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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.
Jun. 10—PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — A total of 179 people were arrested Monday, June 7, at a large-scale protest against Enbridge's Line 3 replacement project, according to a release from the Hubbard ...
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 ...
Some activists have been locking themselves inside the pipeline and taking other action to disrupt Line 3. Riding along with Jane Fonda as she joins Indigenous water protectors to protest the Line ...
The pipeline was planned by Dakota Access, LLC, a subsidiary of a Dallas, Texas corporation named Energy Transfer Partners, L.P. It begins in the Bakken oil fields in Northwest North Dakota and travels in a relatively straight line southeast, through South Dakota and Iowa, ending at the oil terminal near Patoka, Illinois.
Sep. 18—It's been just over two years since Mylene Vialard headed north to protest a major oil pipeline in Minnesota. Late last month, Vialard, a veteran activist and member of Boulder's Police ...
Tara Houska speaking with Mylene Vialard, a U.S. protester for the Line 3 pipeline who was arrested in 2021. Houska also fought against the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016 and lived in the Standing Rock encampment for six months. [5]