Company: ENBSF
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000895728-25-000012
Chunk: 76

Company: ENBRIDGE INC
Filing Date: 2025-05-09
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 76
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 its authority to bar DAPL's continued operation, notwithstanding the absence of an easement.

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On September 8, 2023, the Army Corps issued its draft EIS, which assesses the impacts of DAPL under five alternative scenarios: denying the easement removing the pipeline; denying the easement and leaving the pipeline in place; granting the easement with the prior conditions (which allow for the ongoing operation, maintenance and ultimate removal of the pipeline and its related facilities); granting the easement with some new safety conditions; and rerouting the pipeline. The Army Corps did not identify a preferred alternative. The public comment period that commenced on the issuance of the draft EIS closed on December 13, 2023. The pipeline will remain operational while the environmental review process continues. The final EIS is expected to be issued in 2025.

On October 15, 2024, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed a complaint in the District Court against the Army Corps, among others, seeking a permanent injunction prohibiting the continued operation of DAPL. The main allegations of the complaint are that the Army Corps is unlawfully permitting DAPL to continue to operate without an easement and without a determination under the National Environmental Policy Act, and that the Army Corps has failed to require that a compliant Facility Response Plan be submitted.  Several of the claims are similar to those in the litigation described above. Dakota Access, LLC and 13 states have intervened in the case in support of the Army Corps and continued operation of DAPL.  Dakota Access, LLC filed an answer to the complaint on December 19, 2024. On January 17, 2025, the defendants, Dakota Access LLC, and the 13 States filed motions to dismiss the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s complaint. Also on January 17, 2025, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe filed a motion for partial summary judgment on its claims. 

On March 28, 2025, the District Court granted the motion to dismiss the October 15, 2024 Complaint. 

The Tribes have until May 29, 2025 to file an appeal. 

OTHER LITIGATION

We and our subsidiaries are subject to various other legal and regulatory actions and proceedings which arise in the normal course of business, including interventions in regulatory proceedings and challenges to regulatory approvals and permits. While the final outcome of such actions and proceedings cannot be predicted with certainty, management believes that the resolution of such actions and proceedings will not have a