One of Wisconsin’s tribes is looking to block northern Wisconsin’s pipeline expansion.
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa filed two legal challenges to the proposed Line 5 reroute. Band Chairman Robert Blanchard says the Wisconsin DNR failed to consider his tribe, and failed to consider Enbridge’s troubles in Minnesota when agreeing to give the company permits to expand the pipeline around tribal lands. The tribe is both suing the DNR, and contesting the wetland and waterway permit that the state gave to Enbridge. Enbridge wants to reroute the pipeline away from most of the Bad River Band’s land, and bring oil and gas from Canada into the United States.
