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Enbridge has paused work near the incident area. Written By: Forum News Service | 3:45 pm, Dec. 18, 2020 × HILL CITY, Minn. — A contractor working at a construction yard near Hill City, Minn., associated with the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline project was killed in an accident Friday morning, Dec. 18. "Enbridge has paused work in the area of a fatal accident involving a contractor at a construction yard this morning in Hill City, Minnesota," Enbridge spokesperson Juli Kellner said in an emailed statement. "Safety standards and protocols were reinforced today as work paused across the ...

Enbridge has paused work near the incident area. 3:28 pm, Dec. 18, 2020 × A contractor working at a construction yard near Hill City associated with the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline project died Friday morning. "Enbridge has paused work in the area of a fatal accident involving a contractor at a construction yard this morning in Hill City, Minnesota," Enbridge spokesperson Juli Kellner said in an emailed statement. "Safety standards and protocols were reinforced today as work paused across the project for a safety standdown." Kellner declined to share further details, as the incident ...

In northern Minnesota’s Aitkin County, just north of the tiny town of Palisade, construction workers are clear-cutting a wide path through the forest near the Mississippi River, heavy equipment rumbling, to make way for the new Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project.  And Tania Aubid, a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, is there to try to stop them. "They want to ship the tar sands, toxic oil. … And when that pipeline breaches, it's going to go into the waterways here," she said.  Aubid has come to this place every day for more than a week, part of a group of people wh...

22 protesters arrested at Enbridge pipeline construction site Construction began two weeks ago on the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline.  December 15, 2020 — 12:19pm Text size Copy shortlink: Nearly two dozen protesters were arrested at an Enbridge Line 3 pipeline construction site in Aitkin County near the Mississippi River on Monday after they blocked equipment and refused orders to disperse, Sheriff Dan Guida said. Indigenous and environmental activists, who have been holding daily protests north of Palisade, Minn., prevented the extra...

Copy shortlink: PALISADE, MINN. – Drumming and singing rose from the snowy banks of the Mississippi River on Wednesday morning while heavy machinery beeped and revved in the distance. A dozen protesters prayed by the river as the state's largest construction project, the $2.6 billion Enbridge oil pipeline, continued its early stages in rural Aitkin County. "I'll be a great-grandmother soon, so that is what I'm standing for — for those generations that are coming," said Tania Aubid, a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and a local resident who carried a bullhor...