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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 Enbridge has enlisted Canada to block action by Michigan’s governor to protect us from an outdated and dangerous oil pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac.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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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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  • Deb Nedeau
    signed 2021-01-24 10:09:43 -0500
  • Courtney Adams
    signed 2021-01-24 10:06:40 -0500
    Water is our most precious resource and essential for life. We cannot afford the repercussions that a spill in the straits would have. It would be devastating to several drinking water systems, the ecosystem, and our economy that relies heavily on tourism to see, fish, and enjoy the great lakes.
  • Mark Boik
    signed 2021-01-24 10:06:17 -0500
  • Julian Van Winkle
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  • Patrick Cooper-McCann
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  • Luanne Sherman
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  • Robert Wollenberg
    signed 2021-01-24 10:03:07 -0500
    Please help us save our Great Lakes from business greed! Please!!
  • Linda Antoniadis
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  • Peggy Case
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  • Karen Anderson
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  • Betty Anguiano
    signed 2021-01-24 09:50:02 -0500
  • Marie Kopin
    signed 2021-01-24 09:48:26 -0500
    We desperately need your help President Biden to protect the waters of the Great Lakes. There is new advertising talking about more expensive gas and oil for sale in Michigan and surrounding areas if the pipeline is closed. However, Michigan has many oil resources of its own. This includes Isabella County where I live, at one time we were the seventh biggest producer of oil in the United States. We have many active oil pumps and now we have wind towers by DTE providing electricity.
  • Brandon Sheffler
    signed 2021-01-24 09:47:45 -0500
    We have produced enough oil already, we cannot produce more Great Lakes if we ruin them with ineptitude and greed
  • Wes Hough
    signed 2021-01-24 09:47:02 -0500
  • Denise Mitchell
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  • Marissa Cash
    signed via 2021-01-24 09:44:40 -0500
  • Randall Eckard
    signed 2021-01-24 09:43:38 -0500
    Thank you

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