‘We can’t drink oil’: how a 70-year-old pipeline imperils the Great Lakes

Tribes say Line 5 is a ticking time bomb' for the Great Lakes, which contain a fifth of the Earth's surface fresh water, and risks destroying their relationship with land and water

It's little known to the throngs of tourists who gawp at the wonder of the Great Lakes but at the meeting point of Lake Huron and Lake Michigan, a combined system that forms the largest lake in the world, there is a 70-year-old pipeline, battered and dented by dropped boat anchors.

The pipeline pushes a million gallons of oil each hour through the heart of this vast ecosystem.