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Line 3 Replacement PipelineUnited States

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The Line 3 Pipeline Replacement transports oil from Canada's tar sands. Photo: Lou Gold via Flickr (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

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Why this profile?

Why this profile?

Enbridge's Line 3 Pipeline Replacement is a threat to the environment. It has expanded access to dirty tar sands oil and crosses important ecosystems, including forests and wetlands in Minnesota and the Great Lakes.

What must happen

Bank financing for tar sands pipelines – either through project finance or the credit facilities that have been provided for Enbridge – directly supports tar sands expansion. Banks should avoid ​arranging ​or​ ​renew​ing financial services for ​Enbridge​ ​​and​ ​its​ ​subsidiaries​ ​until they ​cease the ​expansion of tar​ ​sands​ ​operations.
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Website https://www.enbridge.com/Line3ReplacementProgram.aspx

Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement Pipeline is a tar sands oil pipeline that covers more than 1,030 miles (1,660 kilometres) from Hardisty in Canada’s Alberta province, to the US city of Superior, Wisconsin. With a larger diameter than the pipeline it replaced, L3RP is capable of transporting 844,000 barrels of crude oil per day. Completed in October 2021, it was the largest project Enbridge had ever worked on and cost a reported USD 8.2 billion. Called a “replacement”, L3RP in fact forged a new route through pristine wetlands, the headwaters of the Mississippi River, Minnesota’s lake country and some of the world’s largest and most productive wild rice beds. Enbridge has left the old Line 3 pipeline to corrode in the ground.

Impacts

Impact on human rights and communities

The violation of Indigenous rights has been an inevitable consequence of the Line 3 Replacement Project. While the new pipeline does not cross any Indigenous reservations, it does jeopardise usufructuary rights agreements between bands of the Ojibwe people and the US government. These agreements concern the rights to hunt, fish, gather medicinal plants, harvest and cultivate wild rice, as well as the right to preserve sacred or culturally significant sites. The L3RP footprint crosses 180 such sites, including burial mounds, cemeteries and sacred sites. The Ojibwe people use Lake Minnewawa and Big Sandy Lake for fishing and consider both sacred, but both lakes are now under threat of oil spills. Similarly, 20 wild rice lakes are now at risk from L3RP spills. Minnesotan wild rice has traditionally held both economic and cultural importance for its localities.

Projects such as L3RP pose particular risks for Indigenous women. Environmental features that are intertwined with Indigenous women’s identity and culture are often impacted by fossil fuel construction work. Furthermore, temporary accommodation for male pipeline builders ("man camps") correlates with rises in abuse of Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people.

Enbridge’s abandonment of the old Line 3 Pipeline guarantees an ongoing threat to American Indian reservations at Leech Lake and Fond du Lac. The abandoned pipeline crosses 300 miles of northern Minnesota in total, which leaves landowners at financial and ecological risk as the pipeline disintegrates.

More than 150 North American First Nations and Tribes signed the Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion, opposing the use of the signatories’ Indigenous territories and coasts for new or expanded pipeline infrastructure projects that would facilitate the expansion of the tar sands.

Local drinking water supplies are jeopardised by L3RP, which crosses areas that are highly susceptible to groundwater contamination. It also crosses the Mississippi River, which provides drinking water to Minneapolis and several other cities, as well as the Great Lakes, which are home to approximately one fifth of the world’s fresh water. A 2017 Greenpeace report noted that oil spilled into bodies of water is difficult to fully clean up, which poses serious risks to human health and the environment. The potential leakage of diluted bitumen represents a particularly grave threat to water resources, especially because small leaks might go unnoticed by detection systems for months.

Increased militarisation accompanied the project’s construction. In January 2019, The Intercept reported that “law enforcement has engaged in a coordinated effort to identify potential anti-pipeline camps and monitor individual protesters, repeatedly turning for guidance to the North Dakota officials responsible for the militarised response at Standing Rock in 2016.” Construction resistance was subjected to heavy surveillance by both police and private security forces. The use of rubber bullets, tear gas, razor wire and water cannons in North Dakota is deeply troubling. The Trump Administration threatened pipeline protestors with 20-year jail sentences.


