"On Indigenous Peoples Day 2025, Anishinaabeg tribes are worried that they will face man-made ecological disaster again. In this photo from July 2010, a police car blocks a road near a bridge where workers try to clean up an oil spill of approximately 840,000 gallons of crude oil from the Kalamazoo River in Marshall, Michigan, after a 30 inch-wide underground pipeline owned by Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge Energy Partners LP, began leaking on June 26."
"This Indigenous Peoples Day, the approximately 2,700 Ojibwe tribal members of the Bay Mills Indian Community in northern Michigan are marking the holiday amid fear that their region could face another environmental catastrophe like the one that occurred in 2010, when Enbridge's Line 6B oil pipeline burst and spilled over a million gallons of tar sands crude oil, contaminating the Kalamazoo River and over 40 miles in its watershed."
Approximately 2,700 Ojibwe members of the Bay Mills Indian Community in northern Michigan fear a new ecological catastrophe from the aging Enbridge Line 5 pipeline. Line 5 is a 72-year-old pipeline that travels from and back to Canada, crossing Wisconsin and Michigan and running under the Straits of Mackinac in the Great Lakes. The community recalls the 2010 Line 6B rupture that spilled over a million gallons of tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River and contaminated more than 40 miles of watershed. The pipeline was installed in 1953 without consultation with Anishinaabeg treaty rights, and momentum to decommission Line 5 has grown in response.
Read at Truthout
Unable to calculate read time
Collection
[
|
...
]