NationofChange
Will the fight over a northern Minnesota pipeline project have global repercussions?
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A decades-old pipeline called Line 3, run by the Canadian company
Enbridge, is in the midst of a controversial upgrade. That has sparked
fierce resistance from Indigenous communities living along the route.
Line 3 is being replaced to transport nearly 800,000 barrels of dirty tar sands crude oil per day from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. The pipeline cuts across northern Minnesota, where the Anishinaabe people have treaty rights to hunt, fish, and harvest wild rice and maple syrup.
The United States has more pipelines,