Construction of an oil pipeline deep in America's heartland has become one of the most contentious environmental battles in the country.
Enbridge controls the Line 3 pipeline used to transport tar sands from Canada to Lake Superior, but they face opposition from several indigenous-led camps, who want to protect their land.Construction of an oil pipeline deep in America's heartland has become one of the most contentious environmental battles in the country.
"Seeing the expansion of Line 3 tar sands into sensitive wetlands while there is a massive drought is really jarring and it should be for any person who is worried about the climate," Tara Houska, a tribal attorney who has fought the project for years and co-founded a Line 3 opposition group, told ABC News.A member of a pipeline opposition camp is arrested in front of a pipeline facility during a blockade of a pipeline facility.
However, many critics refer to the project as an expansion. More than one third of the new Line 3 follows an entirely new route and the new, wider pipe will roughly double the operating capacity of the old version, according to state documents. "I am appalled by the lack of action on something like this," Houska said."You can't be the climate president when you're allowing through one of the largest tar sands infrastructure projects in North America. That's his climate legacy," she said.
Line 3 could emit between 35 and 193 million tons of CO2 annually, according to the project's environmental impact statement -- the latter being the equivalent of 45 new coal-fired power plants coming online or 38 million cars being added to the road, according to multiple independent scientists.
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