Impact on climate

The exacerbation of global heating is a major consequence of burning tar sands oil. Tar sands oil is 15% more carbon-intensive than conventional oil, due to the extra energy expended during the extraction, upgrading and refining processes. In 2012, climate scientist James Hansen explained that Canada’s tar sands contain twice the amount of carbon dioxide that humanity had so far emitted via our collective oil use. Enbridge’s new pipeline is wider than its predecessor and can transport approximately twice as much oil, indicating that the pipeline will accelerate the extraction of tar sands.


Impact on nature and environment

The potential for disastrous oil spills from this pipeline should not be underestimated. Enbridge’s chequered history of oil spills includes the largest inland oil spill in US history: In 2010, 20,082 barrels of diluted bitumen entered the Kalamazoo River under Enbridge’s watch. Furthermore, Enbridge and its joint ventures and subsidiaries caused an average of one “hazardous liquids incident” every 20 days between 2002 and 2018. Expanding the capacity of Line 3 has only increased the risk of such disasters in previously undisturbed ecosystems, from forests and wetlands, to delicate soils, aquifers, freshwater reserves and wild rice beds. According to Enbridge’s Environmental Impact Statement, the new pipeline route impacts upon 389 acres of wild rice in 17 different wild rice water bodies. This rice is a culturally significant staple of the Anishinaabe diet, which would make an oil spill in these areas particularly devastating.

Soil and groundwater contamination is likely to become a legacy of the Line 3 project. For example, toxic waste water is a product of the tar sands oil extraction process. This water is placed in storage ponds or underground wells, which pose a contamination risk to groundwater. Meanwhile, critics of Enbridge’s plan to abandon the old Line 3 pipeline also highlight soil and groundwater contamination. As the pipeline corrodes in the ground, residual oil, lubricants, treatment chemicals and pipeline coatings will escape.

The drainage of important wetlands could be a consequence of leaving the old Line 3 pipeline to disintegrate in the ground. This is because the pipeline may become a water conduit, which could drain and damage wetlands, as well as potentially flood farmland with contaminated water.

Increasing strains upon local water supplies is an inevitable consequence of the pipeline. In January 2021, for example, the breach of an aquifer during construction caused 24 million gallons of groundwater to escape. Minnesota’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) fined Enbridge USD 3.32 million for the breach, citing the loss of resources and resulting threat to nearby wetlands and lakes. The DNR also said Enbridge failed to notify them at the time of the incident. More generally, tar sands oil extraction and refinement requires triple the amount of fresh water in comparison to conventional oil.

Financiers

Enbridge constructed the Line 3 Pipeline Replacement using general corporate finance, rather than project-specific loans.

In October 2017, Wells Fargo led a syndicate of more than a dozen banks in renewing a USD 1.48 billion credit facility for Enbridge.

In its 2019 annual report, Enbridge announced it had terminated “certain” Canadian and US credit facilities that year, while securing a three-year credit facility with a syndicate of Japanese banks worth CAD 641 million, as well as a CAD 500 million five-year credit facility from an Asian bank. In November 2019, Barclays, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank and SMBC were involved in a USD 2 billion total bond issuance for Enbridge.

Toronto Dominion Bank was the lead agent on a CAD 2.97 billion loan to Enbridge that matured in March 2021. In February 2020, Mizuho Bank led on a USD 1 billion loan to Enbridge that matured in February 2022.

The financiers listed below have either provided credit facilities or underwritten bond issuances for Enbridge, thereby supporting L3RP. As of November 2020, Enbridge had access to credit facilities worth USD 12.87 billion.

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Map: Line 3 planned trajectory, Native American reservations and Protected Areas. 

