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This is how we make our government accountable to the people. We'll deliver your signature to tell Gov. Whitmer the will of the people is to #ShutDownLine5

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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  • Alisha Fowler
    signed 2026-07-19 14:54:07 -0400
  • Allister Barrett
    signed via 2026-07-19 14:52:44 -0400
    Our forests are already dying from fire, you don’t need to speed up their deaths
  • Willow Rouse
    signed 2026-07-19 14:00:28 -0400
  • Madi Clevenger
    signed via 2026-07-19 13:45:27 -0400
  • Barbara Rosalik
    signed 2026-07-19 13:23:33 -0400
    We can’t take the risk of rupture. 33 leaks is enough but in the straits it threatens all the lakes. We can live without oil but not without water.
  • Pat Metz
    signed 2026-07-19 12:59:25 -0400
  • Billie Piazza
    signed 2026-07-19 12:56:24 -0400
    Enbridge has shown absolutely no concern for the health of the Lake or anything else except making money as fast as possible.
  • Isabel Scott
    signed 2026-07-19 12:40:21 -0400
  • Kylee Huhta
    signed 2026-07-19 12:37:41 -0400
    Protect our lakes!!!!
  • Erin McCall
    signed 2026-07-19 12:34:19 -0400
  • Nkaiseng Jakobo
    signed via 2026-07-19 12:08:54 -0400
  • Dick Long
    signed via 2026-07-19 12:03:23 -0400
    Shut down pipelines
  • Jordan Bianchini
    signed via 2026-07-19 11:59:24 -0400
  • Charles Huhta
    signed 2026-07-19 11:59:07 -0400
  • Juliana Huhta
    signed 2026-07-19 11:56:40 -0400
    Very disappointed in Governor Whitmer for allowing Line 5 to begin. VERY.
  • Ellie Huhta
    signed 2026-07-19 11:53:44 -0400
  • Lauren Marais
    signed via 2026-07-19 11:38:11 -0400
  • Jamie Burton
    signed via 2026-07-19 11:20:30 -0400
    Gov. Whitmer, how do you sleep at night, selling out Michiganders? You promised to support the great lakes – you are actively selling us out. Why are you not listening to the tribes objections? SHAME ON YOU.
  • Neelaa Doxtator
    signed via 2026-07-19 11:07:30 -0400
  • Carmel Parr
    signed 2026-07-19 11:03:20 -0400
  • Mark Simpson
    signed 2026-07-19 10:46:20 -0400
  • Marina Pasqualone
    signed 2026-07-19 10:40:22 -0400
  • Jacquelyn Del Raso
    signed 2026-07-19 10:22:49 -0400
  • Rozalynd Triplett
    signed 2026-07-19 10:00:04 -0400
    I believe in the greater good. Please stop poisoning the earth and saying it’s for our benefit because of “good paying jobs”

    The increase of damage these politicians are doing are creating all types of diseases. We are in a dependent cycle.
  • Rita Mercredi
    signed via 2026-07-19 09:50:06 -0400
  • Linda McCracken
    signed 2026-07-19 09:49:02 -0400
    Stop the destruction and potential of poisoning waters that provide drinking water for millions plus wildlife! Revoke Line 5 easement now!
  • Marjorie Frazier
    signed 2026-07-19 09:47:05 -0400
    SHUT DOWN LINE 5 LIKE YOU PROMISED TO DO,

    GOVERNOR WHITMER!!!

    What a disappointment you have been to me and tens of thousands of others by signing your approval to keep Line 5 open.

    I truly thought you were against Line 5 and would do the right thing to shut it down.

    I don’t understand your approval. Could you at least explain why you are willing to threaten our Great Lakes and the people living in that area so that more fossil fuels can harm our planet and put our Great Lakes in danger?

    Why did you break your promise to shut Line 5 down?

    Shame on you!!!
  • Allison Walters
    signed via 2026-07-19 09:45:30 -0400
  • Ani Sarka
    signed via 2026-07-19 09:20:23 -0400
  • Carolyn Dettmer
    signed 2026-07-19 09:17:44 -0400

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