Enbridge

FACT CHECK: Obama Admin Wanted Line 3 Replacement

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CLAIM: Minnesota House Minority Leader Kurt Daudt claimed that the Obama administration had recommend that Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline be replaced.

RATING: TRUE

During President Obama’s second term, the Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement agreement with Enbridge that among other things required that Line 3 be replaced.

FACT CHECK

In the summer of 2016, Enbridge entered into a settlement agreement with Department of Justice and Environmental Protection Agency—both led by Obama appointees at the time—to resolve claims stemming from two pipeline spills six years earlier.

As part the agreement, Enbridge agreed to invest over $100 …

Greenpeace Ignores Line 3 Facts

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CLAIM: Greenpeace claimed in a tweet that the Enbridge Line 3 Replacement project “would endanger Indigenous rights & our climate.”

RATING: False

While a section of the Enbridge Line 3 Replacement pipeline does cross the Fond du Lac Band Reservation in northern Minnesota, it does not “endanger indigenous rights” as Greenpeace suggests.

Following consultations with Enbridge, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa agreed to allow the new Line 3 crude oil pipeline to cross its reservation along the route of the existing Line 3. In a Facebook post, Devin Dupuis, Chairman of the Fond du …