Re-routing Line 5 risks Tribal health and the safety of a critical Great Lakes watershed: [link removed]

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Dear Friend,

For more than a decade, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa has fought to remove the Line 5 oil pipeline from their homeland in northern Wisconsin. A federal judge recently ruled in their favor, agreeing that Enbridge is illegally trespassing on the Bad River Band’s reservation. However, Enbridge wants to re-route the pipeline to get around the reservation’s boundaries, keeping the oil and the profits flowing while putting the entire watershed and the people who depend on it in the path of a potentially devastating oil spill.

Now the Army Corps of Engineers is pushing full steam ahead on the federal permit process without understanding the project’s dangers to state and Tribal water quality. Urge the Army Corps to delay their public hearing until the State of Wisconsin and the Bad River Band weigh in.
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The re-route project is a false solution that doesn’t protect the Band or the Great Lakes from the threat of Line 5, which carries up to 23 million gallons of oil and gas each day. Studies show that shutting down Line 5 would have almost no impact on jobs, prices, or fuel supplies in Wisconsin. Yet an oil spill could devastate the region’s economy and end centuries of cultural practice and identity for members of the Bad River Band, who have relied on the wild rice, the fish, and the watershed for hundreds of years. Before rushing to invest in a risky pipeline that will prolong fossil fuel emissions decades into the future, the Army Corps must do a proper environmental review. Send a letter to the Army Corps today to delay the public hearing and give both Wisconsin and the Bad River Band a chance to weigh in. [link removed]

Sincerely,
Stefanie Tsosie
Senior Attorney, Tribal Partnerships Program

TAKE ACTION: [link removed]

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