Omar calls on Biden to block pipeline being built in Minnesota

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Omar calls on Biden to block pipeline being built in Minnesota
By Rachel Frazin - 02/03/21 01:34 PM EST

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Wednesday urged President Biden to block the construction of a pipeline that would cross through her state to carry oil from Canada to Wisconsin after a court refused to temporarily block its construction.

Omar, in a letter to Biden, invoked both climate change and tribal rights issues.

“I joined millions of Americans celebrating your announcement to withdraw permits for the Keystone XL pipeline,” the congresswoman wrote. “I ask that you extend this scrutiny to another massive fossil fuel infrastructure project that will have a comparable impact on our planet: the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline currently being constructed across Minnesota.”

She noted that like the Keystone XL, for which Biden revoked a border-crossing permit on his first day in office, the Line 3 pipeline would carry tar sands oil, whose production is carbon-intensive.

“Under even the best-case scenarios for climate change, we cannot afford to build more fossil fuel infrastructure,” Omar wrote. “Wetlands can’t heal if the climate changes precipitation and temperatures. Indigenous treaty rights are meaningless if the areas are too polluted or unstable to hunt or fish or gather wild rice.”

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https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/537178-omar-calls-on-biden-to-block-pipeline-being-built-in-minnesota

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Being the good radical Moslum that she is,  it is not about saving the planet but about weakening America.