President Biden - Support the Line 5 Shutdown

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Sign the Petition to ask President Biden to protect the Great Lakes and climate from the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline.

Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline threatens the Great Lakes and surrounding states. Enbridge has enlisted Canada to block action by Michigan’s governor to protect us from an outdated and dangerous oil pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac. The imminent danger of an oil spill is clear after the ongoing oil pipeline spill in the Pacific Ocean.

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Please sign the petition asking President Biden to support Gov. Whitmer’s action to decommission the Line 5 oil pipeline before it ruptures.

Dear President Biden:

We are reaching out to share with you our support for Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s decision to protect the Great Lakes by acting to decommission Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac.

These 68-year-old pipelines present a clear and present danger to the Great Lakes. The twin pipelines in the Straits of Mackinac that put 20 percent of the world’s fresh surface water and the region’s economy at risk should never have been allowed to be there and in fact, were never subject to modern-day environmental laws and reviews.

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The State of Michigan, as owner and trustee, has a legal responsibility to manage the public-owned bottomlands where Line 5 is located and protect the Great Lakes. Line 5 has spilled at least 33 times and 1.1 million gallons of oil along its length since 1968. Under the best of circumstances, only 30% of a spill in the Straits of Mackinac would be recovered. 1.5 million jobs and $62 billion in wages are directly connected to the Great Lakes. A pipeline rupture could impact up to 400 miles of shoreline

Enbridge’s ongoing and incurable violations of its 1953 easement with the state prompted Gov. Whitmer to revoke the easement to protect the Great Lakes from a catastrophic oil spill. Gov. Whitmer has ordered the removal of these dangerous pipelines by May 2021, but Enbridge, a Canadian-based oil transport giant, is attempting to delay and ultimately defeat the governor’s actions.

At the heart of this dispute is the sovereign authority and title of U.S. states to protect their water resources for the benefit of their citizens under the perpetual public trust and equal footing doctrines.

Your work to make America the world’s “clean energy superpower” and protecting world-class natural and economic resources like the Great Lakes has tremendous support in the Great Lakes State of Michigan. We urge you to support Gov. Whitmer’s action on the Line 5 pipelines.

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Martha Dahlinger signed 2021-10-09 13:50:07 -0400

The Great Lakes are the greatest fresh water resource in the world, to endanger them for any reason is unconscionable,. To endanger them for transporting an outdated energy source that we need to stop using, and by a company with a poor track record for safety is beyond any reason. I live in Kalamazoo County where the Kalamazoo River flows and our experience with Enbridge has been devastating. Also, I am not looking kindly at our neighbor Canada for continuing to endanger our Natural Resources because it has been lax in developing a sustaining economy for its self. Clean, fresh water is the most endangered and scarce resource in our world, we all need to do a much better job of protecting it.
Leslie Miller signed 2021-10-09 13:49:10 -0400

If there is a spill 40 million people will be without drinking water. Wildlife and birds and people will die. Michigan will be uninhabitable and it wont be Canada or Enbridge who takes responsibility. SHUT DOWN LINE 5.
Charlie Wunsch signed 2021-10-09 13:48:20 -0400
Ryatt Foor signed 2021-10-09 13:44:17 -0400

STOP LINE 5 NO ONE CAN DRINK OIL HONOR THE EARTH
Galatea Sondey signed 2021-10-09 13:32:31 -0400
Erin Fitzpatrick signed 2021-10-09 13:15:50 -0400
Kent Shifferd followed this page 2021-10-09 13:13:40 -0400
Kent Shifferd signed 2021-10-09 13:13:09 -0400

This is a danger to a Lake that I love. Why endanger us for a Canadian Oil Co.?
Jordan Sandee signed 2021-10-09 13:02:46 -0400
Emily DeVore signed 2021-10-09 12:52:05 -0400
Gracie DeVore signed 2021-10-09 12:45:53 -0400
Nancy Gustafson signed 2021-10-09 12:44:46 -0400
Suzan Noffsinger signed 2021-10-09 12:40:09 -0400

Protect our fresh water from the greedy people who don’t care about the environment and for our future generations. Fresh water is precious.
William Pettit signed 2021-10-09 12:04:36 -0400

We have a cottage a block from Lake Michigan near the Mackinac Bridge. We are terrified that a stray anchor could unleash vast ecological damage and destroy our beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline. As well as gut the tourist industry for the Eastern UP. We encourage AG Nessel and federal officials to fight to protect the Eastern UP.
Nancy Lewis signed 2021-10-09 12:03:49 -0400
Teresa Davis-Stone signed 2021-10-09 11:50:09 -0400
Sandy Hubar signed 2021-10-09 11:45:43 -0400

Protect our clean water. It is more important than ever with the climate changing and water crisis here or looming
Sarah Conn signed 2021-10-09 11:36:07 -0400

Don’t put anyone else and our environment through what Flint has/currently going through!
Margaret Marks signed 2021-10-09 11:27:17 -0400
John Farrell signed 2021-10-09 11:23:51 -0400
Theodore Sirotko signed 2021-10-09 11:21:44 -0400

Let’s stop this now, instead of having future generations saying, “they could have prevented this catastrophe, why didn’t they?” Preventive measures are the the best.
Paul DeMain signed 2021-10-09 11:08:40 -0400

Time to protect the water rather then a greedy deceptive foreign corporation. A 1977 Treaty does not trump 44 Treaties with the Ojibwe where they reserved the right to feed their families with CLEAN resources and water - STOP Global Warming, STOP Dirty Fossil Fuels — Stop Enbridge!
Pat Fry signed 2021-10-09 11:01:35 -0400
Sally Meach signed via Barry Lishaws 2021-10-09 10:40:13 -0400
Melissa Waterstripe signed 2021-10-09 10:37:48 -0400
Denise Sayeed signed 2021-10-09 10:37:47 -0400
Lani White signed 2021-10-09 10:28:36 -0400

If the damn 68 year old pipeline leaks, WE ARE DONE!!
Mary Hansen signed 2021-10-09 10:25:40 -0400

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Sharon Frisbie signed 2021-10-09 10:21:28 -0400
Debra Jw Michael signed 2021-10-09 10:11:08 -0400