October 17, 2022
Pipeline owner Enbridge Energy Co. isn't going to be able to clawback all the documents it accidentally turned over in its fight with tribal leaders who want the pipeline rerouted, a Wisconsin federal judge has ruled.
October 05, 2022
Tribal leaders in Wisconsin are defending a group of energy and transportation experts who they say help illustrate that a major oil and gas pipeline on their reservation is expendable, and berating the pipeline owner, Enbridge Energy Co., for an "ill-conceived" bid to preclude their testimony.
September 08, 2022
A Wisconsin federal judge has handed quick wins to a Chippewa tribe on several claims in its challenge to Enbridge Energy Co.'s Line 5 pipeline, but declined to immediately shut down the pipeline because of what the judge called the "significant public and foreign policy implications" of such a move.
August 31, 2022
The Bad River Band has told a Wisconsin federal judge that Canada's recent start of treaty negotiations with the U.S. to try to maintain Enbridge Energy Co.'s Line 5 pipeline "changes nothing" about the tribe's suit to block it.
June 16, 2022
A group representing Michigan and Wisconsin businesses urged a federal judge Thursday to shut down Enbridge Energy Co.'s Line 5 pipeline on the Bad River Band's tribal land, saying there's little risk to the local economy from a shutdown, while a potential oil spill could prove catastrophic for the businesses.
May 11, 2022
Business and energy industry advocates backed Enbridge Energy Co.'s efforts to significantly trim down a suit aiming to shut down the company's Line 5 pipeline, telling a Wisconsin federal court that closing the pipeline would be disastrous for the economies of the U.S. and Canada.
May 09, 2022
Enbridge Energy Co. urged a Wisconsin federal court to dismiss four out of six counts in a suit filed by the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians seeking to shut down its Line 5 pipeline, saying those counts are foreclosed by federal law.
April 26, 2022
More than a dozen trade unions told a Wisconsin federal court Monday that shutting down a controversial Enbridge Energy Co. pipeline could cost thousands of workers their jobs and devastate communities across the Midwest and Canada.
April 22, 2022
Enbridge Energy Co. has doubled down on its stance that it can operate a controversial pipeline on Wisconsin tribal land for another 21 years under a decades-old pact with the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians.
February 18, 2022
The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians has asked a federal judge to ditch Enbridge's counterclaim in a suit seeking to remove the Line 5 pipeline from tribal land in Wisconsin, saying the tribe didn't agree 30 years ago to allow whatever easements the company might need to keep the pipeline going.