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Canadian heavy crude increasingly priced to move from US Gulf Coast

Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline replacement project completed in Q4 WCS and Mars benchmarks facing sharp differentials Urals shipments to China, India, upend traditional crude flows
2022-06-27 | S&P Global
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Asian banks falling behind in implementation of UN Human Rights Principles, new BankTrack benchmark shows

New benchmark of 18 Asian banks shows human rights performance below the global average
2022-04-05 | Nijmegen | BankTrack
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Investors ask banks to rethink funding fossil fuel projects, including Line 3

Banks are under pressure from investors to match corporate practices with their environment and social statements * Updated
2022-03-31 | IndianCountryToday
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More groundwater released by Line 3 pipeline aquifer ruptures: regulators

2022-03-22 | Global News
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Enbridge says aggressive climate policies shortening life of its pipelines

Questions, including in recent regulatory filings, have been raised over how long the newly built Line 3 will be economically viable.
2021-12-05 | Star Tribune
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Oil flows through Line 3, but cleanup work remains at site of ruptured aquifer

Breach threatens a rare biodiversity hot spot in Clearwater County
2021-10-04 | StarTribune
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As extreme weather rages, RBC extends "sustainability" loan to Enbridge, actively expanding gas and tar sands pipelines

Consortium of banks finance pipeline builder in the lead up to COP 26 climate summit
2021-09-24 | Toronto, Canada | Giniw Collective, Stand.earth
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New report: Indigenous resistance disrupts billions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually

2021-09-01 | Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International
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Line 3 Indigenous water protectors meet with U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders over human rights violation concerns

2021-08-18 | Giniw Collective, Honour the Earth, WECAN
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Opponents on Enbridge Line 3 project take case to Minnesota Supreme Court

Environmental groups and tribes are petitioning the high court to overturn an appellate court decision favoring the PUC and Enbridge.
2021-07-19 | Star Tribune
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Susan Rice ordered to sell $2.7M stake in oil pipeline company after project moves forward

President Biden’s adviser Susan Rice is being ordered to sell a $2.7 million stake in the oil pipeline company Enbridge — after the Biden administration decided to allow the firm’s Line 3 pipeline project.
2021-07-16 | New York Post
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Canada is burning, and our banks are fanning the flames

Canada’s big banks are financing the climate crisis through their fossil fuel lending, argues Richard Brooks
2021-07-13 | Responsible Investor
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New wave of anti-protest laws may infringe on religious freedoms for Indigenous people

2021-07-12 | The Conversation
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Dear bank CEO, you are cordially invited to defund this pipeline

Anti-oil activists are turning their focus on fossil fuel funding, aiming to stop the flow of money for good.
2021-07-01 | Bloomberg Green
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Ahead of shareholder vote, activists stage global actions urging Japanese megabank MUFG to end climate-destructive financing

2021-06-23 | Tokyo | BankTrack, 350.org Japan, Asian Peoples’ Movement on Debt and Development (APMDD), Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network
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Enbridge Wins Minnesota Court Ruling on Oil Pipeline Permit

2021-06-14 | Bloomberg Green
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Police Make Mass Arrests at Protest Against Oil Pipeline

Late Monday, police arrested activists and appeared to use a crowd-dispelling sonic device at the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota, which would carry oil across sensitive waterways and tribal lands.
2021-06-07 | New York Times
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Enbridge's Line 3 oil pipeline enters critical month in June

2021-05-28 | Star Tribune
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Revealed: HSBC’s dirtiest deals will emit more pollution than Brazil or Canada

As HSBC prepares for its AGM on 28 May, new research reveals that a selection of HSBC fossil fuel financial transactions over the last five years will emit 523 million tonnes of CO2 every year for decades to come
2021-05-27 | Market Forces
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These Activists are Disrupting the Dollars of the Line 3 Pipeline

There is a steady drumbeat of resistance that stands behind the frontlines of Line 3.
2021-04-16 | Rainforest Action Network
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New report details the gendered and racial impacts of the fossil fuel industry in North America and complicit financial institutions

2021-04-14 | San Francisco Bay Area, California | WECAN
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Banking on Climate Chaos 2021: World’s 60 largest banks have poured USD 3.8 trillion into fossil fuels since Paris Agreement

Even amidst the global economic downturn, fossil fuel financing numbers were higher in 2020 than 2016
2021-03-24 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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Enbridge’s “sustainable” credit: tar sands and rights violations

2021-03-10 | Reclaim Finance
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Minnesota shelter reports assaults, harassment linked to Line 3 pipeline workers

Opponents of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline have for years raised concerns that the project would lead to an increase in human trafficking and violence in northern Minnesota, especially against Native American women.
2021-03-09 | Energy News Network
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Enbridge raises Line 3 replacement cost estimate by $1.1 billion

