Opponents of Enbridge's Line 3 construction mount last stand at river's edge
While legal challenges continue, protesters aim to stand in the way
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December 10, 2020
Star Tribune
Aitkin County Sheriff Dan Guida politely asked Joshua Roy and the other protestors to move over to the side for a few moments while the Line 3 workers flattened a chunk of land nearby.
PALISADE, MINN. – Drumming and singing rose from the snowy banks of the Mississippi River on Wednesday morning while heavy machinery beeped and revved in the distance. A dozen protesters prayed by the river as the state's largest construction project, the $2.6 billion Enbridge oil pipeline, continued its early stages in rural Aitkin County.
"I'll be a great-grandmother soon, so that is what I'm standing for - for those generations that are coming," said Tania Aubid, a member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe and a local resident who carried a bullhorn and chiding pipeline workers for being there.
Aubid's voice carried through the trees and under the power lines near where the pipeline - a replacement for Enbridge's aging and deteriorating Line 3 - is being constructed as workers carried on, their vests and equipment spread out and visible to the horizon west of the river.
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