Just got an email from Oil and Water Don’t Mix saying that there’s a poll in today’s Traverse City Record-Eagle about shutting down Line 5. We don’t want the Michigan Oil and Gas Association members and supporters to win that, do we?
PLEASE CLICK HERE AND VOTE YES! NOW IS THE TIME TO SHUT DOWN LINE 5!
And while you’re in the groove of it all, please go to this Oil and Water Don’t Mix page. You’ll find additional information on the current status of this pipeline assessment AND a place to submit your own comment on it! (NOTE: The correct final deadline for public comments IS December 22, 2017.)
This statement by Liz Kirkwood, the director of FLOW (For Love of Water) addresses what matters most. She says, in part:
The truth is Line 5 under the Straits violates “reasonably prudent person” standard in the Easement, a common sense covenant that the company agreed to when it was granted the 1953 easement. It is no longer prudent to risk the Great Lakes with a crude oil spill of tar balls, dead fish, and oily wildlife and beaches.
(For more background, please see my own recent posts, Shut Down Line 5! and Calling All Opponents of Line 5.)
Let’s press our advantage. They are LOSING public support, notwithstanding freeped polls. Shut it down NOW!