WASHINGTON — For the second time in a year, the federal government is invoking a little-known 1977 energy treaty between Canada and the United States in an effort to prevent a federal court from shutting down the Line 5 pipeline.
This time, it's in Wisconsin, where Line 5 skirts the southwestern shores of Lake Superior before crossing into neighbouring Michigan, the state that wants the pipeline halted for fear of an ecological catastrophe in the Great Lakes.
"The economic and energy disruption and damage to Canada and the U.S. from a Line 5 shutdown would be widespread and significant," Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said in a statement.
That impact would include a spike in energy prices, including the propane that's used to heat homes across much of the U.S. Midwest, as well as gasoline prices, which tested new highs across the continent throughout much of an inflation-ravaged summer.
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