2021-02-12 | Reuters
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Demonstrators protest banks’ funding fossil fuels

2021-01-29 | Radio Canada International
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'We Should All Be Water Protectors': Ilhan Omar Visits #StopLine3 Organizers Day After Activists Block Enbridge Worksites

"We owe it to future generations, to the Indigenous communities we've signed treaties with, and to every living being on this planet to stop building fossil fuel infrastructure."
2021-01-28 | Common Dreams
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Dear President Biden, An Indigenous Perspective on Your Inauguration

2021-01-20 | Shannon Biggs on Movement Rights
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Biden revokes Keystone XL, Indigenous leaders celebrate and push for stronger action

2021-01-20 | Bemidji, United States | Indigenous Environmental Network
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Ojibwe bands ask appeals court to stop Enbridge Line 3 construction

The Red Lake and White Earth bands filed suit, the second such filing in a week by pipeline opponents.
2020-12-30 | Star Tribune
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Not Just Another Pipeline

The expansion of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline is a breathtaking betrayal of Minnesota’s Indigenous communities — and the environment.
2020-12-28 | Louise Erdrich in the New York Times
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The battle to stop Line 3 is heating up on the ground and across the US

Activists around the US join national day of action to end financing for tar sands pipelines like Enbridge's Line 3
2020-12-14 | Maaike Beenes – BankTrack
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Five years since the Paris Agreement, are banks' 2050 pledges enough to reign in fossil fuel finance?

How the year's 'Paris-alignment' moves stack up against the measures needed to tackle the climate crisis
2020-12-12 | BankTrack
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Regulators deny First Nations' request to delay Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline replacement in Minnesota

Further delay would have showed 'irreparable harm to these workers,' commissioner says
2020-12-04 | Calgary | CBC
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Walz Administration Ignores Line 3 Threat to Clean Water, Climate, and Communities

MPCA approves water crossing permit for the pipeline despite risks to waterways, wetlands, Tribes
2020-11-12 | Gabby Brown, Sierra Club, Sierra Club
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State regulators approve Line 3 permits; move pipeline closer to construction

2020-11-12 | MPR News
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Barclays, HSBC and Credit Suisse among worst offenders on oil sands finance

ShareAction says Barclays has participated in 11 loan and bond deals to oil sands companies since its net zero announcement in March
2020-10-29 | London | ShareAction
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A call to action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End climate-destructive financing now

2020-10-20
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Indigenous Women Leaders warn global financial companies to stop support for tar sands oil

With key financial decision points looming on the Keystone XL, Line 3, and Trans Mountain pipelines, an open letter calls for policies respecting Indigenous rights and ruling out tar sands
2020-10-19 | First Peoples Worldwide, Giniw Collective, Honor the Earth, Indigenous Climate Action, Indigenous Environmental Network, Tiny House Warriors, Unist
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Principles for Responsible Banking no obstacle to finance climate destruction

Twenty PRB banks provided over US$1.25 trillion in fossil fuel financing since Paris Agreement
2020-09-22 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network
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Line 3 project leaping toward construction

2020-07-25 | Duluth News Tribute
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Indigenous Women’s Divestment Delegation pushes Deutsche Bank for fossil fuel divestment amidst pipeline shutdowns, a global pandemic and the climate crisis

2020-07-16 | San Francisco Bay Area | Divest Invest Protect, WECAN
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Banking on Climate Change – Fossil Fuel Finance Report Card 2020

New report reveals global banks funneled USD 2.7 trillion into fossil fuels Since Paris Climate Agreement, with financing on the rise each year 
2020-03-18 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Indigenous Environmental Network, Oil Change International, Rainforest Action Network, Reclaim Finance, Sierra Club
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New student group organizes against Line 3 pipeline

2020-02-24 | Minnesota Daily
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With New Equator Principles, Banks Fail to Act on Climate or Indigenous Rights

Singapore meeting approves ‘business as usual’ new Equator Principles
2019-11-21 | Nijmegen | BankTrack, Partners
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Another Oil Pipeline Blow As Court Rules Against Enbridge Line 3

2019-06-03 | Oilprice.com
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Who’s Banking Enbridge?

