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This is a feature at Global Economic Intersection every Monday evening or Tueday morning. Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. MPCA investigating Enbridge Line 3 nontoxic spill - - The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency is investigating a drilling fluid spill that occurred on the Willow River in Aitkin County at one of Enbridges construction sites for its new Line 3 oil pipeline. Drilling was halted after the nontoxic spill was discov...

Line 3 pipeline opponents appeal to Minnesota Supreme Court Tribal and environmental groups opposed to Enbridge Energys Line 3 oil pipeline project asked the Minnesota Supreme Court on Wednesday to overturn a lower court decision affirming the approvals granted by independent regulators that allowed construction to begin last December. Social Sharing The Associated Press · Posted: Jul 14, 2021 4:32 PM MT | Last Updated: July 14 Indigenous protesters and their allies occupy an active Enbridge...

Line 3 Oil Pipeline Opponents Appeal to Minnesota Supreme Court Construction is well underway on the controversial oil pipeline as detractors take to the barricades — and the courts. Activists occupy construction equipment at an Enbridge Line 3 pump station near Park Rapids, Minn., on Monday, June 7, 2021. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP) St. PAUL, Minn. (CN) — Minnesota environmentalists and Native American groups hoping to stop the construction of a controversial oil pipeline ha...

Line 3 opponents appeal to Minnesota Supreme Court The legal move came as protests continue along the route in northern Minnesota. Author: Enbridge construction of the Line 3 pipeline is continuing in northern Minnesota. Here, Winona LaDuke, White Earth Ojibwe and  executive director of Honor the Earth, conducts a media tour of an Enbridge construction sites near Park Rapid, Minnesota, on Sunday June 6, 2021. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember, Indian Country Today) The legal move came as protest...

The Wrap: Hardwood Indigenous Author: Headlines Tuesday, July 13, 2021 Osiyo, relatives. Each day we do our best to gather the latest news for you. Okay, heres what you need to know today: Tribe supplies wood for NBA floor in Milwaukee Watching Milwaukee Bucks star Giannis Antetokounmpo dominate in the NBA Finals is exciting. But a closer look to what Antetokounmpo sprints on and jumps off is just exciting for fans in Indian Country. The floor at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee is made from maple tr...

Minnesota regulators investigating fluid spill in Willow River by Line 3 crews Approximately 80-100 gallons of bentonite clay, water and xanthan gum — a sucrose-based food additive — was released July 6. 5:13 pm, Jul. 13, 2021 × A crew works in a 10-foot hole along Enbridges Line 3 oil pipeline near Bemidji in 2020. (Forum News Service file photo) Minnesota regulators are investigating the release of drilling fluid by crews attempting to route the Enbridge Line 3 o...

BRAINERD, Minn. (AP) — The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says it’s investigating a spill of drilling fluid into the Willow River in Aitkin County last week during construction on the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline. The agency says about 80 to 100 gallons of drilling fluid, or mud, were inadvertently released on July 6 at a construction site. Enbridge spokesperson Juli Kellner tells Minnesota Public Radio News that the company immediately shut down the drilling operation, and crews began ...

Fargo, ND, USA / 740 The FAN Jul 13, 2021 | 4:35 PM AITKIN, Minn. – The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency says it’s investigating a spill of drilling fluid into the Willow River in Aitkin County last week during construction on the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline. The agency says about 80 to 100 gallons of drilling fluid, or mud, were inadvertently released on July 6 at a construction site. Enbridge spokesperson Juli Kellner said that the company immediately shut down the drilling operation, ...

UPDATED (with Enbridge response): White Earth Tribal Council, Honor the Earth ask state and federal leaders to honor treaty rights The group called for Enbridge Line 3 work to be halted and all water permits that allow Enbridge to pump billions of gallons of water out of drought-stricken lakes and rivers in the 1855 Treaty Territory be suspended. Written By: Nathan Bowe | × Winona LaDuke is a member of the White Earth Nation as well as a social activist and writer. File photo. ...

Environmental groups and Ojibwe bands hoped Biden would pull permits from Line 3 as he had with the Keystone XL. The Army Corps' response to a lawsuit flies in the face of Biden's climate goals, they say.