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Enbridge's Line 3 oil pipeline under construction near the intersection of Hohensee Road and West Moorhead Road in Carlton County in January. (Clint Austin / 2021 file / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Crime and Courts

2 arrests in human trafficking sting were Line 3 workers

The sun sets over Superior Bay, the end of Minnesota Point, and Lake Superior near Duluth. 2017 file / News Tribune
Energy and Mining

Minnesota Pollution Control Agency considers lifting some water standards

The Minnesota Power / Allete building in downtown Duluth. file / News Tribune
Energy and Mining

Minnesota Power dual fuel interruptions common during cold snap

The Minnesota Power / Allete building in downtown Duluth. file / News Tribune
Energy and Mining

Minnesota Power will seek rate increase in November

Plans for PolyMet include building dams to increase the storage capacity of tailings basins. One would be built in the distance to raise the basin on the right to the level of the area on the left. (File / News Tribune)
Energy and Mining

Court dismisses Fond du Lac's federal challenge of PolyMet water permit

Enbridge's Line 3 oil pipeline under construction near the intersection of Hohensee Road and West Moorhead Road in Carlton County in January 2021. (Clint Austin / File / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

Enbridge Line 3 construction costs increase by $1.1 billion

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Part of U.S. Steel's Minntac facility in Mountain Iron. (2015 file / News Tribune)
Energy and Mining

Court: Regulators were correct in applying drinking-water standards to groundwater in Minntac permit

Hibbing Taconite's pellet processing plant from the air. (2002 file / News Tribune)
Energy and Mining

Cliffs says it has plan to save Hibbing Taconite without land swap. But it won't say how

Protests over the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline grabbed the world's attention in late 2016. File photo / Forum News Service
Energy and Mining

Celebrities, activists urge Biden to shut down Dakota Access Pipeline

Enbridge's Line 3 oil pipeline under construction near the intersection of Hohensee Road and West Moorhead Road in Carlton County in January 2021. (Clint Austin / File / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

Court denies another request to halt Line 3 construction

A pipeline worker watches a protest from a Line 3 worksite near Reponen Road near Sawyer on Jan. 22. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

Court of Appeals denies tribes' request to pause Line 3 permits

Trucks haul mined taconite to the crushers at Cliffs in Hibbing. (file photo / News Tribune)
Energy and Mining

Cliffs CEO asks for Walz's help to save Hibbing Taconite

Ron Hein holds a copy of “Taconite, New Life for Minnesota's Iron Range: The History of Erie Mining Company.” Hein is one of the main authors and organizers of the book and related school curriculum project. (Steve Kuchera / skuchera@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

Mining history project shares oral histories with 7 libraries, cultural centers in Duluth, Iron Range

Keith Peterson of Britt, Minnesota is a member of the Iron Range Solar Co-op. He installed these solar panels on his garage about three years ago. “It took all of the hard work off my shoulders,” he said of the co-op. (Submitted by Keith Peterson)
Energy and Mining

Solar co-op heads for Northland

Activists opposed to Line 3, who call themselves Water Protectors, block an entrance to a worksite where the pipeline crosses Reponen Road near Sawyer last Friday afternoon. The pipeline crosses tribal lands belonging to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

As crews build Line 3 through Fond du Lac Reservation, a protest camp takes shape

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack speaks to the delegates on the second night of the 2012 Democratic National Convention at Time Warner Cable Arena, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2012 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Harry E. Walker / TNS)
Energy and Mining

Key cabinet nominees have opposed mining near Boundary Waters, but Biden’s been silent

U.S. Rep. Pete Stauber, R-Hermantown, speaks at the University of Wisconsin-Superior’s Lake Superior Research Institute in September. (2020 file / News Tribune)
Energy and Mining

Stauber bill would prevent president from barring mining on federal land

The Arrowhead Regional Special Operations Urban Search and Rescue team was called to respond to a potential trench rescue emergency in Carlton County at this trench on the Line 3 pipeline project near the intersection of Hohensee Road and West Moorhead Road in Carlton County on Friday evening. A pipeline protestor climbed into the trench and exited the perilous area on his own after rescue personnel explained the hazards he was facing. (Clint Austin / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

Line 3 protester rescued from collapsing trench

An aerial view looking southeast at Cleveland-Cliffs’ Milepost 7 tailings basin. The basin holds 40 years' worth of tailings behind dams and on top of a 2,100-acre footprint. An expansion project planned by Cliffs, would expand that footprint by 850 acres — a 40% increase in the basin’s surface area. The darker areas visible in the basin are shadows of cumulus clouds. (Clint Austin / 2020 file / caustin@duluthnews.com)
Energy and Mining

Does Northshore Mining's tailings basin expansion require environmental review?

Two people chained themselves together Thursday, Jan. 14, inside a pipeline to protest Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline replacement project near Backus. Submitted Photo
Energy and Mining

Protesters chain themselves together to protest Enbridge's Line 3

Iron ore pellets (Getty Images)
Energy and Mining

Grand Rapids-based Tacora Resources buys Norwegian iron ore mine