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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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  • David Doub
    signed 2021-10-14 16:13:35 -0400
  • Sue Hooley
    signed 2021-10-14 16:13:16 -0400
  • Gerry Hice
    signed via 2021-10-14 15:27:41 -0400
    We can’t risk polluting our Great Lakes which rules the economy in Michigan as well as the other Great Lake States. The country has already began running out of water in the west again so the largest fresh water source cannot be jeopardized for corporate profits while having a record of lying to the public and lousy maintenance on its pipelines (See Marshall Kalamazoo River spill).
  • Michel Collin
    signed 2021-10-14 14:38:24 -0400
  • David Madrick
    signed via 2021-10-14 14:23:58 -0400
  • Joyce Good
    signed 2021-10-14 13:36:55 -0400
  • Cynthia Madrick
    signed via 2021-10-14 13:33:10 -0400
    Say no to line 5
  • faith eller
    signed 2021-10-14 13:30:54 -0400
  • amy hanley
    signed 2021-10-14 12:44:08 -0400
  • Brooke Timbrel
    signed 2021-10-14 12:30:27 -0400
  • Helen Curp
    signed via 2021-10-14 11:41:51 -0400
  • Anne Hollaway
    signed 2021-10-14 08:37:50 -0400
    We need to rally on this matter, thank you everyone.
  • Riley Vanderford
    signed 2021-10-14 08:07:57 -0400
  • Jordan Strider
    signed 2021-10-14 07:37:43 -0400
  • Meghan Scotti
    signed 2021-10-13 23:27:51 -0400
  • Hillary Colby
    signed 2021-10-13 13:29:44 -0400
  • Alexander Voigt
    signed 2021-10-13 07:47:07 -0400
    Shut er’ down
  • John Carroll
    signed via 2021-10-13 06:37:21 -0400
    Hello Oil and h20 Don’t Mix. The coalition to shut down Line 5 needs to begin training and mobilizing for the same type of direct action that Native Amiercan activists in northern Minnesota are bring to bear against Line 3 there. However, I suggest sending a contingent of protectors to Ottowa, Canada to begin taking opposition straight to Trudeau and the Parliament. Its untenable to even contemplate a break of Line 5 in our Great Lakes. In our mind stirring up opposition to Lines 3 and 5 need to happen concurrently. Combining your petitioning, educational efforts, marching, etc. with being right in downtown Ottowa basically targetting the Enbridge Board Of Directors to reverse court proceedings. Taking Michigan to court ( Enbridge , with Trudeau and Parliament facilitating effort) is a stalling tactic.
  • Rachelle Marshall
    signed via 2021-10-12 21:28:16 -0400
  • Patty Gould
    signed via 2021-10-12 12:08:48 -0400
  • Nicholas Blaettler
    signed via 2021-10-12 11:03:38 -0400
    How dare you & corporate interests threaten the largest fresh water bodies on earth!?!? How about you build the pipeline through your own backyard since I’m sure you’ll posit that the pipeline is safe & won’t rupture or leak.
  • Jennifer Schlicht
    signed via 2021-10-12 10:46:11 -0400
  • Aaron Johnstone
    signed via 2021-10-12 10:41:49 -0400
  • Monica Heymes
    signed via 2021-10-12 10:34:25 -0400
  • Mary Workinger
    signed via 2021-10-12 10:29:30 -0400
    The clock is ticking on an environmental disaster. Please, Shut It Down!
  • Tobias Roberts
    signed via 2021-10-12 08:52:52 -0400
  • Gaelila McKaughan
    signed 2021-10-12 04:14:23 -0400
  • Kendra Angelito
    signed 2021-10-11 19:45:12 -0400
  • Hunter Evitt
    signed 2021-10-11 14:47:04 -0400
  • Katherine M Walker
    signed 2021-10-11 12:46:29 -0400

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