A Dane County judge has sided in favor of Enbridge Energy Company, taking a $25 million spill clean-up insurance requirement out of pipeline permit and prohibiting Dane County zoning from reconsidering it.
Dane County Circuit Court Peter Anderson made the ruling on Sept. 26, in the lawsuit Enbridge filed against Dane County, asking for the court to take out the insurance condition for the Town of Medina pump substation because it was illegal under a last-minute provision that Republican lawmakers put in the state biennial budget.
The Dane County Board of Supervisors voted to keep the condition in the permit with the hopes that the state law would change in the future and the company would have to provide the spill clean-up insurance....
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