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The Line 3 pipeline was built by the Lakehead Pipeline Company (now Enbridge) in the 1960s. It was the source of the Line 3 oil spill in Grand Rapids, Minnesota, the worst inland oil spill in U.S. history, which spilled 1.7 million gallons of crude into a tributary of the Mississippi River. [15]
Mar. 19—GRAND FORKS — Gina Peltier was arrested in Minnesota's Clearwater County while praying on a bridge in protest of the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline replacement project. That was last August.
The Wisconsin DNR announced Thursday it approved Enbridge's permit, surely setting off backlash from environmental groups.
The Line 3 pipeline was the origin of a 1.3 million gallon oil spill in Argyle in 1973. [14] On March 3, 1991, the Line 3 pipeline ruptured in a wetland near Grand Rapids, Minnesota, spilling 1.7 million gallons of crude oil into the Prairie River, a tributary of the Mississippi River. It was the largest inland oil spill in the history of the ...
The pipeline has since been replaced and is now known as Line 78. Cleanup cost the company $1.2 billion. In Wisconsin, Enbridge failed to report a spill that occurred in 2019 near Fort Atkinson.
The Giniw Collective often uses their bodies to stop or slow construction as a form of protest, including crawling inside the pipeline, squatting in trees, and tying themselves to machines. Houska has also engaged politicians directly, including meetings with the Biden administration to push for the federal government to intervene and suspend ...
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MADISON - Line 5 has become a hot button topic for Wisconsin. Enbridge Energy, a Canadian oil company, is working to reroute the controversial pipeline around the Bad River Band of Lake Superior ...