Welcome to a grassroots effort to monitor and report on construction damage from Enbridge's Line 3 tar sands pipeline Get involved with on-the-ground efforts to monitor construction. Line 3 is an oil sands pipeline owned and operated since 1968 by Enbridge, a Canadian energy transportation company. It spans northern Minnesota, crossing the Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations and the l855, 1854, and l842 treaty areas. The replacement pipeline will restore the historical operating capabilities of Line 3, and is generally expected to serve the same markets, and transport the same product mix, as the current Line 3. The replacement of Line 3 is a safety- and maintenance-driven project. A number of recent Canadian pipeline projects have taken even longer than that: sometimes due to delays, complexity and uncertainty in Canada’s regulatory approval process. Line 3 pipeline map Image: Enbridge Inc. Minnesota regulators granted a stack of important permits and approvals Thursday for Enbridge Inc.’s planned Line 3 pipeline replacement across northern Minnesota, setting the long-delayed $2.6 billion project on the road toward beginning construction soon. It runs from Hardisty, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin. SUBMIT OBSERVATIONS The multibillion-dollar Line 3 Replacement Program is the largest project in Enbridge history. VOLUNTEER Learn about the danger Line 3 poses to Minnesota's environment and people. The existing Line 3 is an Enbridge pipeline that ships crude oil from Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin. Interested individuals also can access information about related pipeline incidents going … Upon replacement, the average annual capacity of Line 3 will be 760 kbpd. The infographic below shows a map and timeline for the Enbridge Line 3 replacement project. It is a mixed-service line, meaning it carries a variety of crude oils. It is a violation of Texas law to … Line 3 supporters point out that society's demand for oil is still huge, and that pipelines are safer for transporting crude than trains or trucks. LEARN MORE Volunteers: Ready to submit your observations? And it is a ticking time bomb. Similar in size and purpose to the recently defeated Keystone XL pipeline, Enbridge’s Line 3 oil pipeline is proposed to transport tar sands oil over 1000 miles, from Hardisty, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin, through the heart of Anishinaabe territory and some of the best lakes and wild rice beds in the world. With a cost of $7.5 billion, Line 3 is the largest project in Enbridge’s history, and would be one of the largest crude oil pipelines in the continent, carrying up to 760,000 barrels per day. Over 90 percent of the pipeline’s right-of-way is on private land. The new Line 3 will comprise the newest and most advanced pipeline technology—and provide much needed incremental capacity to support Canadian crude oil production growth, and … Major pipelines can typically take several years to build. Download PDF. Summary. Enbridge calls this project a “replacement” because they already have a Line 3 pipeline in their mainline corridor, which transects Northern Minnesota with 6 pipelines in it. Note: GIS maps may not be used for pipeline location purposes in lieu of calling an official notification center prior to excavating. The existing Line 3 pipeline is 48 years old and is one of the six crude oil pipelines that make up the Enbridge oil mainline system. The National Pipeline Mapping System’s (NPMS) Public Map Viewer includes interactive maps showing the locations of hazardous liquid and gas transmission pipelines, and Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) plants nationwide. Click below. 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