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Enbridge taps new approach for pipelines - Indian Country Today

Enbridge taps new approach for pipelines
An ongoing series: Growing use of âcorporate social responsibilityâ helps companies bypass tribal opposition
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Apr 11, 2021
Water protectors rally against Enbridge s Line 3 pipeline in March 2021 and commemorate a pipeline spill that took place along the Prairie River near Grand Rapids, Minnesota in 1991. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember)
An ongoing series: Growing use of âcorporate social responsibilityâ helps companies bypass tribal opposition
Mary Annette Pember
It’s the dead of winter in Minnesota, and the woman’s footsteps make a distinctive crunching sound as she walks down a snow-covered road.
She and others are conducting an Ojibwe pipe ceremony along the Mississippi River, offering a ground blessing and prayers for the safety and health of people working on Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline project. ....

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Treaty rights acknowledged for first time in oil pipeline's controversial history

© Photo by Whitney Gravelle
Michigan s Indigenous communities hold long-standing legal right to protect lands and waters.
On any given day, Jacques LeBlanc Jr. spends as many as 14 hours on the water catching whitefish. Out on his boat by the time the sun breaks the horizon over the Great Lakes, he moves between Michigan, Huron, and Superior for the best spots. In this part of northern Michigan, at the eastern end of the Upper Peninsula, fishing is a staple of LeBlanc’s Bay Mills Indian Community, one of the Sault Ste. Marie bands of Chippewa.
Fishing on the Great Lakes is no easy task. It is threatened by the changing climate, disturbed by invasive species, and overrun by unruly weather to daily operation costs. But just south of LeBlanc’s tribal community lies another impediment that endangers his way of life. It is Line 5, the twin petroleum pipelines that run underwater for five miles across the Straits of Mackinac. ....

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