Sign On to MPSC Letter

BIG UPDATE:

The Michigan Public Service Commission (MPSC) ruled on April 21, 2021, to include climate evidence in their review of Enbridge's proposed Line 5 oil tunnel!

This is a historic decision. The first time greenhouse gases will be included in a review under the Michigan Environmental Protection Act. We will now be able to provide evidence not only about the climate impacts of the construction of the tunnel, but also the products the pipeline carries.

Thank you to the 120 businesses and organizations and the more than 2000 people who signed our letter urging the Commissioners to include climate change.

Thanks to you and the tireless actions of thousands of others, we've won a major step in the fight to prevent an oil tunnel and fight climate change and pollution! We will continue to work with our partners at the Environmental Law & Policy Center and expert witnesses to present this evidence.

For more information, check out our press release and the video below about the Commission's decision.

Thank you and CONGRATULATIONS for helping us win this monumental decision!

Dear Commissioners:

Allowing Enbridge to build a massive oil tunnel - and to restart the Line 5 oil pipeline that Gov. Whitmer has ordered shut down - will have significant impacts on our climate and our state. Building this oil tunnel at a time when scientists say we must cut climate emissions by 45% this decade is a terrible idea, and Enbridge has been fighting to keep all evidence about climate change from even being considered. In the midst of the burgeoning climate crisis, it would be irresponsible to allow Enbridge to narrow the scope of the review of this project so severely that the most important issues are excluded. We urge you to include evidence about climate change, other significant environmental risks, and public need in your review of Enbridge’s proposed oil tunnel project.

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Veronica Welter endorsed 2021-03-24 16:23:30 -0400
Chris Barton endorsed 2021-03-24 16:15:20 -0400
Robin Lloyd endorsed 2021-03-24 16:03:15 -0400

The Great. Lakes are the SECOND LARGEST FRESH WATER SOURCE ON EARTH. YOU WANT TO CONTINUE POISONING THIS VALUABLE ASSET. GET A SCIENTIFIC DEGREE IN THE ENVIRONMENT. Then INFORM US ON YOUR EARTH ENVIRONMENT KNOWLEDGE. YOU’VE BEEN BOUGHT BY THE OIL MAGNETS!
Katherine Heins endorsed 2021-03-24 15:58:50 -0400
Lisa Adams endorsed 2021-03-24 15:58:37 -0400
Robert LaPorte endorsed 2021-03-24 15:40:37 -0400

We need to stop any further work on pipeline infrastructure because we need to prevent any new supply of Fossil fuels. Continuing to rely on Fossil Fuels are not in the best interest of Michigan nor the Great Lakes. Enbridge is not to be trusted after the Kalamazoo line rupture, as well as the lies Enbridge is spewing that the economies of Michigan will suffer if we don’t keep Line 5 open. Stop the Fossil Fuel interests from destroying what’s left of our world. We need to move forward with renewable energy for a cleaner and safer environment. The goal of having Public Service commissioners is for them to be of service to us, the citizens of Michigan and to deliver the necessary service to protect our health and promote a healthy environment.
Nancy Potter endorsed 2021-03-24 15:33:21 -0400
@epinkpeanut tweeted link to this page. 2021-03-24 15:22:10 -0400
Ask the @MichiganPSC to consider the climate impacts of approving a new oil tunnel for @Enbridge Line 5. No new fossil fuel infrastructure during the #climatecrisis! #NoOilTunnel https://www.miclimateaction.org/sign_on_to_mpsc_letter?recruiter_id=44906
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Linda McCallum endorsed 2021-03-24 15:09:22 -0400
Shannon Abbott endorsed 2021-03-24 15:07:08 -0400
John K Erskine endorsed 2021-03-24 15:04:30 -0400

There can be an equitable, sustainable future IF we plan for (& allow) it!
Susan Nash endorsed 2021-03-24 14:59:27 -0400
Sandra Giraud endorsed 2021-03-24 14:55:07 -0400
Michele Reynolds endorsed 2021-03-24 14:51:01 -0400
Sharon Sosa endorsed 2021-03-24 14:39:12 -0400
Michael Butkiewicz endorsed 2021-03-24 14:28:49 -0400
Pamela Allard endorsed 2021-03-24 14:22:03 -0400
Eric Shultis endorsed 2021-03-24 14:21:21 -0400
Jared Boot endorsed 2021-03-24 14:19:14 -0400
Andrea Babka endorsed 2021-03-24 14:14:53 -0400

I am now retired, but for years I worked at a utility job doing preventive maintenance work orders for distribution crews. I greatly respected the oversight and detailed audits by the MPSC at that time. The consideration of including climate change within your audits is critical. Factors of far less hands on inspections of pipelines, replaced with drone technology, or aerial reviews leave corrosion, and leaks rampant. Add climate uncertainty, and you have a disaster waiting to happen! Please side with the people of Michigan and Governor Whitmer, and turn away from corporations willing to sell their souls to skirt around your valuable audits!
Cynthia Haley endorsed 2021-03-24 14:12:50 -0400
Timothy Schacht endorsed 2021-03-24 14:09:58 -0400
Elizabeth Hauptman endorsed 2021-03-24 14:05:26 -0400
Citizens Climate Lobby of Grand Rapids endorsed 2021-03-24 14:03:08 -0400
Social Justice Michigan endorsed 2021-03-24 14:01:11 -0400

Dear Commissioners – Now that the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) is including consideration of climate change impacts in its approval and permitting process, it behooves state agencies to follow the lead of our foremost federal commission.

The science it clear: we have less than 10 years to nearly halve our emissions. Approving new fossil fuel projects is not the way forward to a sustainable future. There are alternatives that create more jobs, more safely, without the harms to frontline communities-and with higher levels of energy independence.

The action that is in the public good is clear: Please do not approve the oil tunnel.

Thank you,

Social Justice Michigan
Retired endorsed 2021-03-24 13:57:17 -0400

All mechanical systems fail. Your washer/dryer will fail sooner or later. Your car will break down. Even the Texas electric grid failed. It defies logic to believe that Enbridge will operate a pipeline under the Great Lakes for 99 years without a failure occurring. We can survive the normal breakdowns, but this one would be catastrophic. The best way to clean up a mess is to prevent it. Say no to Line 5.
NMEAC (Northern Michigan Environmental Action Council) endorsed 2021-03-24 13:55:27 -0400

The Line 5 tunnel proposal is a distraction from critical changes we need make today to protect our future, and the tunnel distracts from the environmental risks of the other 645 miles of that pipeline. Transcanada also has two pipelines crossing the Straits that carry liquid natural gas that should be analysed for environmental risks, along with Line 5.
Mary Keils endorsed 2021-03-24 13:54:10 -0400

I keep hearing Greta Thunberg’s voice as I sign this petition. If we don’t get our “leaders” to stand up to corporate bullies like Enbridge, it looks like we ARE doomed when it comes to climate change. It’s tragic that too many people are making too much money in the present to care about a future their descendants will be facing. I don’t have any descendants, but I’m connected to the Great Lakes to my core, and I care deeply about Earth, our only home, and all creatures on it. We will realize too late that we destroyed the web of life by treating its components as separate “resources.”
Pamela Carter endorsed 2021-03-24 13:48:16 -0400

Not considering the changing climate and the impacts that fossil fuels directly have on it is irresponsible to future generations and serves to encourage oil companies drag the need to switch to a more carbon neutral fuel. There isn’t any decision the public service commissioners should make with pout taking climate change into consideration. Climate change is science regardless of the cause, it is our responsibility respond to it in a nonpartisan way.
Paige Prins endorsed 2021-03-24 13:48:03 -0400