Line 5 oil pipeline in Wisconsin about rights, climate | Mike Shriberg
What began as a straightforward question about water quality morphed into a high-stakes battle over an oil pipeline at the highest levels of the U.S. government — with implications far beyond the fate of a technical legal conflict.
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Proposed reroute of Enbridge Energy’s Line 5 through northern Wisconsin
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Enbridge began removing trees last week in northern Wisconsin to prepare for a reroute of Line 5 around the Bad River Reservation, the Associated Press reported.
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Shriberg is a professor and director of the Water Center at the University of Michigan.
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