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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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  • Macuilcoatl O Cathain
    signed 2022-02-22 08:53:10 -0500
  • Sydney Beal
    signed 2022-02-20 15:19:39 -0500
  • Lorri Weir
    signed via 2022-02-19 20:32:37 -0500
  • David King
    signed 2022-02-19 15:31:08 -0500
  • Heather Garland
    signed 2022-02-17 13:11:33 -0500
    Michigan’s largest oil spill does not need repeating. Further more the people will foot the bill WHEN it spills again.
  • lilibelle Wisniewski
    signed 2022-02-16 19:20:54 -0500
  • Consuela Vargas
    signed 2022-02-13 01:04:52 -0500
    Stop the Toxic Pipelines
  • Harley Flamm
    signed 2022-02-12 12:12:58 -0500
  • Steven vanderMeer
    signed 2022-02-10 16:33:40 -0500
    Please put a stop to this.
  • Makyle Welke
    signed via 2022-02-08 21:40:04 -0500
  • Andrea Nelson
    signed 2022-02-08 21:36:38 -0500
    I swim in this water along with my kids pets n neighbors. I eat from the water and this water will be toxic if this continues. It needs to be shut down now. It’s called Great Lakes for a reason. It’s great and only Alaska has more fresh water. It should be treated and protected as necessity of basic life preserving it as much as possible!
  • Ted Olsen
    signed 2022-02-07 16:42:31 -0500
    Stop the pipeline and insist these oil companies put these resources into developing technologies that are truly clean. As someone who lives in a state that sits on some of the most beautiful oil reserves in the world, destroying these trout streams is like destroying the Yellowstone River, its a place of beauty so rare with life so fragile it deserves protecting.
  • Frederica Hall
    signed 2022-02-06 17:57:58 -0500
  • Jessica Fernandez
    signed via 2022-02-04 18:06:55 -0500
  • Jennifer Meeker
    signed 2022-02-04 16:24:25 -0500
  • Joshua Lythgoe
    signed 2022-02-02 17:58:29 -0500
  • Faithlee Mills
    signed 2022-02-02 02:47:33 -0500
  • Mary Blanchard
    signed 2022-02-01 15:32:27 -0500
    The construction of the tunnel is dangerous enough to our valuable resource of 21% of the WORLD"S water, but add the fact that the life expectancy of use of the tunnel is diminishing by the day as electrification of vehicles is rapidly gearing up with auto makers. Construction will will take years, if it can be successfully built at all. Test drillings have already caused problems for the contractors. Once Enbridge ceases operations of the proposed tunnel the State of Michigan will be left with an obsolete, decaying disaster in an environmental area that should be protected at all cost.

    Thank you.
  • Peggy Daub
    signed 2022-02-01 11:43:56 -0500
    Please take steps to discourage the use of fossil fuel and stop the threat to Great Lake waters.
  • Jennifer A Johnson
    signed 2022-02-01 09:15:24 -0500
  • Jessica Herrera
    signed 2022-01-30 04:51:48 -0500
    Stop this atrocity. Water is life.
  • Hannah G
    signed 2022-01-27 11:47:21 -0500
  • Paige R
    signed 2022-01-27 11:09:43 -0500
  • Dawn Gelinas
    signed 2022-01-27 08:55:07 -0500
    Stop these pipe lines!!! $ doesn’t replace clean land & drinking water! Stop the greed!!!
  • William Gawne Jr
    signed 2022-01-26 13:02:35 -0500
  • Krista Illingworth
    signed 2022-01-24 12:25:19 -0500
  • Yvonnah Lovemore
    signed 2022-01-23 04:46:47 -0500
  • Reece English
    signed 2022-01-22 19:31:04 -0500
  • Jason Albring
    signed via 2022-01-22 12:26:53 -0500
  • Lamia Ellis
    signed 2022-01-21 07:46:25 -0500

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