Urge the Biden administration to shut down the Line 5 pipeline

Last week, a federal court ordered Enbridge to shut down and decommission within three years a segment of the pipeline that is trespassing on the reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. However, heavy flooding and rapid erosion in the Bad River this spring has shown that a more immediate shutdown is needed to prevent a rupture and an oil spill.  

Even worse, Enbridge wants to re-route the pipeline to get around the Bad River Band’s reservation, keeping their oil and their profits flowing through the same watershed. But the re-route project is a false solution that doesn’t protect the Band  — or the rest of the Great Lakes — from the threat of Line 5. The only way to prevent the environmental, economic, and human health consequences of an oil spill is to shut down Line 5. 

The Bad River Band has relied on fishing, wild rice, medicines, and other plants and animals from the Bad River and Lake Superior for centuries. A rupture poses a catastrophic threat to their culture, their livelihoods, and to the wider public. Now, it is up to the Biden administration to use its power to decommission the pipeline by revoking the presidential permit for Line 5. Send a letter to the Biden administration to decommission the Line 5 pipeline today!