Company: ENBSF
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000895728-25-000012
Chunk: 73

Company: ENBRIDGE INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 73
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 12 allotted parcels (approximately $400,000 per year); (4) Enbridge must cease operation of Line 5 on any parcel within the Band's tribal territory without a valid right of way by June 16, 2026 and thereafter arrange prompt, reasonable remediation at those sites; and (5) The Court declined to allow for the Wisconsin Relocation Project to be completed prior to having to cease operations. The Final Judgment was entered on June 29, 2023. 

Enbridge filed its Notice of Appeal on June 30, 2023 and the Band filed its Notice of Cross Appeal on July 27, 2023. On December 12, 2023, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals requested the US to file a brief in this appeal as amicus curiae to address the effect of 1977 Transit Pipelines Treaty, and any other issues that the US believes to be material. Subsequently, the US filed its brief on April 8, 2024. As invited by the Court of Appeals, Enbridge and the Band filed their respective responses to the US amicus brief on April 29, 2024. We anticipate the Court of Appeals will issue a decision in 2025.

In March 2025, after receiving authorizations from tribal, federal, and state agencies, an erosion mitigation project was successfully installed at the Meander.

MICHIGAN LINE 5 DUAL PIPELINES - STRAITS OF MACKINAC EASEMENT

Michigan Attorney General Lawsuit

In 2019, the Michigan Attorney General (AG) filed a complaint in the Michigan Ingham County Circuit Court (the Circuit Court) that requests the Circuit Court to declare the easement granted to Enbridge in 1953 for the operation of Line 5 in the Straits of Mackinac (the Straits) to be invalid and to prohibit continued operation of Line 5 in the Straits. On December 15, 2021, Enbridge removed the case to the US District Court in the Western District of Michigan (US District Court). The removal of the AG's case to federal court followed a November 16, 2021 ruling, which held that the similar (and now dismissed) 2020 lawsuit brought by the Governor of Michigan to force the shutdown of Line 5 raised important federal issues that should be heard in federal court. The AG subsequently filed various motions and appeals (opposed by Enbridge) to remand the case.