Enbridge Line 3’s aquifer breaches: A summary

Last updated: Aug. 8, 2023

This post written in collaboration with Waadookawaad Amikwag

Sheet pilings laid out at a Line 3 worksite, June, 2021.

The following summarizes the causes and impacts of aquifer breaches resulting from construction of the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline. This post will be updated when new information becomes available.

Line 3 construction ended more than 19 months ago, Oct. 1, 2021. State regulators have been slow to announce all the environmental damage that occurred. They say they don’t release information until they finish their investigations.

A volunteer group called Wadookawaad Amikwag (Anishinaabemowin for “Those Who Help Beaver”) has been concerned about state agencies’ seeming lack of urgency and the lack of public information available. Volunteers are investigating on their own.

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