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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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  • Amy Johnson
    signed via 2020-11-02 14:49:55 -0500
  • Tori Jarosh
    signed 2020-11-02 14:12:36 -0500
    The consequences of a spill in the great lakes is more detrimental than Enbridges loss of profit, or the financial investments into finding other sources of propane and light oil.
  • Nm Porter
    signed 2020-11-01 21:01:54 -0500
  • Valerie Grondin
    signed 2020-10-30 11:57:21 -0400
    Valerie J Grondin
  • Jack Turner
    signed 2020-10-30 11:20:24 -0400
  • Fay Engel
    signed 2020-10-29 19:08:44 -0400
    This corporate greed in America and the world can only be stopped by people joining together!
  • Nancy Potter
    signed 2020-10-29 17:06:21 -0400
  • Lauren Brady
    signed via 2020-10-29 14:24:56 -0400
  • Joseph Tyler
    signed 2020-10-28 08:51:40 -0400
  • Kathryn Scharf
    signed 2020-10-26 21:04:02 -0400
    Dear Governor Whitmer,


    Pollution may seem invisible when it’s under hundreds of thousands of gallons of water, but “the butterfly effect” is real, and we all suffer from toxic enablers like Line 5. Thank you for your time.
  • Cory Hensley
    signed 2020-10-26 11:31:28 -0400
  • danielle trombley
    signed via 2020-10-26 07:23:31 -0400
  • Vera Hernandez
    signed 2020-10-25 12:36:38 -0400
  • Matt McDonough
    signed 2020-10-24 22:15:03 -0400
  • Charla Thompson
    signed via 2020-10-24 17:06:56 -0400
  • Derrick Hash
    signed 2020-10-24 15:35:16 -0400
  • Diane Carr
    signed 2020-10-24 12:13:20 -0400
    enbriidge has proven how incompetent they are to deliver oil safely SHUT IT DOWN!
  • Lisa Caswell
    signed 2020-10-24 11:38:20 -0400
  • William Perry
    signed via 2020-10-24 08:28:35 -0400
    Pure government neglect on the part of our United States Of America..No tunnel !!!
  • Angela Aksamit
    signed via 2020-10-24 07:50:50 -0400
  • Carol Glidden
    signed 2020-10-24 02:24:58 -0400
    Carol Glidden
  • Janine Vinton
    signed 2020-10-23 22:25:28 -0400
  • Ivan Womboldt
    signed 2020-10-23 21:26:45 -0400
  • William C Allen III
    signed via 2020-10-23 18:13:40 -0400
    Please don’t allow this in our waters
  • Catherine Daligga
    signed 2020-10-23 13:13:14 -0400
    Gov. Whitmer, I realize you have an inordinate number of urgent demands on your attention. Please make sure to take actiion on Line 5 before it too becomes an even more urgent crisis than it is now. I implore you to shut down Line 5 to protect our precious Straits and all the people and wildlife dependent on the safety and purity of the water.
  • Trista Harter
    signed 2020-10-23 10:51:18 -0400
    It is sickening to me that the profits of the few trump (pun intended) the health and well being of the vast majority. It is what Republicans stand for. It is truly disgusting.
  • Ed Kopka Jr
    signed 2020-10-23 08:35:27 -0400
  • Mark Carter
    signed 2020-10-22 20:36:11 -0400
  • Toni Van Dyken
    signed via 2020-10-22 20:26:03 -0400
    Protect our precious fresh water!
  • nicolette grubb
    signed 2020-10-22 18:34:37 -0400
    Please do whatever you can to stop this bad idea and shut down this dangerous line 5 . Why should an oil company with a realy bad environmental record be allowed to risk our lakes. This is an area that depends on our beauty for our tourism. The “tunnel” will not supply many meaningful jobs to our area, but could destroy all that we love and hold dear. Shut it down!!

IMAGE of Mighty Mac & Blue Ice courtesy of Rachel Kramer via Flickr

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