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PIPELINES & WISCONSIN'S WETLANDS

Pipelines cause major wetland disturbance. WWA’s intervention is changing the standards for construction practices and environmental oversight of pipeline projects. Read about WWA’s ongoing efforts to reduce wetland and waterway disturbance and degradation caused by intra-state pipeline projects. Active efforts in 2007 include oversight of construction practices along the 321-mile Enbridge construction route and input on permit conditions for the 119-mile Guardian 2 line.

> Enbridge Pipeline
The Enbridge Pipeline Southern Access projects stretches across 321 miles of Wisconsin’s landscape to deliver heavy crude oil from the Tar Sands region in Alberta Canada to oil refineries in Chicago. Construction to install a 42" and a 20" pipe crosses more than 1,200 acres of Wisconsin wetlands and 262 rivers and streams. Click the heading above for more information about WWA’s efforts to influence the environmental review and oversight of this project and Enbridge Pipeline’s repeated failure to comply with wetland and waterway permit conditions.

> Guardian Pipeline and Associated Laterals
Since 2002, WWA has worked to influence route selection, permit conditions and environmental oversight of the construction and restoration of pipelines delivering natural gas to Southeast and East-Central Wisconsin. Click the heading above to read about legal challenges and other successful interventions.