Shutting Down the Great Lakes Oil Pipeline with the Bad River Band
Date / Time
October 21, 2024
5:30 pm - 7:00 pm
Location
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The Freshwater Lab at the University of Illinois Chicago invites you to a discussion panel entitled Shutting Down the Great Lakes Oil Pipeline with the Bad River Band.
Speakers:
Mike Wiggins Jr., past chairman of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and site director of the Madeline Island Museum
Aurora Conley of the Mashkiiziibii Natural Resources Department and Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa
Bad River is an Ojibwe community on Lake Superior famous for its wild rice, wetlands and sturgeon-supporting rivers. Since 2013, the tribe has been in a protracted struggle with Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline corporation, to remove a 71-year-old pipeline from the reservation and the Great Lakes watershed. What happens at Bad River has ramifications for the entire Great Lakes region.
