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September 30, 2021

Land Defenders Vow to Continue Struggle as Enbridge Announces Oil Will Start Flowing Through Line 3
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In Minnesota, Canadian pipeline company Enbridge said construction on
the contested Line 3 crude oil pipeline is complete and oil will start
flowing as early as Friday. Indigenous leaders and land and water
defenders, who have been resisting Line 3 for years, often putting their
own bodies on the line, vowed to continue the fight against the
pipeline. Line 3 is set to carry over half a million barrels of tar
sands every day, threatening local waters and lands, and doubling
Minnesota's greenhouse gas emissions.

Meanwhile, environmental activists celebrated the cancellation of the
fracked gas Penn East pipeline earlier this week. Local residents,
officials and advocates in New Jersey and Pennsylvania led a years-long
battle against the project.


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