DNR Says Oil Pipeline Reroute is Safe, But Clean Wisconsin Sees Danger...

On November 14, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources approved permits to allow Canadian energy company Enbridge to reroute the 70-year old Line 5 oil pipeline.  The line transports Alberta tar sands oil and natural gas from Superior, Wisconsin to refineries in Ontario.

After winning a 2023 trespass lawsuit in federal court, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa succeeded in forcing the line off reservation lands. The new Line 5 route avoids tribal lands, but crosses the headwaters of the Bad River and other streams that feed Lake Superior.

The environmental group Clean Wisconsin, which filed an amicus brief arguing for decommissioning of Line 5, is now contemplating additional legal action in response to the DNR’s decision.  Clean Wisconsin attorney Evan Feinauer spoke to Monday Buzz host Brian Standing to about what comes next in the decades long battle over Line 5.

Last month Monday Buzz producer Nicholas Wootton interviewed documentary film director Mary Mazzio about her film Bad River, which chronicles the history of the Bad River band of the Ojibwe tribe’s years long efforts to resist Line 5’s encroachment on their reservation.

Web posting by WORT producer Nicholas Wootton.

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