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Environmental Groups Protest Pipeline
News Articles | Northland News Center | June 30, 2009
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The Alberta Clipper pipeline would transport crude oil from the oil sands of Alberta Canada to Superior Wisconsin.
Getting oil from the sands is a difficult process that involves shooting steam into the ground and allowing the oil to bubble to the surface.
Several environmental groups and Native American tribe members have voiced opposition to the practice. In Duluth on Tuesday they voiced their displeasure and outlined their plans to battle the pipeline.
Dennis Banks said, “We must say no, we have to say no to that kind of activity to that kind of action, wrongful action, bad action!”
Currently the coalition is lobbying U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to dismiss a permit that would allow the pipeline to cross the Canadian border.
Mary Marrow with the Minnesota Center for Environmental Advocacy not only opposes the pipeline but also questions the need for the project to be built in the first place.
“The environmental impacts and our concerns over climate change and reducing greenhouse gas emissions are in direct conflict with this so no I don’t believe there’s demand and I think the Federal Energy Administration recent forecasts support that.”
The pipeline would run through the Leech Lake and the Fond Du Lac Reservations.
Both Tribal governments have signed off on the plan, drawing the ire of some tribe members.
Elizabeth Sherman said “I’m so disheartened by the Leech Lake Tribal Council signing the ten-million dollar agreement, at what expense there is no measurement of our land our resources, our water.”
The tribe members are currently mounting litigation against the tribal councils, mean while Enbridge Energy is moving forward in the permitting process,
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