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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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  • Ryan Dybdahl
    signed 2019-05-13 21:46:05 -0400
    If Enbridge and Michigan need the pipeline so badly they want to put a new one in a tunnel under the Straits, how about they build a whole new line to current standards and updated technology. Everyone is holding their breath waiting to see where line 5 will leak next.
  • Patricia Lamb
    signed 2019-05-13 21:44:16 -0400
  • LuAnn Hannasch
    signed 2019-05-13 21:41:20 -0400
  • William Henne
    signed 2019-05-13 21:40:17 -0400
  • Carla Bloom
    signed 2019-05-13 21:37:41 -0400
    Carla Bloom
  • Karen Donahue
    signed 2019-05-13 21:35:44 -0400
    We must end our dependence on fossil fuels. CO2 concentration in the atmosphere just reached 415 parts per million. Decommissioning Line #5 and canceling the tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac are good first steps.
  • Bill Maharan
    signed 2019-05-13 21:28:58 -0400
  • Barbara Kalinka
    signed via 2019-05-13 21:28:21 -0400
    This is not something that we need and does nothing for the good of Michigan. It is just a risky shortcut that endangers the Great Lakes to provide a short cut from Canada to Canada. It is not worth the potential damage that could be done by it.
  • Tom Porter
    signed 2019-05-13 21:23:37 -0400
    Tom Porter
  • Mark Wygent
    followed this page 2019-05-13 21:17:08 -0400
  • Karen Pierce
    signed 2019-05-13 21:15:32 -0400
  • Sandy Moyer
    signed 2019-05-13 21:15:07 -0400
  • Liesl Snyder
    signed 2019-05-13 21:07:38 -0400
  • Nancy Uschold
    signed 2019-05-13 21:00:30 -0400
  • Vic Macks
    signed 2019-05-13 20:56:42 -0400
  • Carl Fangboner
    signed 2019-05-13 20:37:00 -0400
    We cannot trust this company with our environment and the Great Lakes.
  • Elisa Brabenec
    signed via 2019-05-13 20:31:45 -0400
  • Maryse Gagné
    signed 2019-05-13 20:22:23 -0400
  • sandy larson
    signed via 2019-05-13 20:18:53 -0400
  • Laura Dahnke
    signed 2019-05-13 20:16:18 -0400
  • William Rand
    signed 2019-05-13 20:10:18 -0400
  • Thomas Shaver
    signed 2019-05-13 20:09:25 -0400
    No more timidity about this stuff. If Whitmer doesn’t want to fix this then she can go too.
  • Annis Pratt
    signed via 2019-05-13 20:01:26 -0400
  • Anne Williams
    signed 2019-05-13 20:00:04 -0400
  • Vincent Lasak
    signed 2019-05-13 19:56:18 -0400
  • Whitney Roberts
    signed 2019-05-13 19:55:22 -0400
  • Sandra Hill
    signed 2019-05-13 19:48:21 -0400
  • Linda Ervin
    signed via 2019-05-13 19:47:49 -0400
    This is crucial. As the Great Lakes State, we have so much at stake! Our beautiful lakes would be polluted for decades and fish, birds and other wildlife would die. Enbridge is not trustworthy at all. In addition, a Wisconsin electric company that was approached about being part of the tunnel said the tunnel was also a bad idea. Why gamble with our future???
  • Dorothy Strotkamp
    signed 2019-05-13 19:40:28 -0400
  • Marlo Syracuse
    signed via 2019-05-13 19:35:28 -0400
    We don’t need a pipeline in the lake. Find another way. There is always another way.

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

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