Standing up to Enbridge over Line 5 pipeline
Bad River Band was in the middle of a legal fight with Canada-based Enbridge over its contentious Line 5 pipeline, which carries oil and gas from Alberta to Ontario while crossing the American border.
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Canada using 'outdated' treaty to do end run around Indigenous rights in U.S.: court documents
The argument comes from a recent flurry of filings in district court in Wisconsin, where the energy transmission giant is locked in a battle with a U.S. Indigenous band over the future of the cross-border conduit.
Enbridge given 2026 deadline to cease Line 5 operations on Wisconsin's Bad River land
The controversial Line 5 pipeline can keep moving fossil fuels through an Indigenous band's territory in Wisconsin for now, but operations on that property "must cease" on June 16, 2026, a U.S. judge says.
Canada-U.S. clash in pipeline debate over cross-border Line 5
North America's existential debate about the virtues and dangers of oil and gas pipelines faces a critical test today in Wisconsin.
Judge orders Enbridge, Indigenous band in U.S. to consider 'imperfect' alternatives to Line 5 shutdown
A Wisconsin judge ordered a Canadian energy giant and a U.S. Indigenous band to water down their wine Monday and come together to avert the "draconian" shutdown of the cross-border Line 5 pipeline.
Wisconsin judge rules against Enbridge on Line 5, but doesn't shut it down
The Line 5 pipeline has won a stay of execution in Wisconsin, where a federal judge sided with an Indigenous group's complaint but stopped short of ordering the controversial cross-border energy link shut down entirely.
Many U.S. politicians have 'sympathy' for Canada's Line 5 position: Wilkinson
White House officials, Capitol Hill lawmakers and the U.S. secretary of energy have all expressed "significant sympathy" for the plight of Canada's Line 5 pipeline, Natural Resources Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said on Thursday, May 12, 2022, after a day of meetings in the U.S. capital.