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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 Enbridge has enlisted Canada to block action by Michigan’s governor to protect us from an outdated and dangerous oil pipeline in the Straits of Mackinac.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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  • Joy Frawley
    signed 2021-01-24 08:59:42 -0500
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    signed 2021-01-24 08:53:18 -0500
  • Betty Herron
    signed 2021-01-24 08:52:06 -0500
    Keep the pipelines out of the great lakes
  • Kenneth Wright
    signed 2021-01-24 08:52:01 -0500
  • Christina Martinez
    signed via 2021-01-24 08:51:33 -0500
  • Tricia Kovalik
    signed 2021-01-24 08:49:09 -0500
    Please help this issue. The Great Lakes are more a treasure and a necessity now than ever! Fresh water lakes are unusual….we need them.
  • Marla Kay Houghteling
    signed 2021-01-24 08:48:13 -0500
  • Carol Dixon
    signed 2021-01-24 08:47:57 -0500
  • Mike Passalacqua
    signed 2021-01-24 08:47:19 -0500
  • James Woodburne
    signed 2021-01-24 08:47:13 -0500
  • Beth Scully
    signed 2021-01-24 08:47:08 -0500
    A shutdown of this oil pipe would prevent the occurrence of a catastrophic spill into the Great Lakes.
  • Gerri Songer
    @GerriSonger tweeted link to this page. 2021-01-24 08:46:34 -0500
    SIGN THE PETITION: Help apply the pressure of the Biden administration to the fight to protect the Great Lakes and climate from the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline. https://www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/president_biden_support_the_line_5_shutdown?recruiter_id=79054
  • Kathleen Rathbun
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  • Elizabeth Bartlett
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  • Anne Laurance
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  • Sean Donohue
    signed 2021-01-24 08:42:29 -0500
  • Pam MacPherson
    signed 2021-01-24 08:41:03 -0500
    I live in northern Michigan. A leak from line 5 would devastate the beauty here, as well as destroying our local economy.
  • Cheryl Kacan
    signed 2021-01-24 08:40:13 -0500
  • Terri McCormick
    @downlinker tweeted link to this page. 2021-01-24 08:39:56 -0500
    SIGN THE PETITION: Help apply the pressure of the Biden administration to the fight to protect the Great Lakes and climate from the Enbridge Line 5 oil pipeline. https://www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/president_biden_support_the_line_5_shutdown?recruiter_id=84461
  • Linda Coyne
    signed 2021-01-24 08:39:26 -0500
    It is so wrong that businesses have put profit before people, profit before any thought for the environment, habitat, people and wildlife. We only have one Earth. We need to look after it and conserve.

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