The Enbridge corporation paid millions for local law enforcement to protect and patrol its controversial Line 3 pipeline through a state-managed account, records show.
Enbridge controls the Line 3 pipeline used to transport tar sands from Canada to Lake Superior, but they face opposition from several indigenous-led camps, who want to protect their land.Enbridge -- a private Canadian energy corporation -- has paid more than $2.9 million for law enforcement and public safety organization expenses related to the company's controversialthrough a state-managed escrow account, according to documents obtained by ABC News through public records requests.
"If a state is openly in a financial relationship with a private actor, through an escrow account, where they are paying the police to protect their project, that should concern all of the public," Northern Minnesota-based tribal attorney and prominent Line 3 opponent Tara Houska told ABC News.Police respond to members of a pipeline opposition camp during a"direct action" against the Line 3 pipeline.
The thousand-mile-long Line 3 pipeline transports Canadian tar sands oil -- a high-emissions fossil fuel often described as the world's dirtiest oil -- through indigenous lands and waters, including the vulnerable headwaters of the Mississippi River. "The Commission appointed an independent Escrow Account Manager to evaluate all reimbursement requests and approve those requests that comply with the terms of the permit," PUC spokesperson Will Seuffert wrote.
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