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This is how we make our government accountable to the people. We'll deliver your signature to tell Gov. Whitmer and Sec. Buttigieg, the will of the people is to #ShutDownLine5

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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  • Bree Boler
    signed via 2019-05-24 18:08:10 -0400
    We do not need to destroy the planet for fossil fuels when there is plenty of good green energy that can be produced cleaner and quicker!
  • Richard Uhde
    signed 2019-05-24 18:02:42 -0400
  • Essie Adrian
    signed 2019-05-24 17:13:01 -0400
    I heard you say that you are concerned about our Great Lakes and I hope that you will shut down this pipeline. It is older than the line that spoiled so much of the Kalamazoo River. Why let them spoil the whole Great Lakes?
  • Veronica Williams
    signed via 2019-05-24 16:56:45 -0400
  • codey young
    signed via 2019-05-24 16:49:50 -0400
  • Cynthia Israels
    signed via 2019-05-24 16:48:12 -0400
  • Erin Glezman
    signed via 2019-05-24 16:47:29 -0400
  • Aaron Lewis
    signed via 2019-05-24 16:30:08 -0400
  • Nick Allston
    signed via 2019-05-24 16:17:49 -0400
  • Yash Matharu
    signed 2019-05-24 15:26:49 -0400
  • Leslie Mitchell
    signed via 2019-05-24 15:19:18 -0400
    Didn’t you say when you campaigned, no pipe 5 line? Why would you even negotiate this with Enbridge?
  • Veronica Shreve
    signed via 2019-05-24 15:10:34 -0400
  • Justin Grover
    signed 2019-05-24 14:24:40 -0400
    Justin Grover
  • Sherri Gondoly
    signed via 2019-05-24 14:03:23 -0400
  • Teresa Arnold
    signed via 2019-05-24 13:57:13 -0400
  • Derek Dempster
    signed 2019-05-24 13:35:51 -0400
  • Colleen Rohloff
    signed 2019-05-24 13:14:48 -0400
  • Harold Slater
    signed via 2019-05-24 12:10:47 -0400
    Protect Michigan’s environment against industrial

    “accidents.” Shut down Line 5 and block proposed oil tunnel.
  • Raymond Holtslander
    signed via 2019-05-24 11:59:03 -0400
  • Craig Engwall
    signed 2019-05-24 11:45:03 -0400
    Governor Whitmer, I appreciate WE allowed this complicated situation to happen in the first place. Science now details the horrific consequences of even the slightest breach of this pipeline. Today an opportunity exists to eliminate this threat. Respectfully- it’s on you now- continue to make some money OR perpetuate the potential to destroy 1/5 of the Earths fresh water? Please SHUT DOWN Line 5.
  • Donna Dutton
    signed 2019-05-24 11:29:31 -0400
  • Maureen Lattimore
    signed 2019-05-24 10:57:29 -0400
    Maureen Lattimore
  • Mitchell Lettow
    signed via 2019-05-24 10:54:22 -0400
  • Suzan Bergeron
    signed via 2019-05-24 10:53:39 -0400
  • Payton Orr
    signed via 2019-05-24 10:44:31 -0400
  • Dennis Oneill
    signed 2019-05-24 10:17:32 -0400
  • Carol Drake
    signed via 2019-05-24 10:00:35 -0400
  • Matthew Herrington
    signed 2019-05-24 09:52:20 -0400
  • Becky VanDyke
    signed via 2019-05-24 09:48:45 -0400
  • Nicole Watson
    signed 2019-05-24 09:35:36 -0400

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