anna_lillith 🇺🇦🌱🐖<p>the cause of the spill to “corrosion fatigue” in the aging <a href="https://mas.to/tags/pipeline" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pipeline</span></a>, which was built in 1953.</p><p>This messy history weighs heavily on the future of the old pipeline, which is facing stress tests at two critical junctures along its 645-mile length from northern <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Wisconsin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wisconsin</span></a> across <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Michigan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Michigan</span></a> to <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Ontario" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ontario</span></a>, Canada. </p><p>A dozen miles of the Line 5 Pipeline cross through the Bad River Reservation in northwestern Wisconsin, home to the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BadRiverBand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadRiverBand</span></a> of the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/LakeSuperior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LakeSuperior</span></a> Tribe of <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Chippewa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Chippewa</span></a> Indians.</p><p>2/7</p>