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, …
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 …