[updated 18 May 2019]
2019-05-18 | Rainforest Action Network
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Big Banks Just Flunked Their Own Test on Climate, Indigenous Rights

2018-11-03 | Truthout.org
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Indigenous, environmental and climate justice groups rally outside Equator Principles meeting

Despite global standards, world's biggest banks continue to fund environmentally damaging projects that disregard Indigenous communities’ rights to Free, Prior and Informed Consent
2018-10-17 | Washington, D.C. | BankTrack, Greenpeace USA, Honor the Earth, Market Forces, Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, WECAN
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JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo and Crédit Agricole warned not to finance tar sands pipeline companies

Bank clients Enbridge and TransCanada have failed to secure Free, Prior and Informed Consent of Indigenous communities
2018-10-09 | San Francisco, USA | Rainforest Action Network
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How Enbridge’s Bankers Fund a Tar Sands Pipeline

2018-09-18 | Sightline Institute
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Bemidji Line 3 pipeline protest indicates renewed opposition after regulatory approval

2018-08-29 | MPR news
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Greenpeace block Barclays’ HQ over dirty oil pipeline funding

Greenpeace UK volunteers take over the main entrance to Barclays HQ in London to protest the bank’s refusal to stop funding tar sands pipelines
2018-07-19 | London
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AGM briefing: Switzerland's per capita financing of fossil fuels worst in Europe, thanks to Credit Suisse and UBS

2018-04-25 | BankTrack, Greenpeace
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Louisiana and Minnesota Introduce Anti-Protest Bills Amid Fights Over Bayou Bridge and Enbridge Pipelines

2018-03-31 | The Intercept
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Enbridge's Line 3 expansion is all risk, no reward

2018-03-04 | CBC News
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Big banks complicit in massive tar sands destruction and pollution through hundreds of billions in financing

2017-11-02 | Rainforest Action Network
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Banks warned of tar sands pipelines investment risks in new report

2017-10-31 | Greenpeace, Oil Change International
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PUC: Enbridge must release previously classified data on Line 3 pipeline

2017-10-26 | brainerddispatch.com
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Enbridge ordered to publicly disclose the probability of spills along proposed new pipeline

2017-10-26 | startribune.com
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PUC: Enbridge must release spill data

2017-10-26 | duluthnewstribune.com
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PUC says Enbridge must disclose Line3 oil spill projections

2017-10-26 | apnewsarchive.com
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In St. Cloud, Line 3 oil pipeline hearings canceled over safety concerns

2017-10-25 | mprnews.org
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Minnesotans deserve an open and transparent process on Line 3

2017-10-25 | advfn.com
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Enbridge : Chippewa bands launch own review of Enbridge's proposed Line 3 replacement

2017-10-14 | 4-traders.com
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Minnesota tribes to hold their own Line 3 pipeline meetings

2017-10-13 | wctrib.com
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Erin Roth: Why we need to replace Enbridge Line 3

2017-10-12 | twincities.com
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Enbridge argues Line 3 oil pipeline needed for Minnesota, region

2017-10-11 | mprnews.org
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Enbridge Defends Line 3 Pipeline Replacement Plan

2017-10-11 | minnesota.cbslocal.com
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Minnesota public hearings begin for Enbridge's $6.5 billion oil pipe expansion

2017-09-26 | Reuters
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Greenpeace Investor Briefing: Problematic Pipelines

Investor risk from bank financing of tar sands pipelines
2017-09-20 | Greenpeace
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Minnesota Deals New Blow To Enbridge Pipeline Project

2017-09-12 | Oilprice.com
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Northern Minnesotans concerned over proposed Line 3 replacement pipeline

2017-06-10 | Herald Review
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Business Forum: Unanswered questions abound concerning Enbridge Energy Pipeline 3

2017-06-10 | StarTribune
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Oil & Water: Minnesota pipeline proposal could increase oil flows through St. Croix River watershed

2017-06-08 | St. Croix 360
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Public comment begins for Enbridge Line 3 replacement

2017-05-15 | Business North
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Citizens file to intervene in Enbridge Line 3 case

2017-05-11 | Duluth News Tribune
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A look at Enbridge’s Line 3 Replacement project

2017-04-17 | Mesabi Daily News
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Saskatchewan oil spill reveals problem with leak-detecting data

