Two Found Guilty in Wisconsin Pipeline Protest Case

The Enbridge Pipeline is now in Service

SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) – A jury has found two people guilty of disorderly conduct and obstructing an officer following a protest at Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 construction site in Wisconsin last summer.

Wisconsin Public Radio reports that 24-year-old Alexander Emery Good-Cane-Milk of South Dakota and 26-year-old Kyla L. Hassig of Minnesota were also found guilty of trespassing on the site where Enbridge was working to replace a 12.5-mile segment of its 1960s-era oil pipeline in Wisconsin.

Good-Cane-Milk secured himself to an excavator at the site while Hassig streamed the protest live on social media on Aug. 29, 2017. They also refused requests from Douglas County Sheriff’s Office deputies to leave the site.

Hassig was sentenced to 20 days in jail on the charge of obstructinf an officer and was ordered to pay a $100 fine plus court costs for each of her convictions for disorderly conduct and trespassing.

Good-Cane-Milk has not yet been sentenced. He is appearing in court again for a jury trial later this month on separate charges where it is suspected he will be sentenced for both cases at the same time if convicted.

Attorneys for Hassig and Good-Cane-Milk argued that their clients were concerned for the environment and others.

Enbridge has completed construction and the pipeline is now in service.