First Week Of December 2020, After Years Of Sustained Native Opposition And After 6 Years Of Regulatory

First week of December 2020, after years of sustained Native opposition and after 6 years of regulatory review and legal challenges, Alberta-based oil giant Enbridge began building the multi-billion-dollar Line 3 fossil fuel pipeline expansion in northern Minnesota, as the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted to ignore appeals from multiple Indigenous groups. In late December, during blizzards and frigid cold, protest actions continue to be held each day.

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Nearly two dozen protestors were arrested at an Enbridge Line 3 pipeline construction site in Aitkin County near the Mississippi River on Monday [14 December 2020] after they blocked equipment and refused orders to disperse […].

Indigenous and environmental activists, who have been holding daily protests north of Palisade, Minn., prevented the extraction of a protestor who had been camped in a tree for 10 days. […] Activists vowed to continue to stand in the way of pipeline construction, which started two weeks ago. […]

“They’re standing up to say it’s time the state actually listen to Indigenous voices […] instead of caving to the interests of a Canadian oil giant.” Calgary-based Enbridge said in an earlier statement: “We recognize the rights of individuals and groups to express their views legally and peacefully. We don’t tolerate illegal activities of any kind including trespassing, vandalism, or other mischief, and Enbridge will seek to prosecute those individuals to the fullest extent of the law.” […]

Work on the $2.6 billion pipeline began on Dec. 1 after Enbridge received its final permit following six years of regulatory review. Opponents say the pipeline, which will deliver oil from the tar sands of Alberta to a terminal in Superior, Wis., will contribute to climate change and expose new parts of the state to the risk of oil spills. […]

Indigenous organizer Winona LaDuke, who built a ceremonial lodge on the pipeline route where it is set to cross the Mississippi that had halted construction at that specific site, said “we will expect more resistance.” […]

About 2,000 people are on the job across the 340-mile pipeline route, and another 2,000 are expected to join them by the end of the year [2020].

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Text excerpt from: Brooks Johnson. “22 protestors arrested at Enrbidge pipeline construction site.” Minneapolis Star Tribune. 15 December 2020.

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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. […] Construction has ramped up quickly on Line 3 since Enbridge Energy received its final state and federal permits late last month — and so have the protests of activists determined to stop work on the contentious project […]. Several environmental and tribal groups, along with the Red Lake and White Earth Nations and the Minnesota Department of Commerce, have filed suit to try to block it. Groups are expected to soon ask the state appeals court to put a pause on construction until those suits can be heard. […] [T]he new corridor passes through treaty land that Ojibwe tribes ceded to the federal government in the late 1800s — land which still maintains important historic and cultural significance.

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Text excerpt from: Dan Kraker. “Line 3 construction barrels ahead, despite efforts to block it.” MPR News. 15 December 2020.

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Other context:

After Line 3 brings the fuel from Alberta to Duluth-Superior, the fuel is then carried by Enbridge’s Line 5 pipeline from Duluth-Superior to Sarnia (Ontario) north of Detroit.

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Friendly October reminder not to put Spock or other Jewish characters in costumes with horns

u know as long as we are on the subject of holocaust remembrance day... everyone go read that smithsonian mag article on anne frank again 🙃

I know this should be old news, but I somehow still sometimes find myself utterly dumbfounded by how Far from Christian teachings so many alleged Christians can get.

My friend has to get her insurance through a Christian insurance group and when she signed up she had to agree that if she gets pregnant out of wedlock, she’ll be booted and lose all benefits she’s paid for. She had to agree to these terms to receive her healthcare.

These people.....They’re so far from their own god that they imagine themselves casting out a single pregnant person and think “that’s what the Bible would want. That’s what Jesus taught.”

Like I said. I’m dumbfounded. They don’t realize that Jesus would be horrified?? That he would take in an abandoned pregnant person in and protect them??? That that’s his entire thing???

A saying my mom always used growing up when people acted this way comes to mind, which is, “they lack imagination.”

They really can’t even for a moment think the way Jesus is supposed to have. It’s astounding.

There is no love! There is no love.