April 18, 2024
Enbridge Energy has said the U.S. government's recent brief to the Seventh Circuit in separate litigation over its Line 5 pipeline backs its challenge against Michigan over the state's attempts to shutter the project, arguing the federal government has a strong interest in ensuring that trade and diplomatic relations with Canada aren't affected.
April 11, 2024
The U.S. government sent mixed messages to the Seventh Circuit in weighing in on Enbridge's controversial Line 5 oil pipeline, saying a lower court was right to determine that the company is trespassing on tribal lands, but recommended that the case be remanded and that a tribe's public nuisance claim be dismissed.
December 18, 2023
Enbridge Energy Co. shouldn't be allowed to pay essentially "fair rental value" with a lower court's three-year pass allowing the company to continue operating a controversial pipeline on reservation land despite federal law stating such forced conveyance is invalid, a native tribe in Wisconsin told the Seventh Circuit.
October 24, 2023
A slew of Native American tribes argue that tribal sovereignty is central to a dispute involving the court-ordered shutdown of an Enbridge Energy oil and natural gas pipeline that traverses a Chippewa band's reservation, saying tribes must have the power to exclude non-Indians from their lands.
October 19, 2023
The state of Michigan is the latest party to wade into a Seventh Circuit appeal over the court-ordered shutdown of an Enbridge Energy oil pipeline that traverses a Wisconsin Native American tribe's reservation, warning the court in an amicus brief that the threat of a spill is "all too real."
October 18, 2023
An association of business leaders in Michigan and Wisconsin has told the Seventh Circuit that the economic consequences of shuttering Enbridge Energy's Line 5 oil pipeline would be far from catastrophic, backing a Wisconsin-based Native American tribe in its court battle to expedite the pipeline closure.
September 12, 2023
Enbridge Energy wants the Seventh Circuit to undo an order directing it to pay $5.2 million for trespassing and remove its "Line 5" pipeline from Wisconsin tribal lands in three years, claiming the tribe breached an agreement for continued operations and a judge failed to weigh harms a shutdown could have.