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Wisconsin tribe and other groups move to block pipeline reroute plans
1 week, 4 days ago

Wisconsin tribe and other groups move to block pipeline reroute plans

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A northern Wisconsin tribe along with a coalition of groups moved Thursday to block plans to reroute an aging pipeline around the tribe’s reservation, arguing state regulators have underestimated the environmental damage that construction would cause. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa filed a lawsuit in Ashland County asking a judge to stay the state …

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Tribe and environmental groups urge Wisconsin officials to rule against relocating pipeline
4 months, 1 week ago

Tribe and environmental groups urge Wisconsin officials to rule against relocating pipeline

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A tribal leader and conservationists urged state officials Thursday to reject plans to relocate part of an aging northern Wisconsin pipeline, warning that the threat of a catastrophic spill would still exist along the new route. About 12 miles of the Enbridge Line 5 pipeline runs across the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s reservation. Bad …

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Enbridge appeals to vacate an order that would shut down its pipeline
10 months, 2 weeks ago

Enbridge appeals to vacate an order that would shut down its pipeline

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — An attorney for the energy company Enbridge tried to persuade a federal appellate court Thursday to vacate an order that would shut down part of a pipeline running through a Wisconsin tribal reservation. About 12 miles of Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline runs across the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa’s reservation. The company contends that U.S. …

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Michigan regulators approve $500M pipeline tunnel project under channel linking 2 Great Lakes
1 year ago

Michigan regulators approve $500M pipeline tunnel project under channel linking 2 Great Lakes

Associated Press  

Michigan officials approved a $500 million plan Friday to encase in a protective tunnel a portion of an aging oil pipeline that runs beneath a channel connecting two Great Lakes, leaving just one more regulatory hurdle for the contentious project. The commission’s chairperson, Dan Scripps, said the tunnel is the best way to mitigate the risk of a spill as …

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Judge gives Enbridge 3 years to close oil pipeline on tribal land in Wisconsin
1 year, 6 months ago

Judge gives Enbridge 3 years to close oil pipeline on tribal land in Wisconsin

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A federal judge has given Enbridge three years to shut down parts of an oil pipeline that crosses reservation land and ordered the energy company to pay a Native American tribe more than $5 million for trespassing. The judge’s order said a rupture on tribal land “would unquestionably be a public nuisance” but denied that the threat …

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Judge orders Enbridge, tribe to form emergency pipeline plan
2 years ago

Judge orders Enbridge, tribe to form emergency pipeline plan

Associated Press  

MADISON, Wis. — A federal judge has ordered energy company Enbridge Inc. and an American Indian tribe to come up with an emergency plan to prevent potential spills from an aging oil pipeline running across the tribe’s reservation. The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa sued Enbridge in federal court in 2019 to force the company to remove a …

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Canada invokes treaty with US in dispute over Line 5 pipeline
3 years, 2 months ago

Canada invokes treaty with US in dispute over Line 5 pipeline

Al Jazeera  

Canada has been pushing the US to intervene in a dispute over a contentious oil pipeline project Michigan ordered shut. Canada has formally invoked an international treaty with the United States over Enbridge Inc’s Line 5 pipeline, escalating a dispute over the contentious project slammed by environmental and Indigenous groups. In a statement on Monday, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister Marc …

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Enbridge ordered to pay $3M for Line 3 groundwater leak
3 years, 3 months ago

Enbridge ordered to pay $3M for Line 3 groundwater leak

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Minnesota regulators have ordered Enbridge to pay more than $3 million for allegedly violating state environmental law by piercing a groundwater aquifer during construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement. The state Department of Natural Resources said Enbridge, while working near Clearbrook in January, dug too deeply into the ground and pierced an artesian aquifer, …

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Op-Ed: Will Biden choose fossil fuel or Minnesota’s rivers, and a cooler planet, in the fight against Line 3?
3 years, 5 months ago

Op-Ed: Will Biden choose fossil fuel or Minnesota’s rivers, and a cooler planet, in the fight against Line 3?

LA Times  

It was mid-afternoon on June 7 when nearly three dozen sheriffs, deputies and police arrived at the Two Inlets pump station site on Enbridge Inc.’s Line 3 oil pipeline, now under construction in northern Minnesota. “We should’ve been getting off fossil fuels before I was born.” With the Dakota Access pipeline’s permit under reconsideration and the Keystone XL pipeline canceled, …

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Minnesota court affirms approval of Line 3 oil pipeline
3 years, 6 months ago

Minnesota court affirms approval of Line 3 oil pipeline

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — 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 over 1,000 protesters to northern Minnesota last week. A three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that the state’s independent Public Utilities Commission correctly granted Enbridge the certificate of need and route permit …

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‘Reclaiming the land’: Indigenous fight against Line 3 ramps up
3 years, 6 months ago

‘Reclaiming the land’: Indigenous fight against Line 3 ramps up

Al Jazeera  

Protests against Line 3 pipeline are part of a larger movement to reclaim Indigenous land and culture in Canada and US. Construction resumes In early June, Ojibwe people called on allies to join them to delay construction and demand US President Joe Biden’s administration cancel Line 3 permits. From the company’s perspective, Line 3 has “passed every test”, completing a …

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Small Minneapolis event eyes Klobuchar to help stop Line 3
3 years, 6 months ago

Small Minneapolis event eyes Klobuchar to help stop Line 3

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — About 100 people gathered at a Minneapolis park Thursday before marching to Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s office to promote shutting down reconstruction of an aging oil pipeline in northern Minnesota. The half-hour program at Gold Medal Park included singing and speeches by activists insisting that Klobuchar pursue at least a delay on the final segment of the Enbridge …

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EXPLAINER: Why a rural pipeline is a climate battleground
3 years, 6 months ago

