No Oil Tunnel Petition

Defend OUR Natural Resources in a Sustainable manner. Please.

There are alternative methods to transporting oil that do not require further investment into the dangerous Line 5 pipelines. These other methods are less-risky and more cost-effective in the long and short term. Further, no business can flourish in the great lakes without water. Enbridge needs water to operate. We need water to live. All residents and all living creatures need water to survive. Protect the #1 natural resrouce in the Great Lakes region – the Great Lakes watershed! #ShutDownLine5

Please do what is right and responsible for all of us and our only home, earth.

It would be irresponsible to permit this pipeline to be constructed. It would threat both the Upper and Lower. Peninsulas (and many other Great Lakes communities), and the vibrant communities that depend on the Great Lakes to stay clean and avoid an environment disaster on the scale of the Exxon Valdez and BP Gulf spills. Such an event would destroy economies and ways of life. Please don’t play “high stakes poker” with the pipeline expansion request.

Enbridge’s brazen attempt to shrink Michigan’s regulatory oversight of its proposed Line 5 tunnel is unacceptable and violates state law. The company’s plan to excavate millions of cubic yards of material from beneath the pristine Great Lakes lakebed–one of the world’s largest freshwater ecosystems–while simultaneously claiming this massive industrial operation somehow escapes Michigan’s jurisdiction under the Great Lakes Submerged Lands Act (GLSLA) is not merely legally incorrect but constitutes an unconscionable assault on state sovereignty and environmental protection.


This interpretation is an absurd distortion of the law that violates both common sense and established legal precedent. Lands beneath our Great Lakes are unequivocally bottomlands under state jurisdiction, and that’s just what the statute says. Full stop. When a project demands excavating millions of cubic yards from those bottomlands, the Great Lakes are threatened by sinkholes, explosions, and the blowout of pollution. Enbridge cannot manipulate regulatory frameworks to serve its corporate interests while abandoning Michigan communities and fragile ecosystems to absorb catastrophic environmental and economic risks. EGLE must deny Enbridge’s permit application because it ignores these threats to the Great Lakes. And EGLE must then assert its full regulatory authority and require a comprehensive environmental review of the entire 4.3-mile tunnel project–no exceptions, no corporate loopholes. This includes analyzing:


• All excavation impacts on lakebed ecosystems

• Long-term structural integrity risks in the Straits of Mackinac and short-term impacts while tunneling under an operating pipeline

• Potential contamination from construction activities

• Emergency response capabilities for a deep underwater pipeline

• Cumulative impacts on Great Lakes water quality


Michigan’s Great Lakes are irreplaceable public resources that demand the highest level of protection. EGLE must not allow Enbridge to dodge state oversight through legal maneuvering.


Reject this permit application from Enbridge. Require a full Great Lakes Submerged Lands Act review that a project of this magnitude demands. A comprehensive review will show that impacts from this proposed tunnel will require Michigan to deny a permit for a massive project that Michigan doesn’t need and doesn’t want.

Stop the pipeline. Protect Michigan’s environment.

We CANNOT live without our planet. Stop being greedy and dense.