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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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  • Patricia Kenny
    signed via 2025-08-30 15:05:06 -0400
  • Tara Freimund
    signed via 2025-08-30 14:50:00 -0400
    There have been too many accidents already. Demanding infinite resources from a finite planet as being deeply irrational doesn’t just acknowledge the products of extraction, it also recognizes all of the unintended consequences of the process of that extraction, such as habitat loss, damage to air, water and soil, and of course spills.
  • Paula Tompkins
    signed via 2025-08-30 14:41:17 -0400
  • Katherine Giovinazzo
    signed via 2025-08-30 14:38:38 -0400
  • Joyce Coogan
    signed via 2025-08-30 14:30:18 -0400
  • Steve Schueth
    signed via 2025-08-30 14:24:37 -0400
  • Jeri Zimmermann
    signed via 2025-08-30 13:56:38 -0400
    Thank You!
  • Teri Lynch-Jones
    signed via 2025-08-30 13:50:47 -0400
  • Lisa Tellez
    signed via 2025-08-30 13:34:52 -0400
  • Christina Yocum
    signed 2025-08-30 13:34:27 -0400
  • Caroline Jeffers
    signed via 2025-08-30 13:26:41 -0400
  • Matt Kilbane
    signed via 2025-08-30 13:26:25 -0400
  • Peter Scholz
    signed via 2025-08-30 13:09:10 -0400
  • Noliwe Gofhamodimo
    signed via 2025-08-30 13:02:01 -0400
  • Stan Howard
    signed via 2025-08-30 12:57:41 -0400
    The time for fossil fuels is coming to an end.
  • Christina Monson
    signed via 2025-08-30 12:46:14 -0400
    I was born and raised in Michigan, spending much time on the Great Lakes and smaller inland lakes. The abundance of clean, fresh water in that small region is truly like no other place and we MUST protect, recognize, understand, and respect the fragility and majesty of this life nourishing, flourishing ecosystem that supports humans and thousands of water and land species of plants, fish, and other animals, including humans. We must honor, and appreciate this truly remarkable fresh water system that does not exist anywhere else on the planet. The planet sustains life beautifully, live in harmony with the planet instead of destroying it. What’s more important, money or a healthy planet that sustains healthy life?
  • Melissa Smith
    signed via 2025-08-30 12:34:13 -0400
  • Sarah Muller
    signed via 2025-08-30 12:21:26 -0400
  • Diana Shepard
    signed via 2025-08-30 12:16:41 -0400
  • Grover Zinn
    signed 2025-08-30 12:03:47 -0400
    Common sense says revoke this easement—reckless pipeline operators and the danger of an oil leak disaster. Please help save the Great Lakes from degradation.
  • Deborah Rodell
    signed via 2025-08-30 12:02:05 -0400
  • Sharon Greenrod
    signed via 2025-08-30 11:52:33 -0400
  • Rita Kramen
    signed via 2025-08-30 11:36:06 -0400
  • Neville Bruce
    signed via 2025-08-30 11:34:00 -0400
  • Cheryl Pirozzi
    signed via 2025-08-30 11:07:14 -0400
  • Chris Reid
    signed via 2025-08-30 10:37:03 -0400
  • Janet Peterson
    signed via 2025-08-30 10:32:46 -0400
  • Meredith Hamsher
    signed via 2025-08-30 10:16:18 -0400
    Please protect the gorgeous waters of Mackinac!
  • Steven Szabo
    signed via 2025-08-30 09:41:35 -0400
    A nationwide effort to reduce carbon emissions from fossil fuel needs to be pushed HARD. We are running out of time!
  • Jennifer Pantelios
    signed via 2025-08-30 09:21:20 -0400

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