the cause of the spill to “corrosion fatigue” in the aging #pipeline, which was built in 1953.
This messy history weighs heavily on the future of the old pipeline, which is facing stress tests at two critical junctures along its 645-mile length from northern #Wisconsin across #Michigan to #Ontario, Canada.
A dozen miles of the Line 5 Pipeline cross through the Bad River Reservation in northwestern Wisconsin, home to the #BadRiverBand of the #LakeSuperior Tribe of #Chippewa Indians.
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