Line 5 is on the verge of an environmental and human health disaster: [link removed]

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Dear Friend,

Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline has threatened the Great Lakes for 70 years, and after decades of erosion, the pipeline is at risk of a catastrophic oil spill. Built in 1953 by the Canadian oil giant Enbridge, the outdated pipeline carries up to 23 million gallons barrels of petroleum per day from western to eastern Canada, cutting through Tribal territories in Wisconsin and Michigan and running beneath the heart of the Great Lakes. It’s estimated that Line 5 has spilled more than 1 million gallons of oil over 33 incidents. Send a letter today and tell the Biden administration to decommission Line 5! [link removed]

Last week, a federal court ordered Enbridge to shut down and decommission within three years a segment of the pipeline that is trespassing on the reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. However, heavy flooding and rapid erosion in the Bad River this spring has shown that a more immediate shutdown is needed to prevent a rupture and an oil spill.

Even worse, Enbridge wants to re-route the pipeline to get around the Bad River Band’s reservation, keeping their oil and their profits flowing through the same watershed. But the re-route project is a false solution that doesn’t protect the Band -- or the rest of the Great Lakes -- from the threat of Line 5. The only way to prevent the environmental, economic, and human health consequences of an oil spill is to shut down Line 5.

The Bad River Band has relied on fishing, wild rice, medicines, and other plants and animals from the Bad River and Lake Superior for centuries. A rupture poses a catastrophic threat to their culture, their livelihoods, and to the wider public. Now, it is up to the Biden administration to use its power to decommission the pipeline by revoking the presidential permit for Line 5. Send a letter to the Biden administration to decommission the Line 5 pipeline today! [link removed]

Sincerely,
Stefanie Tsosie
Senior Attorney
Tribal Partnerships Program

TAKE ACTION: [link removed]

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