2017-01-30 | The Globe and Mail
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Minnesota Faces its Own Pipeline Battle: Enbridge Line 3

2017-01-06 | Healing Minnesota Stories
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Groups question Enbridge's plans for proposed oil pipeline project

2016-09-26 | Duluth | MPR News
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2022-03-30 00:00:00

Investor Statement on Line 3, Oil Sands Projects, and FPIC

Other document
2022-03-30 00:00:00 | Investors & Indigenous Peoples Working Group
2020-03-02 00:00:00

Enbridge 2019 annual report

Company document
2020-03-02 00:00:00 | Enbridge
2021-04-14 00:00:00

Gendered and Racial Impacts of the Fossil Fuel Industry in North America and Complicit Financial Institutions

A Call to Action for the Health of our Communities and Nature in the Climate Crisis
NGO document
2021-04-14 00:00:00 | WECAN
2020-03-11 00:00:00

2019 Annual Report

Company document
2020-03-11 00:00:00 | Enbridge
2020-12-08 00:00:00

Who's banking Line 3 and Keystone XL

Tar sands pipelines being rammed through in a pandemic
NGO document
2020-12-08 00:00:00 | Rainforest Action Network
2016-11-01 00:00:00

Enbridge's Line 3

What you need to know
NGO document
2016-11-01 00:00:00 | Honour the Earth
2020-10-19 00:00:00

Letter from Coalition of Indigenous women and organizations to a group of 70 banks on Tar sands financing

Correspondence
2020-10-19 00:00:00 | Coalition of Indigenous women and organizations
2020-11-12 00:00:00

Enbridge Line 3 Final permits and certification

Other document
2020-11-12 00:00:00 | Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
2015-08-07 00:00:00

Treaty Rights and Oil Pipelines

What You Need To Know
NGO document
2015-08-07 00:00:00 | Honour the Earth
2020-11-03 00:00:00

Memo from the Minnesota Environmental Partnership to Governors Walz, Flanagan and Sutton

NGO document
2020-11-03 00:00:00 | Minnesota Environmental Partnership
2020-10-31 00:00:00

High Risk, Low Reward

An overview of European banks' position on oil sands
NGO document
2020-10-31 00:00:00 | ShareAction
2020-10-20 00:00:00

A Call to Action on the Principles for Responsible Banking: End Climate-Destructive Financing Now

Joint civil society statement
BankTrack publication
2020-10-20 00:00:00 | BankTrack, Rainforest Action Network, and others
2018-09-09 00:00:00

How Enbridge's bankers fund a tar sands pipeline

NGO document
2018-09-09 00:00:00 | Sightline Institute
2018-04-25 00:00:00

Swiss Banks in the End of the Fossil Fuel Age

BankTrack publication
2018-04-25 00:00:00 | Greenpeace, BankTrack
2017-09-25 00:00:00

Letter from Treaty Alliance against Tar Sands Expansion, Rainforest Action Network et al to JPMorgan Chase on Ending finance for tar sands oil

Correspondence
2017-09-25 00:00:00 | Treaty Alliance against Tar Sands Expansion, Rainforest Action Network et al
2017-09-11 00:00:00

Minnesota Commerce Department expert analysis and recommendation on the certificate of need for the Line 3 pipeline project

Other document
2017-09-11 00:00:00 | Minnesota Commerce Department
2017-09-21 00:00:00

Letter from Honor the Earth, Rainforest Action Network et al to Wells Fargo et al on Line 3 Pipeline replacement project

Correspondence
2017-09-21 00:00:00 | Honor the Earth, Rainforest Action Network et al
2017-09-20 00:00:00

Problematic pipelines: Investor risk from bank financing of tar sands pipelines

NGO document
2017-09-20 00:00:00 | Greenpeace

Line 3 route

2017-06-20
Line 3 replacement route

PBS NewsHour: The next big oil pipeline battle is brewing over Line 3 in Minnesota

2022-09-03 19:59:42

#StopLine3 National Day of Action

2020-12-16 09:00:56

What is Line 3?

