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The project has generated fierce opposition. The tribe wants the pipeline off its land, but tribal members and environmentalists maintain rerouting construction will damage the region's watershed ...
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.
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.
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 Bad River Reservation is located on the south shore of Lake Superior and has a land area of about 193.11 square miles (500.15 km 2) in northern Wisconsin, straddling Ashland and Iron Counties. Odanah , the administrative and cultural center, is located 5 miles (8 km) east of the town of Ashland on U.S. Highway 2 .
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.