An appeals court is ruling on a lawsuit filed in White Earth Tribal Court attempting to stop the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources from issuing a permit to Enbridge Energy to pump water from trenches dug to lay the pipe for the Line 3 oil pipeline. Read the full story by MPR News.
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