As Bad River heads to Federal Court for emergency shut down of Line 5, area is woefully underprepared for a pipeline rupture
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Bad River Band’s Filing for Emergency Closure Necessary to Protect Great Lakes from Dangerous Line 5 Pipeline
Bad River Band’s Filing for Emergency Closure Necessary to Protect Great Lakes from Dangerous Line 5 Pipeline
Bad River Band files papers in Federal Court about deterioration around Line 5 pipeline during emergency flooding
May 4, 2023 Barbara With On May 1, 2023, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and Enbridge Energy filed papers in federal court, showing evidence that a meander where the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline crosses the Bad River is worsening quickly under the pressure of the record snowfalls, still melting down the north […]
Great Lake Water Protectors representing at COP 15; Deliver invoice to Enbridge for damages from building Line 3
December 13, 2022 Great Grandmother Mary Lyon and other Great Lakes Water Protectors deliver an invoice to Enbridge in Montreal for all the damage they’ve done to local communities when building Line 3 in northern Wisconsin. Photos and video: Rebecca Kemble
Winona LaDuke, the only “Shell River 7” case not dismissed in Wadena County
December 13, 2022 Winona LaDuke to appear December 14, 9 AM CST via Zoom on misdemeanor obstruction charge during Line 3 construction. https://zoomgov.com/joinMeeting ID: 161 009 9976Meeting Passcode: 469854 Winona LaDuke, Executive Director and co-founder of Honor the Earth, will appear in court tomorrow via Zoom as the sole remaining “Shell River 7” defendant. In […]
Water Protectors And the Great Lakes to be highlighted at UN COP 15 in Montreal; International Water Protectors headed to Canada
December 2, 2022 By Barbara With Sierra Club Canada has been chosen to present before the United Nations Council of the Parties on Biodiversity (COP 15) taking place in Montreal December 7-19, 2022. The presentation will focus on the Great Lakes and the immense risk that pipelines, oil spills, and climate change pose to 84% […]
Sierra Club offering assistance for Water Protectors to get to COP 15 in Montreal
December 2, 2022 Join us in Montreal December 10 -11 Do you have an up-to-date passport? Want to visit Montreal in solidarity with water protectors there? Want to show the Biden and Trudeau Administrations that we say NO to Line 5? Well, we can help you get there! First, a few facts: COP 15, the […]
Demand Federal Agencies Hold Enbridge Accountable for Line 3 Destruction
November 23, 2022 Ahead of construction of the Line 3 pipeline across northern Minnesota, scientists and water protectors predicted potential long-term and permanent hydrological disturbances and ecological destruction that could result from construction. Now that the project is complete, the Department of Natural Resources has publicly acknowledged three places where Enbridge pierced aquifers causing serious […]
As Wisconsin DNR sets horizontal directional drilling standards, Minnesota still suffering from HDD use on Line 3
November 19, 2022 On November 14, Wisconsin Land+Water, a member of the Wisconsin Standards Oversight Council, hosted a training webinar to explain the new technical standards of horizontal directional drilling (HDD) recently adopted by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR). Enbridge Energy plans to use HDD for the construction of their proposed Line 5 […]
Water Protectors send message to Enbridge during Indigenous contractor recruitment drive in Duluth
November 16, 2022 On November 15, Enbridge held a meet and greet at Pier B in the Duluth harbor to recruit more Native contractors to work on the proposed Enbridge’s Line 5 reroute through the Bad River watershed. Enbridge has recently been found guilty of criminal trespass and unjust enrichment in a lawsuit with the […]
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