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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, 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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  • Barbara Jane Hopkins
    signed 2025-02-19 10:28:20 -0500
  • Michael Earney
    signed 2025-02-19 10:13:50 -0500
  • Terry Jess
    signed 2025-02-19 10:13:19 -0500
    Isn’t it enough polluted potable water is increasingly frequent due to industrial and commercial discharge! Pay attention-“ The Great Lakes provide drinking water for millions and support a thriving tourism and fishing economy. A rushed approval process for this controversial project would jeopardize these vital resources and set a dangerous precedent.”
  • Janet Heinle
    signed 2025-02-19 10:12:53 -0500
  • Dianne Minicucci
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  • Julie Moller
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  • Linta Bryant
    signed 2025-02-19 09:59:46 -0500
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    signed 2025-02-19 09:32:27 -0500
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  • John Carroll
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  • Tom Harris
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  • Sharon Young
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  • Susan Gerstner
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  • Ann Gilson
    signed 2025-02-19 08:25:04 -0500
  • Beth Carpenter
    signed 2025-02-19 08:22:15 -0500
    For how many decades have we been working and signing protests? Water should be treated as the most precious resource on the planet! I’m tired of the billionaires boys bosses club. No individual should be allowed to have the amount of money to take control of the United States of America government.

    I’m sick with with worry and hopelessness. Please close any and all loopholes. Peace Beth
  • Christine Heidt
    signed via 2025-02-19 08:17:57 -0500
    Over a million gallons spilled already…this record speaks for itself!
  • r tippens
    signed 2025-02-19 08:11:14 -0500
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