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 …
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 …
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Twelve of 17 members of a group that advises the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency on environmental justice issues have resigned over a permit for the controversial Enbridge Energy oil replacement project. The Environmental Justice Advisory Group delivered the letter Monday in protest of the agency’s approval last week of a key water quality permit for the …
MACKINAW CITY, Mich. — Images from an underwater vehicle seem to reveal stone patterns on the bottom of the Straits of Mackinac in northern Michigan, possible evidence of Native American artifacts from thousands of years ago, a newspaper reported. “People think of the edge of a glacier as a formidable place,” said John O’Shea, a Great Lakes archaeologist at the …