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Walz has given more time to sheriffs concerned about Line 3 than water protectors, and other pipeline updates

April 26, 2021 healingmn Enbridge Line 3, Police violence Byhalia Pipeline, Gov. Tim Walz, Jennifer Granholm, Leighton Security Services, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, Public Safety Escrow Account

In this blog:

  • Walz listens more to law enforcement’s Line 3 concerns than the Stop Line 3 Coalition
  • Enbridge’s Public Safety Escrow Account seems to have co-opted law enforcement to serve as Enbridge’s private security
  • MN county sheriffs lobbied for friendly Line 3 Public Safety Escrow Account manager
  • U.S. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says there are better uses for pipelines than carrying tar sands oil
  • Pipeline private security firm gets lax oversight compared to water protector scrutiny
  • Internationally, mining projects use private security for blackmail, spying, threats against the opposition
  • New Byhalia pipeline route would cut through predominantly African American neighborhoods in Memphis
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Weekend Reads: EPA presses for wild rice water protection, LaDonna Brave Bull Allard walks on, and more

April 16, 2021 healingmn Dakota Access Pipeline, Enbridge Line 3 Dakota Land Recovery, Gov. Tim Walz, Honor the Earth, LaDonna Brave Heart Allard, Makoce Ikikcupi, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, MPCA, Public Safety Escrow Account, U.S Environmental Protection Agency
  • EPA presses MPCA to protect wild rice
  • LaDonna Brave Bull Allard walks on
  • PUC to hear Honor the Earth’s petition to investigate Enbridge’s pipeline data
  • Dakota ‘Village of Well Being’ still hoping to get building code waiver
  • Law enforcement bill to Enbridge for Line 3 protection reaches $500,000
  • Gov. Walz gets low to failing grades on protecting our climate
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Document provides new evidence of Line 3 workers assaulting women and girls

March 6, 2021March 11, 2021 healingmn corporate capture, Enbridge Line 3, Missing and murdered indigenous women Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, Public Safety Escrow Account, sex trafficking

MMIW rally today (Saturday) to put heat on Gov. Walz

A Thief River Falls non-profit providing emergency services to victims of domestic and sexual violence says its seen an increase in demand for help since construction began on the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline.

A document submitted to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) from the Violence Intervention Project (VIP) says local women and girls are getting verbally harassed by Line 3 workers, too.

This news comes on top of the recent report of a human trafficking sting in Northern Minnesota which resulted in the arrest of two Line 3 workers. One of those men was charged with soliciting sex with a minor.

Indigenous people warned state regulators that Line 3 would bring increased sex and drug trafficking to the area — and add to the existing epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives. State regulators and labor unions didn’t seem to take their concern very seriously at the time the permits were issued.

Indigenous people and allies are gathering Saturday, noon – 2 p.m. at the Governor’s residence, 1006 Summit Ave, St. Paul, to demand that Gov. Tim Walz revoke the Line 3 permits to protect Indigenous communities. Facebook Event Page here.

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Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office seeks nearly $200,000 reimbursement for its Line 3-related work

January 20, 2021January 20, 2021 healingmn Enbridge Line 3 Beltrami County Sheriff's Office, Public Safety Escrow Account

Expenses include everything from ballistic helmets, gas masks and batons to staff mobile field force training

The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission’s (PUC’s) Line 3 Route Permit required the company to establish a “Public Safety Escrow Account” to reimburse state and local law enforcement for additional public safety costs they incurred around Line 3’s construction.

The proposed Line 3 route crosses more than a dozen counties. The Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office is the first law enforcement agency to submit reimbursement requests. More are sure to follow.

Healing Minnesota Stories obtained copies of multiple invoices submitted by the Beltrami County Sheriff’s Office to the PUC; they total $189,000. Reimbursement requests fall in three main buckets: equipment purchases, staff training, and responses to Line 3 water protectors.

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