The state wants the shovels down. The company still has a Saturday target
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Secretary Karen Hyun wrote Enbridge on September 9 asking the company to halt construction of a temporary Line 5 bypass around the Saxon, Wisconsin NGL release site. Hyun said Enbridge was prioritizing restart without the department's approvals and should put the unresolved spill first.
A separate September 9 notice of noncompliance from DNR staff said Enbridge told the department on September 7 it was moving ahead with the bypass without authorization. Inspectors later saw wetland matting, three bridges over an unnamed tributary to Spoon Creek, and erosion controls the agency called insufficient. The bypass sits outside the workspace already permitted for the Line 5 reroute.
Enbridge spokesperson Juli Kellner said Friday the company is still working both files in parallel: remediating the August 25 third-party line strike and completing the bypass so the pipe can return to service. Enbridge's September 10 incident update kept a September 12 restart goal. The U.S. Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration has a corrective action order on the failed section.
Line 5 has been isolated since August 25. Enbridge has said the release was about 1.3 million gallons of NGLs, mainly propane and butane. Keyera has about $30 million of 2026 Marketing margin riding on when Sarnia volumes resume.
Neutral read
ENB is on the listed pipeline list. Banks were skipped. A DNR halt request dated September 9 and a company September 12 target are the facts. Write this as a permit fight on the eve of restart, not as a permanent Canadian capacity loss. Watch whether service actually resumes Saturday and whether Wisconsin opens an enforcement file.