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A federal appeals court heard oral arguments about whether Enbridge's Line 5 oil pipeline can continue to transport oil over tribal land near Lake Superior.
The Bad River Band in 2019 filed a lawsuit to remove the pipeline after right-of-way easements between the tribe and the company expired in 2013. The pipeline operates on about 12 miles of ...
The tribe sued Enbridge in 2019 to force the company to remove the pipeline from the reservation, arguing the 71-year-old line is prone to a catastrophic spill and land easements allowing Enbridge ...
The pipeline crosses 12 miles of the Bad River Band’s land in northern Wisconsin, even though the tribal council chose not to renew the right-of-way easement when it expired more than a decade ago.
In 2024, the film Bad River was released. The film documented Enbridge's trespassing on the Bad River reservation with Line 5 and the local community's struggle to get the pipeline removed. It also covered how Enbridge attempted to influence the Bad River tribal elections. [120] [121]
The Line 5 pipeline runs between Superior, Wisconsin, and Sarnia, Ontario, two major nodes of the Enbridge Pipeline System.The Enbridge terminal at Superior conveys western Canadian crude oil from various incoming pipelines (including lines 1–4) to Line 5 and Line 6, which go around the northern and southern shores of Lake Michigan respectively.
On March 3, 1991, the Line 3 pipeline ruptured in a wetland near Grand Rapids, Minnesota, spilling 1.7 million gallons of crude oil into the Prairie River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. It was the largest inland oil spill in the history of the United States of America.
Enbridge Energy agreed to cease transporting oil and gas through the pipes in 2020 and proposed to reroute the line by replacing 20 miles of existing pipeline – including the 12 miles currently ...