Politics & Government
Small Minneapolis Event Eyes Sen. Amy Klobuchar To Help Stop Line 3
Opponents of Enbridge's more than $7 billion project to replace Line 3 say it would add to the growing climate change problem and more.
June 11, 2021
About 100 people gathered at a Minneapolis park Thursday before marching to Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar’s office to promote shutting down reconstruction of an aging oil pipeline in northern Minnesota.
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The half-hour program at Gold Medal Park included singing and speeches by activists insisting that Klobuchar pursue at least a delay on the final segment of the Enbridge Energy Line 3 project. One prominent opponent, Winona LaDuke, founder of the Indigenous-based environmental group Honor the Earth, mentioned Klobuchar by first name on several occasions and said the senator should demand a more thorough environmental impact study for the project.
“You need to be the woman who stands up for the water, Amy,” LaDuke said.
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