Shut Down Line 5

Line 5 is an oil pipeline that is owned by Enbridge. It was built in 1953 and transports an average of 540,000 barrels a day of mostly tar sands oil from Superior, Wisconsin, to Sarnia, Ontario.

From Ganawendan Nibi: Protect Water – “The Line 5 Pipeline threatens Tribal land, Treaty Rights in the ceded territory, the Great Lakes, and the climate. The pipeline, which is long past its lifespan, is currently pumping tar sands oil under expired permits. Despite the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s request that Enbridge remove Line 5 and not put a pipeline in the Bad River watershed, Enbridge has moved forward with their reroute just south of the reservation. This expansion is within the watershed, and the risk to the treasured ecosystem remains.”

Learn more

• Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Proposed Enbridge Line 5 Relocation Project – Ashland, Bayfield, Douglas, and Iron Counties, Wisconsin. (2021 Dec.). WI DNR – https://widnr.widen.net/s/pmjdl6pbpd/el5_drafteis_dec2021_vol1-deis.%C2%A0
• Kates, M., & Farley, K. (2021, September 23). Bad River Band holds firm against Enbridge Line 5. The Progressive. https://progressive.org/latest/bad-river-against-line-5-kates-farley-210923/
• Line 5 – Sierra Club Wisconsin – https://www.sierraclub.org/wisconsin/line-5
• McCarten, J. (2022, February 16). Canada has replacements for Line 5 if pipeline shuts down, report says. Global News. https://globalnews.ca/news/8623719/canada-replacements-line-5-pipeline-shuts-down/
• Sivaraman, B. (2022, January 31). How a shoddy environmental review could cause a catastrophic oil spill in Wisconsin. Earthjustice. https://earthjustice.org/blog/2022-january/line-5-pipeline-wisconsin-bad-river-explainer
• Stebbins, L.G. (2021, May 13). Tribes, activists from across U.S. gather up north in solidarity of Line 5 fight. Michigan Advance. https://michiganadvance.com/2021/05/13/tribes-activists-from-across-u-s-gather-up-north-in-solidarity-of-line-5-fight/
• With, B. (2022, February 6). Enbridge puppets “honor” Bad River; get schooled by Mike Wiggins Jr. Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative. https://wcmcoop.org/2022/02/06/enbridge-puppets-honor-bad-river-get-schooled-by-mike-wiggins-jr/
• With, B., & Kemble, R. (2022, February 6). Citizens expose gross inadequacies in Enbridge Line 5 draft EIS, tell DNR to do their job. Wisconsin Citizens Media Cooperative. https://wcmcoop.org/2022/02/06/citizens-expose-gross-inadequacies-in-enbridge-line-5-draft-eis-tell-dnr-to-do-their-job/

Take action

• Line 5 Draft Environmental Impact Statement Toolkit – Sierra Club – https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wTfT4fB91Cf2jWWFXoVJo_DXYZ54ZZOkRFDxQ11g3LY/edit
• Oil and Water Don’t Mix – https://www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/
• Save the Great Lakes: Shut Down Line 5 petition from MoveOn.org – https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/save-the-great-lakes-2
• Shut Down Line 5 – from Stop Line 3 – https://www.stopline3.org/line5
• Stop Enbridge’s Line 5 – from Ganawendan Nibi: Protect Water – https://ganawendannibi.org/resources/