The Minnesota Area Agencies on Aging, through the Central MN Council on Aging has awarded Family Pathways a 2023 Federal Older Americans Act Title III contract.
The Fond du Lac Band chose to allow Enbridge to follow its existing route through the reservation. There is no perfect outcome here, tribal council Chairman Kevin Dupuis Sr. told Minnesota Public News at the time. All remaining options threaten the environment for all and livelihood of the Indigenous people of Minnesota.
When the Fond du Lac leadership agreed to allow Enbridge to use the existing route, they also agreed not to publicly oppose the project. And that has left Martineau worried that her opposition to Line 3 effectively pits her against the tribe s Reservation Business Committee, the governing body of the Fond du Lac Band.
Feb 25, 2021
CLOQUET, Minn. (AP) Jason Goward was overjoyed to get a high-paying job on Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline project.
The job, clearing ground with a contractor for the Canadian energy company, meant he could at last pay child support for his two young sons. He could buy groceries, pay for heat.
And maybe, just maybe, he could dig his way out of poverty.
“I thought if I worked for a couple of years at this, I could finally get ahead a little bit,” said Goward, 37, a citizen of the Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe. “I didn’t think about the impact of the pipeline on our lands and way of life.”
2021/02/24 23:29 CLOQUET, Minn. (AP) Jason Goward was overjoyed to get a high-paying job on Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline project. The job, clearing ground with a contractor for the Canadian energy company, meant he could at last pay child support for his two young sons. He could buy groceries, pay for heat. And maybe, just maybe, he could dig his way out of poverty. “I thought if I worked for a couple of years at this, I could finally get ahead a little bit,” said Goward, 37, a citizen of the Fond du Lac Band of Ojibwe. “I didn’t think about the impact of the pipeline on our lands and way of life.”