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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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  • Eric J Decker
    signed 2021-01-31 08:33:28 -0500
  • Kimberly Dante
    signed 2021-01-31 08:31:41 -0500
    alternative sources are the answer
  • Denise Forand
    signed 2021-01-30 23:38:11 -0500
    Nature over environment
  • Leah Wiste
    signed 2021-01-30 23:09:51 -0500
  • Jash Peter Thiessen
    signed 2021-01-30 15:31:23 -0500
  • Janie Slayden
    signed 2021-01-30 15:20:31 -0500
  • Chris Anderson
    signed 2021-01-30 12:25:40 -0500
    Cyndi Anderson
  • Sandra Chapp
    signed 2021-01-29 19:24:57 -0500
  • Joshua Fenlon
    signed via 2021-01-29 17:47:51 -0500
    Constructing a tunnel and new pipeline under the straits area is not only incredibly irresponsible from a clean energy perspective, it also poses a huge threat to local and statewide environmental ecosystems. This pipeline has almost zero benefit to the residents of the State of Michigan, and it’s time to shut it down for good. Line 5 needs to be shut down, and we don’t need any new tunnels or pipelines – what we need to do is protect the Great Lakes, our natural resources, our biological diversity, our clean drinking water, and our beautiful state so it may continue to provide for future generations.
  • Jessica Brown
    signed 2021-01-29 14:12:11 -0500
  • Shelly VanWart
    signed 2021-01-29 13:30:34 -0500
  • Donald Cooper
    signed 2021-01-29 08:37:14 -0500
    Do not put Tunnel in Lake Michigan or any Great Lakes or fresh water or River in Michigan.
  • Roth Woods
    signed 2021-01-28 23:08:22 -0500
  • Mark And Barbara Trombly
    signed 2021-01-28 20:58:17 -0500
    LIES, LIES, LIES. That is what Enbridge does. Profits over people and more lies, lies, lies. SAVE THE GREAT LAKESKICK ENBRIDGE OUT!!
  • Heather MacLaren
    signed 2021-01-28 19:20:10 -0500
  • Randall Debuysser
    signed 2021-01-28 19:11:28 -0500
  • Gregg Jennings
    signed 2021-01-28 18:31:36 -0500
  • William Hodges
    signed 2021-01-28 17:54:50 -0500
  • Cole Sternberg
    signed 2021-01-28 17:38:19 -0500
  • Jean Hodges
    signed via 2021-01-28 16:26:41 -0500
    Jean Hodges Water is so Important! We have all seen what pipelines have done on land…..PLEASE NO Pipelines in the Great Lakes!
  • Sarah Keith
    signed via 2021-01-28 08:02:59 -0500
    Do NOT support this oil tunnel. The costs of failure to build or run it are not worth the risks to our precious fresh water. This insane proposal benefits a foreign oil company with a bad history of maintenance and truth telling. Why would you trust them with our great lakes?
  • Eugene Mossner
    signed 2021-01-27 21:05:35 -0500
    Eugene Mossner
  • John Larkin
    signed 2021-01-27 13:34:54 -0500
    john larkin
  • Anna Savvides
    signed via 2021-01-27 03:34:24 -0500
    no more destruction, please!
  • Olivia Chamberlain
    signed 2021-01-26 17:18:46 -0500
  • Eric Egelhaaf
    signed via 2021-01-26 12:25:01 -0500
  • Chris Richards
    signed 2021-01-26 10:29:12 -0500
  • Daniel Noakes
    signed 2021-01-26 02:01:26 -0500
  • Sawyer Robinson
    signed 2021-01-25 21:00:42 -0500
  • Mallory Mier
    signed 2021-01-25 11:53:54 -0500

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