Posted on 09/06/2021 4:32:35 AM PDT by Libloather
Minnesota U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar and her progressive congressional allies urged President Joe Biden on Friday to stop construction on Enbridge Energy’s Line 3 replacement, even as the project nears completion and the options to stop it dwindle.
Omar was joined by U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib, of Michigan, Cori Bush, of Missouri, and Ayanna Pressley, of Massachusetts, and Minnesota state Sen. Mary Kunesh, at a news conference in Minneapolis. The Democratic women called on Biden to revoke a federal water quality permit and stop the project, as the president did with the Keystone XL pipeline the day he took office.
Ahead of a planned weekend trip to northern Minnesota, where the pipeline is being upgraded, Omar and her allies echoed the arguments of Indigenous and environmental activists that the pipeline project would worsen climate change, violate Native American treaty rights, and risk spills in waters where Indigenous people hunt, fish and gather wild rice.
“We are here because the climate crisis is here,” Omar said. “The climate crisis is now. The climate crisis is happening and the last thing we need to do is allow the very criminals who created this crisis to build more fossil fuel infrastructure.”
The visit comes days after Omar sent a letter signed by nearly 50 state legislators and members of Congress to ask the Biden administration to meet with tribal leaders.
The heads of several Minnesota state agencies this week pushed back against several points in Omar’s letter, saying it exaggerated how much water Enbridge has pumped out of construction ditches amid the current drought and that the amount was actually well within approved limits. They also said claims in Omar’s letter that law enforcement used police dogs to intimidate protesters and fired “less-lethal” rubber bullets against demonstrators were false.
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Send her back to Somalia where she deserves the poverty and ignorance she clamors for.
This pipeline is being built parallel to an existing pipe that is old and becoming likely to fail.
Furthermore, it supplies petroleum products to CANADA, (via Michigan), and cannot be shut down without violating a trade agreement.
This is just grandstanding for the ignorant AGW rubes.
Why doesn’t some Skinny kill her for running her mouth?
Islamic women shouldn’t be working or telling men what to do.
Why doesn’t she go back to paradise (Somalia) and escape this oppressive, racist, fundamentally capitalist hellhole?
I have the feeling she’s a snake.
And she has a white, non Islamic boyfriend.
She’s asking for it…
They are communist insurgents. Nothing less. Nothing more.
It looks like the congressional Muslims want Americans even more dependent on their terrorist countries of origin.
Lie after lie, day after day, they are relentless; they never stop.
+1
Have a dentist stop her root canal halfway through.
Actually in places it follows a different route to make the crazyies somewhat happy.
How much are the Saudis paying her under the table? And why is it such a good idea to transship petroleum, produced under less environmentally stringent regulations, in leaking vessels from halfway around the world?
Yes, it does go to Canada, which has so very much oil, but blocked by geography and politicians from delivering it.
With her mind her family tree must have a lot of incest in it.
Sounds right to me.
She’s the one shilling for us to have to buy oil from her A-rab buddies in OPEC. She is nothing but a sleeper cell muzzlime snake in our midst. Get rid of her, by any means.
Translation: “Not til I gits MAH piece uh da PIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEE, muh’f***uuuuuhhhhh !!!!”
These bastards have 1 single goal. The destruction of the USA in any way they can, period.
If they cannot destroy us by fire, they will destroy us economically from within.
The enemies are within the gate and running the show.
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