2019-09-05 12:01:51

Stop Enbridge's Minnesota Tar Sands Pipeline | Sierra Club Video

2019-06-04 13:43:26

Line 3 Pipeline: Largest Inland Oil Spill in US History

2017-06-13 16:50:18

Mazaska Talks campaign website

Treaty Alliance Against Tar Sands Expansion campaign website

Stop Line 3

Honour the Earth campaign website

Global Energy Monitor Wiki: Enbridge Line 3 Oil Pipeline

Updates

2021

2021-10-01 00:00:00 | Line 3 Pipeline Replacement Project complete

The Line 3 Pipeline Replacement became operational today, transporting Canadian tar sands oil along a new route through northern Minnesota. The pipeline’s manager Enbridge now needs to address the construction mess it has left behind.

2020

2020-12-01 00:00:00 | Construction on Line 3 replacement begins

Having obtained a construction stormwater permit from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency yesterday, Enbridge has begun construction on the Line 3 Pipeline Replacement. The independent Public Utilities Commission had been asked by the Red Lake and White Earth bands of Chippewa to rescind its approval of the project pending ongoing litigation, but this was rejected.

2020-11-12 00:00:00 | Minnesota Pollution Control Agency approves Line 3 permits

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and the Department of Natural Resources have approved a number of key permits for L3RP, including those for water crossing, capped-air emissions and wastewater. This is expected to trigger the approval of remaining federal permits by the US Army Corps of Engineers. The approval of the final remaining construction permit – for stormwater – is expected within one month. Construction will likely begin immediately, despite several ongoing lawsuits that are attempting to prevent it.

2020-10-14 00:00:00 | Enbridge completes Line 3’s North Dakota stretch

Enbridge has announced the completion of a small, 12-mile section of its Line 3 crude oil pipeline replacement project in North Dakota. This leaves only the Minnesota stretch to be built, which is currently embroiled in legal challenges by state officials and others.

2020-02-03 00:00:00 | Minnesota utility regulators grant key Line 3 approvals

Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has voted three to one on three key approvals for the Line 3 Pipeline Replacement Project: a revised environmental review, a certificate of need and a route permit. The PUC originally voted to approve the controversial project in June 2018.

2019

2019-06-03 00:00:00 | Court rules against Enbridge Line 3

The Minnesota State Court of Appeals has ruled that the Line 3 Pipeline Replacement’s environmental assessment is inadequate. This ruling is a reversal of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission’s approval of the L3RP environmental impact statement. The appellate court found the Commission’s approval to be mistaken and Enbridge’s assessment too vague in regards to potential Lake Superior oil spills.

2019-05-01 00:00:00 | Canadian segment of L3RP complete

Enbridges’ Line 3 Pipeline Replacement Project has stepped closer to completion with the announcement that the Canadian portion, which cost CAD 5.3 billion, has been constructed.

2018

2018-12-21 00:00:00 | Dayton appeals L3RP approval

Minnesota’s Governor Mark Dayton has appealed a decision regarding the Line 3 Pipeline made by the state’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC). The Minnesota Department of Commerce claims the PUC’s approval of the oil pipeline replacement was not adequately introduced or evaluated; the project’s long-range oil demand forecasts have been called into question by Dayon’s administration.

2018-06-28 00:00:00 | PUC approves L3RP certificate of need and preferred route

Minnesota’s Public Utilities Commission (PUC) unanimously granted Enbridge’s Line 3 replacement project its certificate of need today. A PUC majority also voted in favour of the new pipeline’s proposed route, which avoids Indigenous reservations but crosses untouched landscapes and Ojibwe treaty lands.

2016

2016-11-29 00:00:00 | Canadian federal government approves of L3RP

Today the Canadian federal government approved the construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 Pipeline project. Construction is slated to commence in Canada in mid-2017.

2016-04-25 00:00:00 | NEB recommends L3RP for approval

Canada’s National Energy Board has ruled in favour of the Line 3 Pipeline Replacement Project, after deciding it is in the country’s public interest. The NEB will now recommend that the federal Governor in Council approves the project.

2014

2014-11-06 00:00:00 | Enbridge files L3RP regulatory application with NEB

Calgary’s Enbridge pipeline company has applied to Canada’s National Energy Board for regulatory approval of the Line 3 Pipeline Replacement Project.

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