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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 & Secretary Buttigieg:

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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  • Mireya Perez
    signed via 2019-05-29 18:31:18 -0400
  • Matthew Dambrun
    signed via 2019-05-29 18:29:01 -0400
    The evidence is clear that this transit route presents grave risk to the vital interests of the state, that meaning the health and sustainability of our Great Lakes
  • Leah Michels
    signed via 2019-05-29 18:14:36 -0400
  • Linda Opipari
    signed via 2019-05-29 18:09:20 -0400
  • Diana Zeeryp
    signed 2019-05-29 18:05:04 -0400
  • Moriah Gonzalez
    signed via 2019-05-29 17:33:55 -0400
  • Susan Aune
    signed via 2019-05-29 17:33:53 -0400
    Please save our natural resources!! This would be catastrophic and its wrong! Dont allow greed to ruin this state!!
  • Margaretann Simon
    signed 2019-05-29 17:18:59 -0400
    Do you choose life of genocide . I vote life and if you don’t , you might be a genocider.
  • Renee Guido
    signed via 2019-05-29 17:10:28 -0400
  • Cynthia Scalici
    signed 2019-05-29 17:05:14 -0400
    Cynthia Scalici
  • Karen Shay
    signed 2019-05-29 16:35:15 -0400
  • Maggie Tharp
    signed via 2019-05-29 16:12:01 -0400
  • Paul Karas
    signed via 2019-05-29 15:55:59 -0400
    Paul Karas
  • Kristy Tilson
    signed via 2019-05-29 15:53:58 -0400
  • Julie Alberding
    signed 2019-05-29 15:37:44 -0400
  • carolphillips269@gmail.com Phillips
    signed via 2019-05-29 15:36:50 -0400
  • Kathy Kibbie
    signed via 2019-05-29 15:33:03 -0400
    Shut it down.
  • Dennie Kurzawa
    signed via 2019-05-29 15:29:17 -0400
  • G Norris
    signed via 2019-05-29 15:24:54 -0400
  • Linda Rector
    signed via 2019-05-29 15:16:16 -0400
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  • Susan Smith
    signed 2019-05-29 15:12:27 -0400
  • Christine Yancy
    signed 2019-05-29 14:54:06 -0400
    Please stand with the people of Michigan and protect our Great Lakes!
  • Kimberly Young
    signed via 2019-05-29 14:44:13 -0400
  • Anita Hunt
    signed via 2019-05-29 14:33:08 -0400
  • Laurie Leinbach
    signed via 2019-05-29 14:32:54 -0400
  • Patrick Hershberger
    signed via 2019-05-29 14:15:01 -0400
  • Benjamin Henderson
    signed via 2019-05-29 14:11:43 -0400
    Benjamin T Henderson
  • Diane H. Fabian
    signed 2019-05-29 13:46:21 -0400
  • Jerry Bierens
    signed via 2019-05-29 13:43:30 -0400
    Jerry Bierens
  • David Whitenight
    signed via 2019-05-29 13:41:14 -0400
    I am against any pipeline that goes under or over our precious great lakes. I remember the BP disaster and how hard it was to clean the mess up the birds and other animals full of oil and eventually die. How it impacted the local economies and the small business communities including those who fish for a living or sport! Snyder knew all this and suspected if a Democrat won the Governor seat they would not reach an agreement with Enbridge that would be so beneficial to them. I live in Marysville and get my drinking water from the St. Clair river which Snyder agreed to put a line under going to Canada! If the oil starts in Canada why does it have to go through the heart of Michigan only to end up in Canada?

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

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