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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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  • 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
  • Christine Jacoby
    signed 2025-08-11 07:49:37 -0400
  • Kenneth C. Grosso
    signed 2025-08-11 00:38:21 -0400
  • Susan Balaban
    signed 2025-08-10 22:25:21 -0400
  • Mark Otzelberger
    signed 2025-08-10 17:41:42 -0400
  • Robert Rogan
    signed 2025-08-10 16:58:38 -0400
  • Derek Meier
    signed 2025-08-10 16:51:14 -0400
    Any risk to the greatest freshwater resource in the United States is unacceptable. It is pure hubris to believe that nothing bad can happen. Please do NOT let this project go forward.
  • Rev. David Sickles
    signed 2025-08-10 15:54:55 -0400
    This threatens ALL of the Great Lakes and it is not worth the risk.
  • Kathleen Wix
    signed 2025-08-10 15:36:34 -0400
  • Kristen Blumke
    signed 2025-08-10 15:29:59 -0400
  • antonia grinnan
    signed 2025-08-10 14:20:38 -0400
  • Eric Dallin
    signed 2025-08-10 12:33:20 -0400
  • Dennis Paradee
    signed 2025-08-10 11:56:36 -0400
    My first name is “Dennis” – pls. correct – Thanks!!
  • Desi Kilbourn-Mims
    signed 2025-08-10 10:53:24 -0400
  • Julie Henley
    signed 2025-08-10 09:54:03 -0400
  • Betsy Webster
    signed 2025-08-10 08:57:50 -0400
  • Tamara Vanmiddlesworth
    signed via 2025-08-10 08:40:55 -0400
  • Kris Heidt
    signed 2025-08-10 08:30:17 -0400
    Enbridge’s record is not good! Kalmazoo has still not recovered years later…..Please do not let this happen to our Great Lakes!!Please shut this down, before it is too late!
  • Elizabeth Downie
    signed 2025-08-10 08:15:56 -0400
  • Jeff Bohan
    signed 2025-08-10 08:10:37 -0400
  • Valerie Joy Wright
    signed 2025-08-10 02:24:12 -0400
    Enbridge has a bad record. This tunnel idea should be stopped. Shut down line 5 before we have an oil spill all over the Great Lakes.
  • Annie McCann
    signed 2025-08-09 22:25:06 -0400
  • Gerald Hallead
    signed 2025-08-09 07:44:44 -0400
    Enbridge, like the current administration in Washington, is greedy and indifferent to the climate and the environment. Stop this tunnel project before there is a catastrophic oil spill that will harm the Great Lakes for generations to come.


    Thank you!
  • Carol Pietrantoni
    signed via 2025-08-08 12:33:07 -0400

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