Enbridge paid police to protect one pipeline. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin.

Enbridge paid police to protect one pipeline. Now it wants to do it again in Wisconsin.

The Canadian oil pipeline giant Enbridge will pay Wisconsin law enforcement for riot suits, training and hours spent policing protests, according to an agreement approved by two counties last week. The secretive arrangement offers an uncapped funding source to local sheriffs as the company prepares for disruptive, Indigenous-led resistance to the controversial Line 5 reroute. Last Tuesday, Enbridge began construction on a 41-mile segment of Line…