“The fact that myself and other elected leaders of tribes have taken a stance against the pipeline doesn’t mean that our law enforcement agencies don’t have an interest in understanding what’s going on at the Straits with the pipeline,” says Bryan Newland, Chairman of the Bay Mills Indian Community. “It would be just like Enbridge reaching out to the Michigan State Police despite the fact that our attorney general and governor are opposed to the pipeline in the straits.”
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Kyle Whyte is a professor at Michigan State University and a citizen of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation who has written about Standing Rock. He says there’s a trend of companies trying to control public advocacy behind the scenes.
“Instead of companies proposing risky projects being subject to oversight, it’s citizens concerned about preventing risks who are subject to oversight from those seeking to impose the risks,” he says. “There is a problem of mutual accountability here.”
Enbridge Line 5
Gizmodo: “The Battle for Bad River”
Bad River Ojibwe Sues Enbridge
Here is the complaint in Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians v. Enbridge Inc. (W.D. Wis.):
Fletcher Testimony on the RESPECT Act before the House Indigenous Peoples Subcommittee
Worth a look, most especially for Dylan Minor’s excellent artistic rendering of the treaty cessions by Michigan Indian nations (skip ahead to page 15); available on SSRN here.
It was cherry blossom time, too!
And on the way over, we happened by the Japanese Internment Memorial, noting that the federal government placed many of the concentration camps on Indian reservations: Continue reading
Michigan AG Opinion: Mackinac Straits Corridor Authority Law is Unconstitutional [Line 5 — Good news!]
Here.
News Profile on Line 5 and Tribal Treaty Rights
Here is “‘We were here first’: Tribes say Line 5 pipeline tunnel ignores treaty rights.”
Bay Mills Objections to Modified Consent Decree in United States v. Enbridge
Michigan Radio Articles on Line 5
“‘You’ve gotta do it yourself’: Grand Traverse Tribe collects sonar images of Line 5”
From Michigan Radio, here.
ELPC and NWF Lawsuit Filed Against U.S. Coast Guard for Its Failure to Have a Sufficient Emergency Response Plan in Place in the Event of an Enbridge Line 5 Oil Pipeline Spill in the Great Lakes
Here is the complaint in Environmental Law and Policy Center v. United States Coast Guard (E.D. Mich.):
