Federal Judge: Trespassing Pipeline On Tribal Land Must Be Shut Down In 3 Years

(June 23, 2023, 2:59 PM EDT) -- MADISON, Wis. — An Indian tribe is entitled to permanent injunctive relief and monetary damages for the past and continued trespass of an oil pipeline that crosses the tribe’s reservation because it runs along easements that have expired and the threat of rupture has increased due to the movement of a river, a Wisconsin federal judge held in ordering the pipeline’s owner and operator to cease operations on the reservation within three years....