FOND du LAC INDIAN RESERVATION, Minn. (AP) â About a month ago, Taysha Martineau walked out of the protest camp she built in a small patch of woods near her home on the Fond du Lac Indian Reservation and knelt in the middle of the road.
Elders from her community surrounded her, scolding, telling her to leave.
âGo!â they shouted. âWe want you out of here! Donât do this to us!â
For several weeks, Martineau had been welcoming activists to the plot of land she had dubbed Camp Migizi â which means âeagleâ in the Ojibwe language â to take part in the yearslong fight against the Line 3 oil pipeline, a 380-mile replacement project that Enbridge Energy began building across northern Minnesota in December.
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is still weighing the EPA s permit suspension request. 5:42 pm, Mar. 8, 2021 ×
Plans for PolyMet include building dams to increase the storage capacity of tailings basins. One would be built in the distance to raise the basin on the right to the level of the area on the left. (Steve Kuchera / 2017 file / News Tribune)
A federal judge approved the Environmental Protection Agency s proposal to study potential effects of PolyMet s copper-nickel mine on the downstream Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, beginning a 90-day review.
But the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has not decided whether it will suspend a permit during that review, despite the EPA s request.
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Thefts
NEW LONDON A fish house was reported stolen Monday morning from a lot on the 17000 block of Minnesota Highway 23 Northeast.