'Huge Legal Win': Court Stops Police From Blockading Line 3 Protester Camp

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One attorney described the blockade as "an outrageous abuse of law enforcement authority serving the interests of the Enbridge corporation against its environmental opponents."

In a development progressives called a "huge legal win in the fight against Line 3," a Minnesota court on Friday ordered police in Hubbard County to stop impeding access to the Giniw Collective's camp, where anti-pipeline activists have been organizing opposition to Enbridge's multibillion-dollar tar sands project.

"Just because the Hubbard County Sheriff and Hubbard County Attorney are opposed to Native people protecting our homelands should not mean they can engage in violent, unlawful repression without consequence."
—Tara Houska, Giniw Collective

The ruling comes less than a week after Tara Houska, an Indigenous rights attorney and founder of the Giniw Collective, and Winona LaDuke, an environmental justice advocate and co-founder of Honor the Earth, filed for a temporary restraining order against Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes, and the local land commissioner in northern Minnesota.


https://www.commondreams.org/news/2021/07/23/huge-legal-win-court-stops-police-blockading-line-3-protester-camp

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1. Hey Enbridge, after you get

every last drop of oil out of the Kalamazoo river, we will talk. As for your completely safe line 5, post a $4 billion bond to protect and clean up the Great Lakes if it screws up. We will know how safe it is when we see the cost to insure this "safe" project.

[mopinko]

2. did they ever get that cleaned up?

i have a friend that moved there several yrs ago because he felt it was a great place to raise kids.
that leak happened about 2 yrs after that.

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3. I don't think so.

It was heavy sand crude that sank down into the river bed.

[mopinko]

4. i remember them saying they were never going to get it all.