In a massive collective effort to protect the Great Lakes and shut down Line 5, organizations and participants part of the Fish for the Future campaign https://www.sierraclub.org/wisconsin/blog/2025/07/86262-fish-thousands-people-one-powerful-message
broke the world record for the largest display of origami fish. The campaign collected a total of 86,262 fish. A photo album of the full collection was displayed in Milwaukee, WI, on July 12, and is here https://www.fishforfuture.org/world-record-gallery. Approximately 20,000 paper fish are headed to events in Michigan, including the Kanoe the Kazoo https://kalamazooriver.org/events/kanoe-the-kazoo/ event on July 26, marking the fifteenth anniversary of the Enbridge oil disaster on the Kalamazoo River.
Participants across the world mailed thousands of origami fish to promote protecting our water and shutting down the Line 5 pipeline. The world record for the largest display of origami fish was previously set at 18,303 origami fish by a group in Japan.
Display a Piece of History
More than 70,000 origami fish were displayed in Milwaukee, Wisconsin on July 12, 2025, as a powerful call to shut down Line 5. Enbridge’s Line 5 is a dangerous, aging oil pipeline that threatens the Great Lakes, trespasses on tribal land, and puts our climate at risk.
You can share the strong message that was displayed — sign up to host a small piece of history in the form of some of the fish that were part of breaking the world record with a message.
Sign up below for a display that you will help put up at a café, coffee shop, school, library or any other place that will host the display and spread the message of the need to protect the Great Lakes from an oil spill.
Line 5 Legal Challenge Reaches the Supreme Court
One of the legal battles surrounding Line 5 is headed for the U.S. Supreme Court. The suit, filed by Attorney General Dana Nessel in 2019 versus Enbridge Energy, has experienced multiple delays over whether the case belongs in state or federal court. The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to take up the venue fight later this year. The Supreme Court will have the final say in where the case belongs, but will not weigh in on the proposed tunnel or shutting down the pipeline altogether.
Bombshell Investigation Reveals Questionable Land Swap Deal
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel recently released a bombshell investigative report claiming Enbridge entered a land swap agreement with Emmet County back in December 2022. One of the parcels of land was a planned staging area for Enbridge’s proposed tunnel and was subject for review by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to determine if harm would come to historic sites and artifacts.
What’s raising eyebrows is the land Emmet County received was worth almost eight times more than the land Enbridge received in return. On top of that, Enbridge paid Emmet County $1.5 million. The county then paved over the land to create a parking lot in the fall of 2023.
By swapping the land, Enbridge appears to have escaped federal review of land which is believed to have items of cultural significance to the Odawa tribes. Neither the Army Corps nor the tribes were aware of the land deal at the time.