The Globe and Mail reports in its Monday edition that indigenous leaders in Minnesota
are ratcheting up their opposition
to Enbridge's Line 3
expansion project, as regulators
in that state and Nebraska face
heated debates over two proposed
Canadian pipelines that
would expand export capacity
from the oil sands.
The Globe's Shawn McCarthy writes that Enbridge last week began
construction of its Line
3 replacement program in Canada
and Wisconsin where it has
permits. Enbridge is confident it will
win approval from Minnesota next year. In Western Canada,
political leaders welcomed
the project as a boon to an economy and an important
addition to the industry's export
capacity.
However, native American
bands continue to oppose the
project in the state and, next
weekend, a group of indigenous
youth will begin a 360-kilometre
canoe excursion on the
upper Mississippi river to highlight
their concerns.
On Monday, Nebraska's public utilities
commission will commence
a week-long hearing into
TransCanada's planned
Keystone XL pipeline. With
the focus back on Keystone in the
state, five Nebraska tribes will
sign the Treaty Alliance against
Tar Sands Expansion, an anti-pipeline
manifesto.
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