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The over-budget will be paid exclusively by Hennepin County taxpayers. Hennepin County’s 2023 population was 1,320,307. With a $1,000,000,000 debt that would be about $1,000 of “cost-sharing” owed by each man, woman and child in the county. SWLRT SNAFU: Southwest Light Rail Train—Situation Normal All “Fouled” Up Skybridge pedestrian walkway to Bryn Mawr commuter station More
Under the deal, Enbridge will pay more than $61 million a year into the trust fund until Oct. 1, 2041. That's 20 years after the pipeline started operating. The company estimated decommissioning the new pipeline will cost $1.25 billion.
Enbridge’s pipelines have leaked many times. The Line 3 oil spill in 1991 at Grand Rapids, Minnesota, remains the largest inland oil spill in US history. What’s more, the deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions associated with Line 3 — and the other numerous projects like it — are centrally implicated in intensifying climate change. Then there’s the impact of industrial encroachment on Indigenous communities — particularly women, who experience violence at twice the rate of other American women, in most cases at the hands of non-Indigenous men.
"What I can’t help but ask is, why on earth would Glencore be allowed to do business here in Minnesota? Especially when thousands of acres of wetlands and billions of gallons of fresh clean water are on the line?"
Divestment News, Journalist Shireen Abu Aklleh, BDS Divestment Action in Minnesota, and more... Palestine/Israel and the U.S.: Updates by Lucia Wilkes Smith, WAMM Middle East Committee Volume 40 Number 4 Women Against Military Madness Summer II 2022 The Pillsbury Boycott Is Suspended There is some good news!In June the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) announced More
Throughout the construction of Line 3, Enbridge has acted irresponsibly and illegally, created disasters, and covered them up.
Call Gov. Tim Walz at 651-201-3400 Stop Line 3!
The last chance to warn watershed deciders against permitting a Spring Road upscale ridge-top homes project in Eden Prairie is coming up. See details at the end of this article.
"Riley Creek has experienced a noticeable decrease of fish and plant life according to water protector Friends of Fredrick-Miller Spring. The Spring’s generosity rushes down Purgatory Ridge and is arguably the last fast-flowing, easy access, good-tasting major spring water in the Mississippi watershed of southern Minnesota."
"Even the best training in the world cannot teach police, who are licensed to kill and deployed to enforce a racist system, not to be racist."
COVID-19 “really highlights the intersection of social determinants and historical health issues that make people more vulnerable,” Allen said.
