Green Bay Protesters Demand Pipeline Construction Be Halted

GREEN BAY, WI- (Wisconsin Radio Network) – Environmental protesters in Green Bay maintain that there has never been a pipeline that doesn’t leak.  A group showed up at the City Deck Saturday to demand construction on two pipelines that run through Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan be stopped.  Organizers say work on the pipelines violates treaties signed with Native Americans.  They say the oil companies are destroying wild rice fields.  Enbridge Energy says its construction permits include conditions specifically to protect wide rice waters.  They say the two pipelines have co-existed there for more than seven decades with no major problems.