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LINE 5

The oil and gas pipeline will operate across northern Wisconsin for now.
Enbridge said it could not find a leak and believe the contamination was from a past spill.
Approval of the Enbridge Line 5 relocation project means more Wisconsin jobs, more union jobs, and prevents additional supply and price disruptions on our state’s families.
A shortage of workers is burning out corrections officers and affecting inmates.

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Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife Commission says Wisconsin DNR analysis includes flaws "large and small."
LANSING, Mich. — Gov. Gretchen Whitmer is shutting down Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline, citing multiple violations by the company of the 1953 easement with the state, along with a duty to protect the Great Lakes.
At issue is a proposed replacement of the 67-year-old, twin pipelines Enbridge currently operates along the Straits of Mackinac lake bottom.
Most commenting in a virtual public meeting with the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources opposed the pipeline.
The proposed pipeline reroute would stretch approximately 42 miles of new 30-inch pipeline south of the Bad River reservation.
It would replace the underwater segment of the Line 5 pipeline that runs from Superior, Wisconsin, to Sarnia, Ontario.

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Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison: “The people of Michigan, who share the Great Lakes with us, have as much of a right to control their underwater land as the people of Minnesota do. By supporting Michigan, I’m protecting Minnesotans.”
The company had not yet received a response from the tribe on its offer as of Tuesday afternoon.
Canadian energy firm says it hopes to address Bad River Band's concerns

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