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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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  • Bobbi Varaljai
    signed 2019-05-13 13:11:28 -0400
  • Marge Chesney
    signed 2019-05-13 13:10:56 -0400
  • Evan Martin
    signed 2019-05-13 13:09:53 -0400
  • Paul McKinley
    signed 2019-05-13 13:08:59 -0400
  • Chris Anderson
    signed 2019-05-13 13:06:06 -0400
  • Susan Liebetreu
    signed 2019-05-13 13:05:28 -0400
  • Sarah Brown
    signed 2019-05-13 13:05:15 -0400
  • Robert Learner
    signed 2019-05-13 13:03:35 -0400
  • Elizabeth Mostrom
    signed 2019-05-13 12:59:41 -0400
  • Mary Beth Gentry
    signed 2019-05-13 12:59:06 -0400
  • Jim Morrison
    signed 2019-05-13 12:58:19 -0400
  • Martin Weaver
    signed via 2019-05-13 12:57:46 -0400
    Our water is more valuable than any company’s profits.
  • David Goff
    signed 2019-05-13 12:56:32 -0400
  • Kristen Lagos
    signed 2019-05-13 12:56:12 -0400
  • Stephanie Wagenborg
    signed 2019-05-13 12:53:44 -0400
  • Patrick Linton
    signed 2019-05-13 12:51:40 -0400
    The risks and costs to another probable leak/break in line 5 along its route through Michigan far outweigh the small benefits to Michigan and its citizens. Let Enbridge find an alternate route through Canada. Please, no tunnel.
  • Roland Vandersys
    signed 2019-05-13 12:51:39 -0400
    Protect our GREAT LAKES FOR ALL They are there for the FUTURE OF MANY
  • Nancy Gustafson
    signed 2019-05-13 12:51:35 -0400
  • Paris Fleezanis
    signed 2019-05-13 12:51:32 -0400
  • Joe Zook
    signed 2019-05-13 12:51:18 -0400
  • Abe Martin
    signed 2019-05-13 12:50:25 -0400
    Stop poisoning us for your profits !
  • John Llewellyn
    signed 2019-05-13 12:49:42 -0400
  • Margit Boronkay
    signed 2019-05-13 12:48:55 -0400
    We have to muster the courage & creativity to transition from oil to renewables. It took 13 years to transition from horse-and-buggy to the automotive era. It was tough, but it was doable & once rolling, inevitable. The same holds true here. Identify the innovators & empower them to lead us.
  • Elena Wakeman
    signed 2019-05-13 12:46:50 -0400
    Knowing what we ALL know now about oil pipelines, I’m amazed that they still are proposing this in one of the Great Lakes. No, no, no, no, no. We can’t make a new Great Lake when the spill happens, not if, when. No.
  • Jennifer Colagiovanni
    signed 2019-05-13 12:46:20 -0400
  • Janet Anderson
    signed 2019-05-13 12:46:17 -0400
  • james Larsen
    signed 2019-05-13 12:45:14 -0400
    no tunnel
  • Bill Shallman
    signed 2019-05-13 12:44:29 -0400
  • Ram Lee
    signed 2019-05-13 12:44:25 -0400
  • Victoria Gershon
    signed 2019-05-13 12:44:08 -0400
    Victoria Gershon

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