When protestors lock themselves to heavy construction equipment or jump into the pipeline trenches, the task force turns to a special field force extrication team.
“This team that we have, basically takes about two hours from the time we call them until the time they re on scene with a trailer load of equipment to help extricate people off a pipe or out of a sleeping dragon or off of a piece of equipment,” Guida said.
The task force started planning years ago, in part because of what unfolded at the Dakota Access Pipeline in the fall of 2016.
Law enforcement monitoring the large encampment became overwhelmed and outnumbered at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. They eventually turned to water canons, pepper spray and other means of less-lethal force to disperse the crowds.
Activists continue fight to stop Line 3 as police agencies team up quell unrest
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Water Protectors Say Enbridge Is Pressuring Local Governments to Silence Them
Tania Aubid, a longstanding activist and member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, speaks to protesters about the environmental and human risks of allowing Enbridge Line 3 pipeline to be built across Northern Minnesota, in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 29, 2021.
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Palisade, Minnesota Even in the bitter cold, the pretty little park along the Mississippi River is inviting, a typical gathering spot for community events with its broad trees and public pavilion.
But Berglund Park stood empty recently as families and community members huddled around warming fires in an open field nearby, listening to music and eating Indian tacos as they learned about the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline cutting through their community.
The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending December 11th indicated that the quantity of natural gas held in underground storage in the US had decreased by 122 billion cubic feet to 3,726 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 284 billion cubic feet, or still 8.3% higher than the 3,442 billion cubic feet that were in storage on December 11th of last year, and 243 billion cubic feet, or 7.0% above the five-year average of 3,483 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have been in storage as of the 11th of December in recent years..the 122 billion cubic feet that were drawn out of US natural gas storage this week was less than the average forecast from an S&P Global Platts survey of analysts who had expected a 127 billion cubic foot withdrawal, but was higher than the average withdrawal of 105 billion cubic feet of natural gas that have typically been pulled out of natural gas storage during the same week over the past 5 years, and the
Aitkin County Sheriff’s Office arrests 22 pipeline protesters
Of those arrested, four were from northern Minnesota, 13 were from the Minneapolis/St. Paul metro area, and five were from out of state. None were from Aitkin County.
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Aitkin County sheriff s deputies drive near a tree occupied by activist Liam Delmain while construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline continues underneath them near Palisade last week. (Evan Frost / MPR News)
JACOBSON Demonstrations by those opposed to the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline project led to the arrests of 22 people this week in Aitkin County.
A Friday, Dec. 18, news release from the Northern Lights Task Force detailed the Monday events that led to the arrests along the Line 3 right of way on the 59000 block of Great River Road in the community of Jacobson.
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