EXPLAINER: Why a rural pipeline is a climate battleground

Associated Press  

As Enbridge Energy prepares to finish rebuilding an oil pipeline across rural northern Minnesota, protesters are occupying part of the construction area and pledging a “summer of resistance” on the ground and in court. Enbridge, which has obtained all necessary state and federal permits for the Line 3 project, says it will be finished by year’s end. During a protest …

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Oil pipeline foes protest Enbridge’s Line 3 in Minnesota
3 years, 6 months ago

Oil pipeline foes protest Enbridge’s Line 3 in Minnesota

Associated Press  

SOLWAY, Minn. — Hundreds of protesters vowing to do whatever it takes to stop a Canadian-based company’s push to replace an aging pipeline blocked a pump station Monday in northern Minnesota, with some people chaining themselves to construction equipment before police began making arrests. Environmental and tribal groups say Enbridge Energy’s plan to rebuild Line 3, which would carry Canadian …

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Enbridge’s Line 3 oil pipeline enters critical month in June
3 years, 6 months ago

Enbridge’s Line 3 oil pipeline enters critical month in June

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — June will be a critical month for Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 crude oil pipeline as the company resumes construction and opponents mobilize for large-scale protests and civil disobedience. The opposition says the replacement pipeline, which would carry Canadian tar sands oil and regular crude, would aggravate climate change and risk spills in sensitive areas where Native Americans harvest …

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Oil pipeline disputes raise tensions between U.S. and Canada
3 years, 7 months ago

Oil pipeline disputes raise tensions between U.S. and Canada

Associated Press  

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Months after President Joe Biden snubbed Canadian officials by canceling Keystone XL, an impending showdown over a second crude oil pipeline threatens to further strain ties between the two neighbors that were frayed during the Trump administration. Gretchen Whitmer, a top Biden ally, ordered Canadian energy company Enbridge last fall to shut down its Line 5 …

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Wall Street’s greenwashing is a renewed threat to the planet
3 years, 8 months ago

Wall Street’s greenwashing is a renewed threat to the planet

Salon  

Fourteen months ago, Larry Fink, the CEO of BlackRock, the world's largest money manager, wrote a letter warning that climate change was on the verge of "fundamentally reshaping" the financial sector. Reducing humanity's greenhouse gas emissions is a race against time, and no bank should be taken seriously if its 2050 climate promises are not accompanied by actions that immediately …

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Buoyed by Keystone XL, pipeline opponents want Biden to act
3 years, 10 months ago

Buoyed by Keystone XL, pipeline opponents want Biden to act

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — After President Joe Biden revoked Keystone XL’s presidential permit and shut down construction of the long-disputed pipeline that was to carry oil from Canada to Texas, opponents of other pipelines hoped the projects they’ve been fighting would be next. A look at some other high-profile pipeline projects and what actions Biden might take: DAKOTA ACCESS Opponents of the …

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Michigan approves Great Lakes oil pipeline tunnel permits
3 years, 10 months ago

Michigan approves Great Lakes oil pipeline tunnel permits

Associated Press  

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Michigan’s environmental agency said Friday it has approved construction of an underground tunnel to house a replacement for a controversial oil pipeline in a channel linking two of the Great Lakes. The tunnel “will make a safe pipeline even safer,” spokesman Ryan Duffy said, describing the permit approval as “an important milestone” for a project “virtually …

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Enbridge rejects Michigan’s demand to shut down oil pipeline
3 years, 11 months ago

Enbridge rejects Michigan’s demand to shut down oil pipeline

Associated Press  

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Enbridge said Tuesday it would defy Michigan’s demand to shut down an oil pipeline that runs through a channel linking two of the Great Lakes, contending that Gov. Dan Eichinger, director of the state Department of Natural Resources, described the letter as “Enbridge’s attempt to power-wash the company’s long history of violating the terms of the …

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Enbridge starts construction on Line 3 in Minnesota
4 years ago

Enbridge starts construction on Line 3 in Minnesota

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — Enbridge Energy began construction on its Line 3 crude oil pipeline replacement in Minnesota on Tuesday, a day after state regulators approved the final permit for the $2.6 billion project amid legal challenges from local activist and Indigenous groups. “The workforce will ramp up as construction continues eventually creating over 4,000 family-sustaining, mostly local construction jobs, millions of …

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Minnesota gives final green light to disputed oil pipeline
4 years ago

Minnesota gives final green light to disputed oil pipeline

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — Minnesota regulators approved the final permit Monday for Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 crude oil pipeline replacement across northern Minnesota, giving the company the green light to begin construction on the $2.6 billion project. “Line 3 is poised to provide significant economic benefits for counties, small businesses, Native American communities, and union members – bringing 4,200 family-sustaining, mostly local …

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Enbridge sues Michigan over oil pipeline shutdown order
4 years ago

Enbridge sues Michigan over oil pipeline shutdown order

Associated Press  

TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Enbridge filed a legal challenge Tuesday to Michigan Gov. Vern Yu, the company’s president for liquids pipelines, said the state should “stop playing politics with the energy needs and anxieties of U.S. and Canadian consumers and businesses that depend on Line 5.” Whitmer spokeswoman Tiffany Brown said Enbridge’s suit “brazenly defies the people of Michigan and …

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Minnesota issues another approval for disputed oil pipeline
4 years ago

Minnesota issues another approval for disputed oil pipeline

Associated Press  

MINNEAPOLIS — A Minnesota regulatory panel on Tuesday signed off on Enbridge Energy’s planned Line 3 crude oil pipeline replacement across northern Minnesota, leaving only one minor state permit to go before construction can begin. Enbridge said in a statement that the authorization to begin construction means only a final construction storm water permit is needed from the Minnesota Pollution …

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