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A U.S. District judge has ordered Canadian pipeline giant Enbridge to close within three years parts of the Line 5 oil pipeline crossing tribal land in Wisconsin and to pay around $5 million for trespassing. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, a Native American tribe, last month sought an immediate shutdown in court, due to erosion of the Bad River riverbank, which threatens to lead to a rupture of the pipeline. The Wisconsin band’s motion was supported by Attorney General Dana Nessel of Michigan, the state which has been trying to shut down Line 5 for years. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians sued Enbridge in 2019, seeking the removal of Line 5 from the Bad River Reservation. Enbridge is proposing a relocation of a 12-mile section of Line 5 from the Bad River Reservation, replacing it with approximately 41 miles of pipe outside of the Reservation. The company, however, hasn’t obtained yet from the Department of Natural Resources the permits it needs for the relocation project. A month after Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa sought in court an immediate shutdown of Line 5, U.S. District Judge William Conley in Madison, Wisconsin, […]
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