The legal challenge is yet another effort by the tribe to prevent the Canadian-owned corporation Enbridge from operating near the Bad River Reservation
A legal brief by the Department of Justice (DOJ) agreed that a Canadian pipeline company is trespassing on a tribal reservation but stopped short of asserting that the government can take meaningful action to shut down the fossil fuel infrastructure. The amicus brief, filed April 10 in the 7th Circuit
It started with a flood. A great turtle rose out of the untamable waters. Thus, in Ojibwe tradition, the world was born. The Great Lakes of Michigan are the most sacred of places for Ojibwe peoples; five bodies of interconnected freshwater lakes are the origin of all life and the
A climate protester named Mama Julz spent February 1 locked to a grounded helicopter, the kind usually used to transport construction workers to remote portions of the Mountain Valley Pipeline, the rushed and ecologically destructive pet project of West Virginia Sen. Joe Manchin. After a few hours, police arrested Mama
In any other business arrangement, Enbridge would be long gone from the Bad River Reservation. The contract between the oil company and the tribal band says the easements permitting the Line 5 pipeline to operate on the reservation ended in 2013. A federal judge agreed in 2022, meaning the oil
Despite the harm oil companies like Enbridge have already caused, a federal judge refused to decommission Line 5
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