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Minnesota court affirms Enbridge Line 3
Water protectors vow to continue the fight against controversial pipeline project
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Jun 14, 2021
Sections of pipe await placement near Grand Rapids, Minnesota for the Enbridge Line 3 project. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember, Indian Country Today)
Water protectors vow to continue the fight against controversial pipeline project
Mary Annette Pember
The Minnesota Court of Appeals on Monday affirmed state regulators’ key approvals of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project, in a dispute that drew more than 1,000 water protectors opposing the project last week.
A three-judge panel concluded 2-1 that the state’s independent Public Utilities Commission correctly granted Enbridge the certificate of need and route permit that the Canadian-based company needed to begin construction on the 337-mile Minnesota segment of Line 3.
The operation was just one part of an ongoing investigation, Columbia Police Department Assistant Chief Jeremiah Hunter said Monday.
There wasn t any one incident that jumpstarted the investigation, he added. This has been an operation that has been planned for several months with the (Missouri) Attorney General s Office and the Missouri Highway Patrol, Hunter said. There was not a tip or anything that kind of triggered the operation. This was a planned investigation that took a lot of resources and additional agencies to come together to make happen.
The investigation was about connecting dots between seemingly disparate incidents, Hunter said. The department and the other agencies were looking for patterns.
Human trafficking incident in Columbia brings light on the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world
COLUMBIA, Mo. (KMIZ)
Human trafficking victim groups are concerned over the lack of knowledge in the Columbia community concerning the fastest growing criminal enterprise in the world.
On Friday night, authorities detained two suspects and are now investigating after a human trafficking operation led to the discovery and rescue of nine victims and two children at the Holiday Inn East Columbia.
Nanette Ward with the Stop Human Trafficking Coalition of Central Missouri described trafficking as, the exploitation of vulnerability. Ward said this involves someone who is taken advantage of for commercial sex or for forced labor for someone else s profit.
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