Fearing Oil Spills, Tribe Sues to Get a Major Pipeline Removed from Its Land

Driven by fears of erosion that threatens to expose a crude oil pipeline to rushing water, a Native American tribe is suing pipeline giant Enbridge to force it to shut down and remove an aging pipeline from tribal land. The Bad River is scouring away a section of riverbank where the pipeline is buried, the lawsuit says. “It could be as soon as the next major flood event that that pipe gets exposed and taken out,” said Tribal Chairman Mike Wiggins Jr.