Built 71 years ago, the structure cuts directly through the Bad River reservation—a point of contention between the tribe and the pipeline’s owner, Canadian company Enbridge. In 2013 ...

The pipeline currently runs through the Bad River reservation. Enbridge proposes looping the line outside tribal land. Easements with the tribe expired years ago. In 2019, Bad River filed a ...

“Bad River” focuses on the latest chapter in that fight, a legal battle to get an aging crude oil pipeline removed from their reservation. The film, which was awarded Best Documentary at the ...

The Bad River Tribe has taken on a billion-dollar Canadian oil pipeline company to defend manoomin and the fresh waters that sustain it—and us all. At the northern tip of Wisconsin, a river meanders ...

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has proposed a new project to mitigate the immediate risks of erosion along the Line 5 oil pipeline, a move that comes amid fraught conflict between ...

MILWAUKEE — The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has testified against a permit for the Enbridge Line 5 extension in northern Wisconsin. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is considering a ...

And it’s right where that pipeline crosses Bad River,” said Blanchard. Enbridge’s Line 5 originates in Superior, runs through northern Wisconsin and Michigan, and ends in Canada. It is 645 ...

The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa is preparing to argue against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers issuing a permit to reroute Enbridge’s Line 5 oil pipeline in northern Wisconsin.

The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources issued permits to Enbridge for construction of its Line 5 oil and gas pipeline reroute around the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa reservation.

Decades-old battles to remove the Canadian-owned pipeline from the Bad River Band reservation by Lake Superior and the lakebed of the Straits of Mackinac have played out mostly in Wisconsin and ...

This comes after the Bad River Tribe sued the company in 2019 to shut down the pipeline and move it off of their lands. In November of 2024, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources granted ...