ASHLAND, Wis. – The Army Corps wants to bow out of litigation between the Canadian oil pipeline company Enbridge and a northern Wisconsin Chippewa tribe over Enbrdge’s Line 5 pipeline at the Bad River reservation. The Corps says it has no role in the dispute under federal law. The Corps has scheduled a public hearing July 5 at Northwood Technical College in Ashland for comments on its position. At issue is the existing Enbridge Line 5 pipeline that since 1953 has carried crude oil and natural gas liquid through 12 miles of the Bad River Reservation near Ashland. In 2019 the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians began litigation to remove 12 miles of the pipeline. The line, the Band says,pur=tsb its land and streams at risk.
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