December 8, 2017: In yet another setback for Enbridge, the company behind the proposed Line 3 tar sands pipeline, the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ruled today that the final environmental impact statement (FEIS) on the pipeline is inadequate. The Department of Commerce must answer narrow questions about karst topography and clarify shortcomings in the analysis.
Minnesotans and several state agencies had raised serious concerns about the FEIS, which included numerous calculation errors, used Enbridge’s own data without any independent verification, and failed to adequately explore alternatives to this pipeline expansion or any no-build scenario. The Commission sidestepped these issues.
Read the full press release here.