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“Winona LaDuke, executive director of Native environmental group Honor the Earth, launched the “Love Water Not Oil” horse ride this week to draw attention to the group’s continued opposition to the Enbridge Sandpiper pipeline. It would carry fracked oil from North Dakota’s Bakken shale oil fields through the Sandy Lake and Rice Lake watersheds in northern Minnesota. The area is not only rich in recreational fishing facilities but it is also home to vast fields of wild rice or manoomim, a Native American staple.
The ride began at Rice Lake on Aug. 18 and concludes at Big Bear Landing on the White Lake Reservation on Rice Lake on Aug. 27, where there will be a powwow and gathering. During the ride, which anyone is free to join, the group plans to raise awareness of the pipeline and its impact on both surrounding Native communities and local landowners.”
– Eco Watch, Native Americans Launch ‘Love Water Not Oil’ Ride To Protest Fracking Pipeline.
“Winona LaDuke is circulating through the crowd gathered at Clyde’s Iron Works event center in Duluth, Minn., and spreading the message. Get over to the table and comment on the Canadian company, Enbridge, and plans to build, expand and replace four oil pipelines in northern Minnesota. While national media is focused on the Keystone XL pipeline debate, Enbridge has quietly proposed four pipeline projects through the North Country. If all are permitted, 4 million barrels a day will be swishing over and under and around Minnesota’s still pristine lakes and rivers. Where is it going? To refineries in Superior, Wisc.
Enbridge is responsible for the biggest land oil spill in United States history. The 2010 Kalamazoo disaster dumped from 840,000 to 1.5 million gallons of heavy crude from Canada’s Athabasca tar sands into the river system. It still has not been cleaned up.
The proposed Alberta Clipper (Line 67) expansion traverses the Red Lake, Leech Lake and Fond du Lac Reservations. The original Clipper line was built in 2009, despite First Nation opposition. The expansion would increase capacity by 40 percent to 25 million gallons per day. It has the potential to ship more tar sands oil than the Keystone XL, LaDuke says.
The proposed Sandpiper Route crosses eight state forests, three state wildlife management areas, and thirteen trout streams. It is designed to carry crude oil from the Bakken fields of North Dakota. The company is estimating a carrying capacity of 375,000 barrels per day, but the ‘ultimate” design capacity for the 30 inch pipe is 711,000 barrels per day, according to literature prepared by Honor the Earth.
The devil is in the details.“
– Huffington Post, Honor the Earth: Love Water, Not Oil.
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