Nine months later, another Canadian pipeline successfully crossed the finish line to complete the construction of a new route from the same source similarly attacked by environmental activists.
A $3 Billion Insurance Policy The Line 3 Replacement project was launched by the Calgary-based energy firm Enbridge in 2017 after the U.S. Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency ordered aging pipelines to be replaced.
Line 3 map In 1991, a pipeline rupture spilled 1.7 million gallons of crude oil into the Prairie River near Grand Rapids, Minn., in the largest inland U.S. oil spill.
Rather than abandon the pipeline, Enbridge initiated a $2.9 billion project to construct a new one while it cleans up the old.
"That's because a system is not in place that says 'Here's an option for you to be able to run off the grid on vegetable oil, on diesel,' sustainably without also going broke." Others gave similar answers, each united in their efforts to not only stop the pipeline, but end the use of fossil fuels while preserving what they described as "Tribal sovereignty." "It is really not just an environmental issue here," Minneapolis-area U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar told ABC News last month.
The new pipeline now circumvents the Leech Lake Reservation where the old one existed.
While the pipeline no longer infringes on reservation property at Leech Lake, the map below from the opposition group's website claims treaty land encompassing nearly half the state based on agreements predating the Civil War.
The same national coalition that provoked President Barack Obama to first halt construction of the Keystone Pipeline in 2015 never came to fruition against Line 3.
In September, a group of far-left House members known as "The Squad" pressed Biden to cancel the latest pipeline project.
The cancellation never came from an administration - which features an interior secretary who rose to prominence over activism against the Dakota Access Pipeline - that even backed the pipeline in court litigation this summer.
After Biden canceled the Keystone XL pipeline, Energy Secretary Granholm says "Pipe is the best way" to transport fuel pic.
Monday, October 11, 2021
After Keystone Pipeline Cancellation, Oil Begins To Flow Through New Route On Line 3
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