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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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  • Margery Coffey
    signed 2021-02-08 21:44:13 -0500
  • Jennie Hoffmann
    signed 2021-02-08 15:38:13 -0500
  • John M Dwyer
    signed 2021-02-08 15:13:12 -0500
    I own a summer vacation hone on the Straits of Mackinac. I am fearful that we will experience the same catastrophes as those on the Kalamazoo River have had. Enbridge promised the no spill, and when it happened promised to clean it up. Ask a Kalamazoo River resident how well they kept their promises.
  • Su Lantz
    signed 2021-02-08 13:06:17 -0500
  • Sarah Polk
    signed 2021-02-08 12:55:41 -0500
  • Joseph Wetmore
    signed 2021-02-08 12:18:47 -0500
    Joseph Wetmore
  • Mike Fornes
    signed 2021-02-08 12:16:20 -0500
  • David Dwyer
    signed 2021-02-08 11:49:35 -0500
  • Ryan Patrick
    signed via 2021-02-08 08:30:15 -0500
  • Eric Genier
    signed 2021-02-07 22:40:23 -0500
  • Janet Gettel
    signed 2021-02-07 20:06:29 -0500
    Janet Gettel

    Our Great Lakes must be protected from all forms of pollution including possible future oil leaks from the Enbridge pipeline under the Straits of Mackinac. It must be shut down now.
  • Grace Irwin
    signed 2021-02-07 15:04:15 -0500
  • Marie Debs
    signed via 2021-02-07 12:30:49 -0500
  • Cindy Skaiky
    signed 2021-02-07 12:26:34 -0500
  • Cheryl Barnds
    signed 2021-02-07 11:56:09 -0500
    we need a just transition NOW, not an oil tunnel that will inevitably spill into the straights!
  • Lynda Suciu
    signed via 2021-02-07 10:33:30 -0500
  • Allan Bressler
    signed 2021-02-07 07:40:03 -0500
  • Joyce McDaniel
    signed 2021-02-06 18:48:36 -0500
  • Ron Kardos
    signed via 2021-02-06 10:09:01 -0500
    Ron Kardos
  • Dustin Wilson
    signed 2021-02-06 07:31:40 -0500
  • Clare Elson
    signed 2021-02-05 23:56:36 -0500
    Clare Elson
  • Mason Smart
    signed 2021-02-05 18:01:33 -0500
  • Denise Belzile
    signed 2021-02-05 17:51:47 -0500
  • Hannah Hardy
    signed 2021-02-05 17:08:38 -0500
    Hannah Hardy
  • Roberta Cory
    signed 2021-02-05 13:04:32 -0500
    We will never make the Green transition if we become enablers of fossil fuels.
  • Bareket Kezwer
    signed 2021-02-05 11:09:28 -0500
  • Jennie Gomes
    signed 2021-02-05 10:23:45 -0500
  • Adrian Walrath
    signed 2021-02-05 08:32:22 -0500
    We need to protect the water for both countries. It is urgent.
  • Lucy W
    signed 2021-02-04 23:21:28 -0500
  • Alexandra Fussell
    signed 2021-02-04 22:30:00 -0500

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