Ensure Line 5 keeps running until reroute completed in 2026, Enbridge asks U.S. judge

WASHINGTON –

Enbridge Inc. needs a U.S. decide to verify that the controversial Line 5 pipeline will not be shut down earlier than it may be rerouted round Indigenous territory.

The Calgary firm is asking Wisconsin district court docket Judge William Conley to make clear his order that the pipeline be moved throughout the subsequent three years.

The Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Chippewa has been preventing Enbridge in court docket since 2019, saying the corporate not has permission to function on its land.

Conley has given the corporate till June 2026 to complete the deliberate reroute, however was not express about whether or not Line 5 can hold working within the meantime.

In its newest court docket submitting, Enbridge asks Conley to make it clear that the pipeline can proceed to function on Bad River territory till the reroute is completed.

Enbridge says it expects the allowing course of for the extension to wrap up a while in 2025, and that relocating the part of pipe would take a few yr.

This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed June 26, 2023.