{"id":25479,"date":"2021-07-09T06:52:11","date_gmt":"2021-07-09T11:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/canadian-pipeline-giant-sues-biden\/"},"modified":"2021-07-09T06:52:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-09T11:52:11","slug":"canadian-pipeline-giant-sues-biden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unitedresourceconnection.org\/cannon-ball-nd-58528\/canadian-pipeline-giant-sues-biden\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadian pipeline giant sues Biden"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PARK RAPIDS, Minn. \u2014 As Native oil pipeline foes stepped up pressure for U.S. President Joe Biden to cancel Enbridge Energy Inc.\u2019s Line 3 construction here, backers of another pipeline project announced July 2, that they are suing him for cancelling theirs. You guessed it: TC Energy Corp. is filing a complaint over its failed Keystone XL.<\/p>\n

Both oil industry giants are private Canadian infrastructure builders aiming to boost shipments of tar-sands crude oil, or diluted bitumen (dilbit), from the fracking fields of Alberta Province through the U.S. heartland to Texas Gulf Coast refineries and export facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cTC Energy will be seeking to recover more than U.S. $15 billion in damages that it has suffered as a result of the U.S. government\u2019s breach of its NAFTA obligations,\u201d the corporation said in filing a notice of intent to initiate a claim under the terms if the North American Free Trade Agreement.<\/p>\n

The 1994 agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico allows businesses to pursue economic damage payments from signatory governments whose actions contribute to companies\u2019 failures to realize anticipated profits. In this case, the action was Biden\u2019s fulfillment on his first day in office of his campaign pledge to revoke KXL\u2019s Presidential Permit.<\/p>\n

The pledge responded to demands of Lakota and other Native nations and grassroots constituents who objected to being left out of consultations required under Indian treaty and environmental law obligations. Treaty law violations are also at the root of Anishinaabe tribes\u2019 lawsuits and water protectors\u2019 Summer of Resistance to Line 3.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis pipeline is a violent assault on Indigenous people and their treaty rights \u2014 and a climate catastrophe that threatens all of us,\u201d Rainforest Action Network Executive Director Ginger Cassidy proclaimed as she risked arrest July 1 for helping halt construction in a civil disobedience action.<\/p>\n

\u201cClimate chaos is already causing real world suffering, and massive new fossil fuel expansion like this is completely reckless. Biden and the banks financing this project must withdraw support for Line 3 immediately,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

Oglala Lakota matriarch Mama Julz, founder of Mothers against Meth, locked herself to heavy equipment in the civil disobedience, declaring, \u201cWe\u2019re not going to stop this pipeline by prayer only. Prayer and action go hand in hand!\u201d<\/p>\n

Dozens of water protectors \u201cflowed over a Line 3 construction site\u201d that day, according to a media release from Giniw Collective. The action was among the most recent of many over the past half-year since Enbridge Energy Inc. began drilling operations at 20 rivers and 800 wetlands at Mississippi Headwaters that are crucial to the Native wild-rice economy in Anishinaabe treaty territory.<\/p>\n

Sheriff\u2019s deputies in Hubbard County have blockaded Giniw Collective\u2019s Native-led resistance camp, Namewag, restricting residents\u2019 freedom of movement, they said. \u201cA dozen people were arrested in their driveway\u201d in the last week of June, according to its media release.<\/p>\n

Sheriff Cory Aukes explained that deputies posted a notice at the camp entrance on June 28 warning that vehicular travel on the trail to it was in violation of the county Land Use Ordinance and that the trail would eventually be barricaded. All but two of the approximately 40 vehicles at the camp remained the next day, Aukes said.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are allowed to travel on foot or to access the property off of Big Buck Dr., which is a public roadway,\u201d the sheriff noted in a public statement.<\/p>\n

\u201cActions continue against Line 3, which has yet to receive any comment from the White House,\u201d Giniw Collective stated. \u201cWhile the federal and state administrations pledge action on violence against Native women, there are nearly 5,000 employees in northern Minnesota building Line 3, most of whom are from out of state.<\/p>\n

\u201cA second sex trafficking ring that included Enbridge employees was busted on Monday,\u201d the collective warned, as its adherents hoisted a banner saying, \u201cViolence against Mother Earth is violence against women: No man camps.\u201d<\/p>\n

(Contact Talli Nauman at talli.nauman@gmail.net<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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PARK RAPIDS, Minn. \u2014 As Native oil pipeline foes stepped up pressure for U.S. President Joe Biden to cancel Enbridge Energy Inc.\u2019s Line 3 construction here, backers of another pipeline project announced July 2, that they are suing him for cancelling theirs. You guessed it: TC Energy Corp. is filing <\/p>\n

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