As Governor Tony Evers took the stage during the annual Wisconsin Association for Justice dinner, an audience member rose to lead a toast for the state’s leader.

But rather than honoring Evers’ accomplishments, the patron issued a challenge. Thrusting a glass of thick black fluid into the air, Tom Hoy asked Evers to drink the liquid which served as a representation of Lake Superior’s waters which protesters say will be contaminated by oil and other hazardous waste from Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline if the state, and Evers specifically, doesn’t revoke the company’s construction permits.

“I have a glass of water with crude oil,” Hoy announced, holding aloft a cup filled with liquid resembling oil-laden water. “Will you drink the future waters of Lake Superior, sir?”

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