2/25/2026

ASHLAND COUNTY - After a years-long court battle, construction is now underway on Enbridge’s Line 5 re-reroute project in northern Wisconsin just hours after the final permit was approved.  That ruling from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers came down yesterday. Part of that route takes the pipeline through the Bad River Reservation.  The reroute project is expected to bring millions of dollars in construction related spending to Ashland, Bayfield and Iron counties.  State permits were upheld in a court decision earlier this month resulting in the band river band of Lake Superior Chippewa filing a petition for a judicial review on the administrative law judge’s decision.  Line 5 starts in Superior and runs through northwest Wisconsin and into Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.