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This is how we make our government accountable to the people. We'll deliver your signature to tell Gov. Whitmer and Sec. Buttigieg, the will of the people is to #ShutDownLine5

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 & Secretary Buttigieg:

An oil tunnel through the public bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac won’t protect the Great Lakes from a 645-mile long, 71-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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  • Karen Wilson
    signed 2024-12-25 12:06:42 -0500
  • Ben Kunz
    signed 2024-12-24 15:29:18 -0500
  • Joseph Alvarado
    signed 2024-12-23 14:17:25 -0500
    RES IPSA LOQUITUR, LONG OVERDUE, TIME IS OF THE ESSENCE!
  • Marisa Morales
    signed 2024-12-22 13:16:20 -0500
  • Cynthia Allen
    signed 2024-12-21 16:53:00 -0500
  • Thomas Favret
    signed 2024-12-21 09:41:11 -0500
  • Lisa James-Novak
    signed via 2024-12-20 23:46:32 -0500
  • Tufani Sengupta
    signed 2024-12-20 21:27:34 -0500
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    signed 2024-12-20 17:36:12 -0500
  • Kerry Hall
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  • liv larson
    signed 2024-12-20 10:18:21 -0500
  • Katherine Abbott
    signed 2024-12-19 21:23:19 -0500
  • Danielle Quenon
    signed 2024-12-19 20:23:09 -0500
  • Amber Olguin
    signed 2024-12-19 19:21:31 -0500
  • Judy Martinez
    signed 2024-12-19 16:48:18 -0500
  • Audrey Frost
    signed 2024-12-19 15:45:57 -0500
  • Cassidy Thompson
    signed 2024-12-19 14:56:52 -0500
  • Carolyn Bourland
    signed 2024-12-19 14:29:54 -0500
    This has been going on way too long! Shut down Line 5 NOW! A real disaster is ready to happen!
  • Daisy Kates
    signed 2024-12-19 13:32:22 -0500
  • Sarah Ebe
    signed 2024-12-19 13:16:04 -0500
  • Andrew Stonestreet
    signed 2024-12-19 12:54:34 -0500
  • babe paquin
    signed 2024-12-19 12:49:25 -0500
    I was told (by a former employee) years ago that Enbridge did not build the pipeline thru Canada because that country’s environmental laws are too strict.

    I’m not against protecting the current pipeline with more aggressive measures (steel encased cover) but to drill 200 feet below the lake bed and having to dump that sludge somewhere, causing unknown environmental problems, I’m totally against. Please protect the Great Lakes from further pollution and keep our waters clean and usable.
  • kyra walsh
    signed 2024-12-19 11:47:29 -0500
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    signed via 2024-12-19 11:40:12 -0500
  • Alyssa Elliott
    signed 2024-12-19 11:05:18 -0500
  • Kirsten Assink
    signed 2024-12-19 10:45:21 -0500
  • Summer Hansen
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  • Roberta Moore
    signed 2024-12-19 10:22:05 -0500
  • Katharyn Hassan
    signed via 2024-12-19 10:04:00 -0500

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