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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:

An oil tunnel through the public bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac won’t protect the Great Lakes from a 645-mile long, 73-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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  • Christina Kionka
    signed 2019-05-19 06:15:34 -0400
    Christina Kionka
  • Aj Alexander
    signed 2019-05-19 05:09:23 -0400
    I grew up in Michigan and the lakes were incredibly important to me. I spent summers there, and they were a fabric of my life. A leaking pipeline shouldn’t be simply covered with a tunnel like a distasteful spot on the rug. We need action that will stop this once and for all.
  • Steven Schumann
    signed via 2019-05-19 02:05:49 -0400
  • Kimberly Trierweiler
    signed via 2019-05-18 23:19:17 -0400
  • Walter Routhier
    signed via 2019-05-18 22:52:21 -0400
  • Debra Cline-Stuber
    signed via 2019-05-18 22:26:41 -0400
  • Nancy Szatkowski
    signed via 2019-05-18 22:20:21 -0400
  • Terry Koons
    signed via 2019-05-18 21:57:07 -0400
  • Connie Swinger
    signed 2019-05-18 21:19:32 -0400
  • Kay VanSickle
    signed via 2019-05-18 21:17:15 -0400
  • Theresa Phillips
    signed via 2019-05-18 21:00:49 -0400
    Husband was a pipe layer. SAYS DON’T DO IT!!!
  • Dona Biggs
    signed via 2019-05-18 20:57:58 -0400
  • Steve Zacharias
    signed 2019-05-18 20:31:46 -0400
  • sally rutzky
    signed via 2019-05-18 16:57:37 -0400
  • Alan VanderPaas
    signed 2019-05-18 15:45:52 -0400
    I support this initiative to stop a tunnel for Enbridge Oil Line 5. Get the oil out of our water now. Alan VanderPaas
  • Owen Goslin
    signed 2019-05-18 14:38:39 -0400
  • Kevin Smith
    signed via 2019-05-18 14:28:00 -0400
  • Charlene Trevorrow
    signed via 2019-05-18 14:16:00 -0400
    Too many people rely on the Great Lakes for their water. 20% of the worlds fresh water are in our Great Lakes. A tunnel will NOT STOP any oil mishaps from happening. GET THOSE PIPELINES OUT OF OUR FRESH WATER LAKES! Now!
  • Mary Smith
    signed via 2019-05-18 13:52:25 -0400
    Please protect our water and beautiful lands in this great state!
  • Betty Carnes
    signed via 2019-05-18 12:43:28 -0400
  • Leonard Page
    signed 2019-05-18 10:40:51 -0400
    Leonard Page
  • kathy fettig
    signed via 2019-05-18 10:35:26 -0400
    kathy fettig
  • Cyndi Nelson
    signed 2019-05-18 10:28:29 -0400
  • Karen Conner-Beck
    signed 2019-05-18 09:53:52 -0400
  • Leslie Legge
    signed via 2019-05-18 08:56:50 -0400
  • Ann Kuhlman
    signed via 2019-05-18 08:41:44 -0400
  • Daniel Dine
    signed 2019-05-18 08:33:25 -0400
  • Michael Bomer
    signed 2019-05-18 07:34:44 -0400
  • Brenda Jellies
    signed via 2019-05-18 07:29:50 -0400
  • Julie Reynolds
    signed via 2019-05-18 06:16:42 -0400
    We must protect the largest body of fresh water in the world. These under water or ground pipes or tunnels will allow for a rupture to spill how many millions or billions of gallons of oil before either it is noticed or found? Enbridge can reroute these lines and bring them through their own Canadian land.

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

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