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Tribe and environmental groups urge Wisconsin officials to rule against relocating pipeline
4 months, 1 week ago

Tribe and environmental groups urge Wisconsin officials to rule against relocating pipeline

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A tribal leader and conservationists urged state officials Thursday to reject plans to relocate part of an aging northern Wisconsin pipeline, warning that the threat of a catastrophic spill would still exist along the new route. About 12 miles of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline runs across the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s reservation. Bad …

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Michigan regulators approve $500M pipeline tunnel project under channel linking 2 Great Lakes
1 year ago

Michigan regulators approve $500M pipeline tunnel project under channel linking 2 Great Lakes

Associated Press  

Michigan officials approved a $500 million plan Friday to encase in a protective tunnel a portion of an aging oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes, leaving just one more regulatory hurdle for the contentious project. The commission’s chairperson, Dan Scripps, said the tunnel is the best way to mitigate the risk of a spill as …

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Judge gives Enbridge 3 years to close oil pipeline on tribal land in Wisconsin
1 year, 6 months ago

Judge gives Enbridge 3 years to close oil pipeline on tribal land in Wisconsin

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A federal judge has given Enbridge three years to shut down parts of an oil pipeline that crosses reservation land and ordered the energy company to pay a Native American tribe more than $5 million for trespassing. The judge’s order said a rupture on tribal land “would unquestionably be a public nuisance” but denied that the threat …

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Judge orders Enbridge, tribe to form emergency pipeline plan
2 years ago

Judge orders Enbridge, tribe to form emergency pipeline plan

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A federal judge has ordered energy company Enbridge Inc. and an American Indian tribe to come up with an emergency plan to prevent potential spills from an aging oil pipeline running across the tribe’s reservation. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa sued Enbridge in federal court in 2019 to force the company to remove a …

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Enbridge ordered to pay $3M for Line 3 groundwater leak
3 years, 3 months ago

Enbridge ordered to pay $3M for Line 3 groundwater leak

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota regulators have ordered Enbridge to pay more than $3 million for allegedly violating state environmental law by piercing a groundwater aquifer during construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement. The state Department of Natural Resources said Enbridge, while working near Clearbrook in January, dug too deeply into the ground and pierced an artesian aquifer, …

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EXPLAINER: Why a rural pipeline is a climate battleground
3 years, 6 months ago

EXPLAINER: Why a rural pipeline is a climate battleground

Associated Press  

As Enbridge Energy prepares to finish rebuilding an oil pipeline across rural northern Minnesota, protesters are occupying part of the construction area and pledging a “summer of resistance” on the ground and in court. Enbridge, which has obtained all necessary state and federal permits for the Line 3 project, says it will be finished by year’s end. During a protest …

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Oil pipeline disputes raise tensions between U.S. and Canada
3 years, 7 months ago

Oil pipeline disputes raise tensions between U.S. and Canada

Associated Press  

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Months after President Joe Biden snubbed Canadian officials by canceling Keystone XL, an impending showdown over a second crude oil pipeline threatens to further strain ties between the two neighbors that were frayed during the Trump administration. Gretchen Whitmer, a top Biden ally, ordered Canadian energy company Enbridge last fall to shut down its Line 5 …

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Enbridge rejects Michigan’s demand to shut down oil pipeline
3 years, 11 months ago

Enbridge rejects Michigan’s demand to shut down oil pipeline

Associated Press  

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Enbridge said Tuesday it would defy Michigan’s demand to shut down an oil pipeline that runs through a channel linking two of the Great Lakes, contending that Gov. Dan Eichinger, director of the state Department of Natural Resources, described the letter as “Enbridge’s attempt to power-wash the company’s long history of violating the terms of the …

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