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Last month the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced the decision to issue Enbridge Inc a wetland and waterway permit with hundreds of conditions to replace a segment of its Line 5 liquid petroleum pipeline in Ashland and Iron counties. This happened while the Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians has two legal cases against Enbridge.

On today’s show, host Esty Dinur speaks with folks with long histories fighting against oil pipelines. Paul DeMain (Skabewis) joins the program to discuss the dangers Line 5 poses to Lake Superior and the millions of people who rely on it for fresh water. Greg Mikkelson also joins the show to discuss the collaboration across the US/Canada border to push back against Enbridge pipelines. As a special treat Marc Rosenthal is in the studio to help raise funds for WORT’s 49th birthday.

You can learn more about the The Cross Border Organizing Working Group of the Line 5 Coalition at the Communities United by Water website.

Born in Madison, Greg Mikkelson worked in Canada as a tenured professor of environmental studies until 2020. In that capacity, he lectured and published in ecology, philosophy, and economics, with a focus on the nature, causes, and value of biological diversity. He also helped divest his university from fossil fuel. He now serves as an interdependent (not “independent”) scientist and activist. In 2021, he joined a wonderful and growing bunch of people campaigning to shut down tar sands pipelines in the Great Lakes/St. Lawrence watershed.

Paul DeMain (Skabewis), is Oneida and Ojibwe from the Lac Coutre Oreilles reservation in Northern Wisconsin. He is the former editor of News from Indian Country (published from 1986-2019), a producer for IndianCountryTV.com, and the Board Chair for the Minnesota environmental advocacy organization, Honor the Earth.

Photo by Chuck G on Unsplash

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