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Pressure Mounts Against Line 3 Pipeline Project $3 billion tar sands pipeline expansion project faces renewed resistance from Indigenous rights activists and environmentalists. Fiona McLeod January 27, 2021 Indigenous water protectors in Minnesota are demanding that President Biden who revoked permits for the Keystone XL during his first day in office scrap another tar sands pipeline project: the expansion of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3. Work on the controversial pipeline moved forward at the end of last year despite an undecided, tribally-led lawsuit requesting a court injunction to halt construction. Water protectors at a demonstration in Minnesota last December. Line 3 is a 1,097-mile pipeline transporting diluted tar sands from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. The project will expand the pipeline into important wetlands and Indigenous territories. Photo courtesy of Honor the Earth. ....
As Common Dreams has reported, climate justice and Indigenous rights advocates are opposed to the expansion of the Line 3 pipeline, which would send 760,000 barrels of crude oil every day through northern Minnesota, from Hardisty, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin traversing more than 800 wetland habitats, violating Ojubwe treaty rights, and putting current and future generations at risk of polluted water and a despoiled environment. Since Enbridge began working on the pipeline in late November despite pending lawsuits, opponents have attempted to halt construction through a series of direct actions, including Monday’s blockade. Democratic Gov. Tim Walz has responded “with complete silence,” Line 3 resistance activists said in a statement. ....
Not Just Another Pipeline The expansion of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline is a breathtaking betrayal of Minnesota’s Indigenous communities and the environment. By Louise Erdrich Ms. Erdrich, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is a novelist and poet based in Minnesota. Her most recent book is “The Night Watchman.” Dec. 28, 2020 A young Line 3 protester in Palisade, Minn., near a construction site this month.Credit.Alex Kormann/Star Tribune, via Associated Press PALISADE, Minn. My daughter and I are walking along the fast-flowing stream of pure darkness that is the young Mississippi River. We are two hours north of Minneapolis, in Palisade, Minn., where people are gathering to oppose the Line 3 pipeline. Patches of snow crunch on pads of russet leaves as we near the zhaabondawaan, a sacred lodge along the river’s banks. It is here that Enbridge is due to horizontally drill a new pipeline crossing beneath the river. We enter the lodge. ....
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