09/09/2026
📍👏Good news: Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s decision to challenge key Line 5 permits puts the Great Lakes first and is a meaningful step in protecting our waters, wildlife, communities, as well as Tribal and cultural resources from irrevocable disaster.
Says Whitmer, “Enbridge cannot use the promise of a tunnel to justify putting our most precious resources at risk by pumping oil through the Great Lakes for another decade. For years, [they] have asked Michigan to accept the risk of the existing pipelines today in exchange for the promise of a safer tunnel tomorrow. But tomorrow never comes. 📢 I am calling on Enbridge to pursue an alternative to both the existing dual pipelines and the tunnel, and to begin that work now.”
Beth Wallace, climate and energy director for the National Wildlife Federation, underscores the importance of this decision amid the ongoing investigation and clean up in Wisconsin’s Line 5 reroute spill. ”This is especially timely, and leaders in Wisconsin should be emboldened to follow suit.”
🚨Line 5 has been shut down for over two weeks after a 1.3 million gallon release near Saxon, Wisconsin. We are calling on Governor Evers to do the right thing and pull back WI permits.
➡️Take action to keep Line 5 shut down: https://shorturl.at/CTlch
