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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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  • Rob Jenkin
    signed 2019-05-13 15:52:47 -0400
  • Richard Brown
    signed 2019-05-13 15:50:08 -0400
  • Jeryl Colby
    signed 2019-05-13 15:49:24 -0400
  • Robert McGillicuddy
    signed 2019-05-13 15:47:23 -0400
  • William Perault
    signed via 2019-05-13 15:45:41 -0400
    I use to be for having a “Utility Corridor” because it was for the publics good.

    Now that the Vice President of ATC has made a very important and overlooked statement;

    ATC cannot see placing high-power electrical transmission lines within feet of high pressured oil and gas lines in a confined tunnel”

    I can no longer see a authentic reason for the tunnel, as it is no longer a “Utility Corridor”.

    As a resident Native American Citizen of the Sault Ste Marie Tribe of Chippewa, I cannot see how a tunnel can be approved without tribal consent, for without tribal consent, it is a violation of several federal treaties that give tribes authority in this situation due to the aforementioned treaties.

    It’s time to keep your promise you made that encouraged the vote I casted for you.

    Your Attorney General found many unconstitutional issues not including the multi-violations of Federal Treaties….

    Keep Your Promise or I Promise I Won’t Help You To Be Elected To A Second Term. . .
  • Beverley Cairns
    signed 2019-05-13 15:43:19 -0400
  • Patrick Cooper-McCann
    signed 2019-05-13 15:42:48 -0400
  • Evelyn Rohs
    signed 2019-05-13 15:41:19 -0400
    One of the most important reasons I supported Whitmer was that she seemed willing to set an end to Line 5. Very disappointed and desillusioned.
  • Erin Johns
    signed via 2019-05-13 15:40:25 -0400
  • Sean Clark
    signed 2019-05-13 15:32:19 -0400
  • Opal Singh
    signed 2019-05-13 15:31:07 -0400
  • Tim Price
    signed via 2019-05-13 15:26:45 -0400
  • Katharine Douglass-Harris
    signed via 2019-05-13 15:25:07 -0400
  • Joan Simmons
    signed via 2019-05-13 15:24:23 -0400
  • Freya Goldstein
    signed 2019-05-13 15:24:20 -0400
  • Linda Smith
    signed via 2019-05-13 15:16:50 -0400
  • Jeremy Hang
    signed 2019-05-13 15:12:54 -0400
  • Tresa Harrington
    signed 2019-05-13 15:11:41 -0400
  • Carol van Dyke
    signed 2019-05-13 15:10:16 -0400
  • Ren Brabenec
    signed 2019-05-13 15:10:13 -0400
  • Nicholas Kavalec
    signed 2019-05-13 15:08:40 -0400
  • Sara Leopold
    signed 2019-05-13 15:04:01 -0400
  • Jane Speer
    signed 2019-05-13 15:00:55 -0400
  • Patrick Nolan
    signed 2019-05-13 14:59:28 -0400
  • James Nelson
    signed 2019-05-13 14:58:27 -0400
    Propane can be supplied to the UP without Line 5. Virtually everything else serves the interest of the pollution hot spot Sarnia – NOT the

    people of Michigan.
  • Martha Phillips
    signed 2019-05-13 14:55:38 -0400
    The time is now to shut down Pipeline 5! Why risk the health and safety of our Great Lakes fort the small amount of oil Michigan even receives. Let’s find better, safer, more energy efficient ways for our chokdren and future generations. Thank you—Martha Phillios
  • Chris Morrow
    signed 2019-05-13 14:54:39 -0400
  • Tom Kenney
    signed via 2019-05-13 14:54:29 -0400
  • Sandy Baylis
    signed 2019-05-13 14:54:00 -0400
  • Michael Romzick
    signed 2019-05-13 14:52:46 -0400

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