Tribe and Environmental Groups Offer New Line 5 Challenges

Frederica Freyberg:
Environmental groups and the Bad River tribe in northern Wisconsin this week formally challenged wetland and waterway permits the DNR issued to reroute the Enbridge oil pipeline that traverses tribal land. Bad River Tribal Chairman Robert Blanchard expressed worries about the pipeline damaging the ecosystem.

Robert Blanchard:
We do have a annual harvest of our wild rice, which is, which grows along the rivers here in Bad River and in Lake Superior, and we hunt, we fish, and we gather a lot of our, our medicines that that we use to heal ourselves here. And, and if they are — something happens to them, you know, our people are going to feel that, you know. We have a lot at stake here.