Enbridge’s Sandpiper Blues

On Tuesday, Enbridge Energy announced that the Sandpiper pipeline project will be delayed for at least a year due to permitting problems in Minnesota. The start of construction was to be in 2015, with the pipeline becoming operational in early 2016. Minnesota regulators have requested a more extensive study of the environmental impacts of six possible routes […]

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‘Strong Hearts to the Front!’: Indigenous Water Protectors Take Direct Action Against Minnesota Tar Sands Pipeline

Construction on the Enbridge Line 3 extension—which will transport up to 760,000 barrels of the world’s dirtiest oil daily—began earlier this week, despite strong Native opposition. By Brett Wilkins, staff writer for Common Dreams. Published 12-4-2020 Indigenous-led water protectors on Friday engaged in multiple direct actions against Enbridge’s highly controversial Line 3 tar sands pipeline […]

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Midwest Battlecry Goes Up Against Tar Sands as Thousands March in St. Paul

‘Increasing the amount of toxic tar sands crude flowing into this region is not in keeping with a much needed transition to clean energy. Rejecting tar sands means fighting for clean water, clean energy, and a safer climate. There is simply no place for dirty oil in America’s future.’ By Jon Queally, staff writer for […]

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More Empty Promises

Back in March, I talked about Enbridge Energy’s proposed pipeline projects in northern Minnesota, One of them, the Sandpiper pipeline, is an all new pipeline from western North Dakota to Superior, part of it along new routes from past lines, which would be mostly to handle oil from the Bakken oil fields. Honor the Earth, a […]

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Oil’s Well That Ends Well?

In yesterday’s post, I talked about a Canadian company attempting to use northern Minnesota to generate a profit for their shareholders while avoiding responsibility for the environmental havoc they’d create while doing so. Today, we’ll discuss another Canadian company that’s trying the same thing. Enbridge Energy’s been in the news quite a bit recently due […]

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