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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, 73-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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  • John McAlpine
    signed 2025-08-14 07:24:01 -0400
    Please preserve the water. No pipeline.
  • Laurie Tayler
    signed 2025-08-13 20:38:22 -0400
  • Dawn Paliokas
    signed 2025-08-13 19:14:02 -0400
  • Therese Foote
    signed 2025-08-13 15:22:00 -0400
    The Worlds largest fresh water resource is too valuable to risk to benefit a Canadian fuel Transport company. We need to protect Michigans fresh waters, tourism, and the integrity of this fragile irreplaceable resource. Please! No line 5 tunnel!
  • Linda McGill
    signed 2025-08-13 13:22:10 -0400
    Please do not approve Line 5 tunnel. An oil spill in the Straits would be catastrophic to Michigan and states that border the Great Lakes!
  • Jojy Schless
    signed 2025-08-13 10:11:34 -0400
    Please protect the Great Lakes. Invest in prevention not clean up efforts after the fact.
  • Laurie Leinbach
    signed 2025-08-13 09:46:04 -0400
  • Jessica Kruszka
    signed 2025-08-13 08:58:43 -0400
  • Mary Lebert
    signed 2025-08-12 23:12:23 -0400
  • Karen Benson
    signed 2025-08-12 22:01:17 -0400
  • Tom Boughan
    signed 2025-08-12 21:22:22 -0400
  • V. Conover
    signed 2025-08-12 21:00:11 -0400
  • Mary Eldridge
    signed 2025-08-12 18:07:09 -0400
  • Ann Rogers
    signed 2025-08-12 17:54:24 -0400
    Protect our frsh water . It is needed for life.
  • Ingrid Gunderson
    signed 2025-08-12 16:48:18 -0400
    No to this reckless and damaging company.

    No to a pipeline that drastically ruins waters for our grandchildren and causes economic damage with clean up and with water filtering.

    No to ruining our tourism industries along our Michigan waters.

    Stop this mess.
  • Dave Hornstein
    signed 2025-08-12 15:25:06 -0400
  • James Kehrer
    signed 2025-08-12 15:10:06 -0400
  • David Watson
    signed 2025-08-12 14:45:41 -0400
  • Rebecca Smith
    signed 2025-08-12 14:30:13 -0400
    I vacation in upper Michigan. Northern Lake Michigan and it’s surrounding fresh water is a world treasure..It’s preservation and health should not be taken for granted.. This is true of your beautiful rivers, as well. Protect our resources!
  • Aliyah Keuthan
    signed 2025-08-12 13:10:50 -0400
  • Kathleen Donahue
    signed 2025-08-12 12:58:46 -0400
  • Darlene Durham
    signed 2025-08-12 12:55:52 -0400
    Protect our fresh water.. oil and water don’t mix. Protect the wildlife, protect people.
  • Sarah Kaplan
    signed 2025-08-12 12:54:14 -0400
  • Daniel Peeples
    signed 2025-08-12 11:18:43 -0400
  • Hannah Apps
    signed 2025-08-12 10:35:18 -0400
    It might seem that a spill is unlikely but if it happens it is catastrophic. And spills happen all the time. Why take the risk? The tunnel doesn’t protect us from a spill. Line 5 has spilled before. Please don’t risk the great lakes.
  • George Robson
    signed via 2025-08-12 08:16:59 -0400
    If you had to pick one place on the entire map of North America, not to have an oil pipeline, it would be the straits of Mackinac shut down 95 now before we have a disastrous event
  • Michele Villeneuve
    signed 2025-08-11 17:09:40 -0400
  • Kathleen Curran
    signed via 2025-08-11 13:28:54 -0400
  • Chris Henley
    signed 2025-08-11 11:28:42 -0400
    This affects us all!
  • Carole Mark
    signed 2025-08-11 11:14:12 -0400
    Are we just going to sacrifice the Great Lakes? Just horrible

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