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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 & Secretary Buttigieg:

An oil tunnel through the public bottomlands of the Straits of Mackinac won’t protect the Great Lakes from a 645-mile long, 71-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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  • Amanda Kosal
    signed via 2024-05-09 09:10:40 -0400
  • Alyson Grigsby
    signed via 2024-05-09 08:25:28 -0400
  • John Hassett
    signed via 2024-05-09 08:20:46 -0400
  • Jennifer Lograsso
    signed via 2024-05-09 07:03:09 -0400
  • Heather McCoig
    signed via 2024-05-09 05:31:11 -0400
  • Megan Leach
    signed via 2024-05-09 02:34:00 -0400
  • alex macgibbon
    signed via 2024-05-09 01:43:12 -0400
  • Katrina Bilbao
    signed via 2024-05-09 01:37:50 -0400
  • Paula Przybylski
    signed via 2024-05-09 01:30:43 -0400
  • Allie
    signed via 2024-05-09 01:26:46 -0400
    PLEASE!! The Great Lakes are one of the largest freshwater systems in the world. We need to keep the lakes preserved at all costs if not for us, for our future children. Constructing a tunnel is not only a hazard for wildlife, but a hazard for container & cargo ships, water sports, and the people who would be traveling in the tunnel.

    Keep the Great Lakes as serene, clean, and untouched as possible. Our lives and your children’s lives depend on it.
  • Aderita Fontes
    signed via 2024-05-09 00:52:56 -0400
  • Hansen Voss
    signed via 2024-05-09 00:33:22 -0400
  • Joseph Goggins
    signed via 2024-05-09 00:13:01 -0400
  • Riley Elliott
    signed via 2024-05-08 23:53:03 -0400
  • Betsy
    signed via 2024-05-08 22:31:36 -0400
  • Heather Fleming
    signed via 2024-05-08 22:19:20 -0400
  • Georgiana O’Neill
    signed via 2024-05-08 22:11:12 -0400
    The health and safety of the Great Lakes will be greatly impacted if this tunnel is allowed to go through, we cannot let this happen!
  • Cameran Fry
    signed via 2024-05-08 21:17:46 -0400
  • Jennifer Golden
    signed via 2024-05-08 20:36:48 -0400
  • Serena Wagner
    signed via 2024-05-08 19:39:21 -0400
  • Jacintha Glover
    signed via 2024-05-08 19:33:28 -0400
  • Natalie Davis
    signed via 2024-05-08 19:27:05 -0400
    I’m a lifetime resident of Cuyahoga County, Ohio. Some of my happiest memories are on Lake Erie, and from my travels to Lake Michigan, Lake Superior, and Lake Huron. It is paramount that we do everything we can to protect our Great Lakes. Our communities and local ecology rely on the health and integrity of the Great Lakes. No pipeline is more important than that.
  • David Padley
    signed via 2024-05-08 17:32:27 -0400
  • Catherine Wright
    signed via 2024-05-08 17:24:57 -0400
  • Katia Koerner
    signed via 2024-05-08 17:24:37 -0400
  • Emily Cencer
    signed via 2024-05-08 17:14:49 -0400
  • Lauren Barkwell
    signed via 2024-05-08 15:31:20 -0400
  • Dean Kapellas
    signed via 2024-05-08 13:44:59 -0400
  • Vera Gould
    signed via 2024-05-08 12:31:32 -0400
  • Kulsum Hafeez
    signed via 2024-05-08 12:27:58 -0400
    Gov. Whitmer, what are you even thinking to allow this in our state. You know perfectly well that Michiganders believe in protecting the Great Lakes, our state’s biggest resource and treasure, above everything. Big Oil has shown time and again that they will cut corners and care not a whit about destroying our nation’s clean water. The environment means nothing to them, they will sacrifice it time and again for short term dollars. You, however, as a Michigander, should know better. At the very least this should be put on the ballot for Michigan voters to decide- because you know we wouldn’t support this.

IMAGE of Mighty Mac & Blue Ice courtesy of Rachel Kramer via Flickr

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