A northern Wisconsin tribe and a coalition of groups are moving to block plans to reroute an aging pipeline around the tribe's reservation. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior filed a lawsuit in Ashland County on Thursday challenging the validity of the environmental impact statement on rerouting Enbridge's Line 5.
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The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa filed a lawsuit in Ashland County asking a judge to stay the state Department of Natural Resources’for the project and reverse state construction permits. The tribe also joined with a number of other groups, including Clean Wisconsin, the Sierra Club and the League of Women Voters, in petitions Thursday demanding a hearing on the approvals.
“In my view, the DNR failed our children when it gave Enbridge the permits to build this reroute,” Bad River Chairperson Robert Blanchard said in a news release announcing Thursday’s actions. “As a tribal chairman and an elder, it’s my responsibility to protect the generations still to come. That is why we are fighting this reroute in court.”The wife of a Wisconsin kayaker who faked his own death moves to end their marriageDNR spokesperson Molly Meister declined to comment.
The tribe sued Enbridge in 2019 to force the company to remove the pipeline from the reservation. The band argued land easements allowing Enbridge to operate on the reservation expired in 2013 and the 71-year-old pipeline is prone to a catastrophic spill that would devastate the local watershed and ruin the tribe’s sacred wild rice beds.from the reservation by 2026. The energy company has asked a federal appellate court in Chicago to review that decision.
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