:09 -0400
  • Kathy Oppenhuizen
    signed 2019-05-13 22:47:47 -0400
  • Marianne K Fix
    signed 2019-05-13 22:47:35 -0400
  • David Carlson
    signed 2019-05-13 22:41:14 -0400
  • Patricia Cahill
    signed 2019-05-13 22:33:39 -0400
  • Andrew Ranville
    signed 2019-05-13 22:26:56 -0400
  • Fred Rachwitz
    signed 2019-05-13 22:24:58 -0400
  • James Penrod
    signed 2019-05-13 22:24:01 -0400
  • Theresa Rose
    signed 2019-05-13 22:16:57 -0400
  • Brian Hicks
    signed 2019-05-13 22:08:40 -0400
  • Rosemary Dressler
    signed 2019-05-13 22:08:39 -0400
    No line 5. Not good in any way.
  • Judy Bultman
    signed via 2019-05-13 22:05:43 -0400
  • Janet Lively
    signed 2019-05-13 22:04:06 -0400
  • Elizabeth Beaudoin
    signed 2019-05-13 22:02:54 -0400
  • Charlotte Young
    signed 2019-05-13 22:02:43 -0400
  • Patricia Boyt
    signed 2019-05-13 21:59:36 -0400
  • Robert Gamalski
    signed 2019-05-13 21:57:26 -0400
  • Paul Czajka
    signed 2019-05-13 21:47:45 -0400
  • Judy Barker
    signed via 2019-05-13 21:47:18 -0400
    Unacceptable!
  • Steve Jakubiak
    signed via 2019-05-13 21:46:06 -0400
    don’t sell us out Gretchen….we voted for you with this closure in mind
  • Ryan Dybdahl
    signed 2019-05-13 21:46:05 -0400
    If Enbridge and Michigan need the pipeline so badly they want to put a new one in a tunnel under the Straits, how about they build a whole new line to current standards and updated technology. Everyone is holding their breath waiting to see where line 5 will leak next.
  • Patricia Lamb
    signed 2019-05-13 21:44:16 -0400
  • LuAnn Hannasch
    signed 2019-05-13 21:41:20 -0400
  • William Henne
    signed 2019-05-13 21:40:17 -0400
  • Carla Bloom
    signed 2019-05-13 21:37:41 -0400
    Carla Bloom
  • Karen Donahue
    signed 2019-05-13 21:35:44 -0400
    We must end our dependence on fossil fuels. CO2 concentration in the atmosphere just reached 415 parts per million. Decommissioning Line #5 and canceling the tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac are good first steps.
  • Bill Maharan
    signed 2019-05-13 21:28:58 -0400
  • Barbara Kalinka
    signed via 2019-05-13 21:28:21 -0400
    This is not something that we need and does nothing for the good of Michigan. It is just a risky shortcut that endangers the Great Lakes to provide a short cut from Canada to Canada. It is not worth the potential damage that could be done by it.
  • Thomas Porter
    signed 2019-05-13 21:23:37 -0400
    Tom Porter
  • Mark Wygent
    followed this page 2019-05-13 21:17:08 -0400

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