A Wisconsin judge has ordered Calgary-based Enbridge to reroute a section of its controversial Line 5 pipeline and pay a local Chippewa community more than $5.2 million for illegally trespassing on its traditional reserve lands..US District Judge William Conley further ordered on Friday Enbridge to adopt a redevelopment plan and new route for nearly 20 km of the line that crosses the Bad River reservation within 21 days and remove it entirely within three years or forego a portion of the line’s profits for every day it remains in the ground..Line 5 transports 540,000 barrels of oil a day into the Great Lakes region before coming back up into Canada near Sarnia.. Line 5 routeA US judge is once again threatening to shut Line 5. .Although the company had previously agreed to reroute the line in 2020, it disputed the notion it was guilty of trespassing under a 1992 contract with the band that extends until 2043. .The tribe sued Enbridge in 2019 arguing that riverbank erosion posed an unacceptable environmental risk and that its contract was effectively terminated after pipeline easements expired in 2013 and weren’t renewed..The same judge ruled last year that Enbridge was guilty of trespass but stopped short of shutting the line citing market upheaval. If Enbridge fails to reroute the line, he indicated he would order the entire pipeline to be shut down..Although there was no formal response from Enbridge, a company spokesperson told the Washington Post it plans to appeal.."Enbridge agrees with the court’s decision to reject the band’s argument that Line 5 must immediately shut down; however, the company disagrees with several aspects of the court’s orders, including that Enbridge is in trespass and that Line 5 must cease operations on the Bad River Reservation within three years," it said.. Line 5 rerouteA US judge has ordered Enbridge to reroute a 12-mile portion of Line 5. .In court filings the company said that a rush to shut down the line would cause "extreme market turmoil" and jeopardize 6,000 jobs, including nearly $5 billion in lost economic output, increasing fuel costs by $20 million a year in Wisconsin and $30 million annually in Michigan. .Those numbers don’t include economic losses in Canada.."Shutting down Line 5 prior to completion of the proposed relocation project would jeopardize the delivery of reliable and affordable energy to U.S. and Canadian families and businesses, disrupt local and regional economies, and violate the Transit Pipeline Treaty," Enbridge spokesperson Juli Kellner told Wisconsin Public Radio..The company is awaiting approvals from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and the US Army Corps of Engineers for the line rerouting and said it would take about a year to complete at a cost of $450 million.
