Speak Out to Stop Line 5 for piping plovers

The over 70-year-old Line 5 crude oil pipeline runs along Lake Superior and trespasses across the reservation land of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. It’s a violation of Sovereign Tribal rights. Additionally, it threatens the drinking water and habitats for at-risk wildlife like the endangered piping plover.

A federal court ruled that Enbridge must remove Line 5 from the Bad River Band’s land, but now construction around a planned reroute continues to put the Bad River Band and Northern Wisconsin's people, wildlife, and clean water at risk.

Tell the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to protect Lake Superior and the wildlife and people that rely on it by denying Enbridge the permits to complete the Line 5 reroute

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Macaulay

Haller

Wisconsin DNR

Dear Macaulay Haller,

I am writing to provide public comment on Enbridge’s four streambank erosion control permit applications, and urge the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources to deny all four of the following permits to protect the health of people, wildlife, and our environment in the region:

- Unnamed Tributary to Brunsweiler River (Docket Number IP-NO-2025-2-N03672)
- Beartrap Creek (Docket Number IP-NO-2025-2-N03673)
- Little Beartrap Creek (Docket Number IP-NO-2025-2-03679)
- Bay City Creek (Docket Number IP-NO-2025-2-03680)

As we move toward a sustainable future, Enbridge Energy's Line 5 oil pipeline threatens Wisconsin's water and wildlife as well as the Tribal sovereignty of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. The planned reroute will impact the major rivers that flow directly into the Bad River Band's territory while posing serious risks to the surrounding watersheds and the wildlife and people that rely on them for clean water.

The Bad River Band has been forced to live under the threat of a Line 5 rupture on their land and waters for decades already, and the reroute will not remove the threat of a massive oil spill into their watershed and Lake Superior. Please deny Enbridge’s 4 permits to complete the reroute.

Sincerely,
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