Shut Down Line 5

Shut Down Line 5

Shut Down Line 5

Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline transports 22 million gallons of crude oil and natural gas liquids across 645 miles of countryside every day. This aging oil pipeline violates tribal treaty rights and poses catastrophic risks to the drinking water for 40 million people and one-fifth of the world's surface freshwater. Governor Whitmer of Michigan ordered Enbridge to shut down Line 5 in May 2021. Yet, Enbridge continues to operate Line 5 illegally in spite of Governor Whitmer's shut down order.

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Water Is Life. The Line 5 Oil Pipeline Threatens So Much of It.

New Documentary "Bad River" Details the Fight Against the Line 5 Pipeline

America’s Most Dangerous Pipeline Lives Another Day

The Dirty Secret at the Bottom of the Great Lakes

An investigation of the threats of crude oil being transported through one of the largest freshwater ecosystems in the world by a company with one of the most egregious environmental records.

The Great Lakes - Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, and Superior - account for one fifth of the world's surface fresh water.

The Great Lakes

Unfortunately, our Great Lakes are facing unprecedented dangers from pollution, water withdrawals, climate change, and more. Learn more how the Sierra Club regional chapters are working to protect these precious waters.

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Regional Campaigns

Michigan

Enbridge pipelines that travel through the Straits of Mackinac, known as Line 5, pose the dangerous risk of a potential oil spill in our Great Lakes. Read more.

Wisconsin

Line 5 has a long history of unleashing environmental damage. In the last 50 years, the pipeline has had 29 spills, releasing a total of 1.1 million gallons of toxic oil into the environment. Read more.

Minnesota

We’re building on years of organizing to stop Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline to bring relationships, lessons learned, and community power to other pipeline fights, including Line 5 in Wisconsin and Michigan. Read more.

Press Releases

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March 6, 2024

Wisconsin – A new documentary on the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa highlights its ongoing fight for sovereignty, including a David & Goliath battle to protect Lake Superior from a pipeline on the brink of rupture.

June 20, 2023

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Canadian oil company, Enbridge, to shut down the section of the disastrous Line 5 pipeline that trespasses on the reservation of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. The Bad River Band released…

December 19, 2022

Montreal, Canada -- As negotiations on a new 10-year plan to reverse the accelerating loss of life on Earth wrap up at the 15th UN Conference of Parties (COP15), Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline continues to threaten biodiversity, health, and climate.…

November 15, 2019

The Sierra Club filed an amicus brief with the Ingham County Circuit Court today in support of Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel’s lawsuit seeking to permanently decommission part of Enbridge's Line 5 pipeline.