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Environmental News Environmental groups, tribe file challenge to pipeline from Canada
Environmental News Environmental groups, tribe file challenge to pipeline from CanadaEnvironmental groups, tribe file challenge to pipeline from Canada
November 14, 2014
Environmental groups on Wednesday filed a legal challenge to the U.S. State Department’s approval of a major increase of Canadian tar sands oil flowing through Enbridge Energy pipelines into the U.S.
The groups, joined by the White Earth Ojibwe Nation, filed suit in federal district court in Minneapolis, alleging federal officials acted illegally and in collusion with pipeline industry executives when they approved a major expansion of oil moving across the border.
The State Department recently signed off on a plan by Enbridge to use the Canadian portion of the Alberta Clipper line to move oil south, transfer the oil to another, parallel pipeline — called Line 3 — for the actual border crossing, then transfer it back into Alberta Clipper once the oil is in the U.S.