The Financial Post reports in its Tuesday, July 14, edition that native and environmental groups are fighting a pair of proposed Enbridge pipelines that would cross lake-dotted country in northern Minnesota. A Canadian Press dispatch to the Post reports that the Sandpiper and Line 3 Replacement projects would take the same route through much of the state -- carrying North Dakota light oil and oil sands crude to Superior, Wisc. CP says opponents are using a variety of legal and bureaucratic means to stymie the pipelines. Both are slated to start in 2017. For Ojibwe communities the big concern is over wild rice beds, says Honor the Earth director Winona LaDuke. Not only is wild rice a sacred crop to her people, but it is a major source of income, says Ms. LaDuke. The $2.6-billion Sandpiper pipeline is already a year behind schedule because the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission last fall decided to review the need for the project and its route separately, rather than at the same time. The commission granted Enbridge a certificate of need for Sandpiper in early June, a move that Ms. LaDuke says is tantamount to a "declaration of war." Groups are planning to challenge the certificate as soon as they're able.