Imagine that one day you wake up and find out that a pipeline company wants to run a thirty inch pipe with 375,000 barrels of oil per day through your burial grounds, sacred sites, medicinal plant harvesting areas, and, a mile from your biggest wild rice harvesting areas. And, they didn’t even bother to mention it. That’s pretty much what Mille lacs found out. Then the Mille Lacs band was also probably a bit surprised, to find that Enbridge had hired Randy Jorgensen, an attorney who specializes in Indian fighting in this millennium, and was a lead counsel for landowners opposing the Mille Lacs band in the landmark Supreme Court case. Jorgenson, argued ( on behalf of his new client Enbridge) at the Public Utilities Commission, that tribal rights and interests should not be considered by the PUC. It’s a rather small world in Indian fighting apparently, and an expensive one.
Posted on: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 02:30:21 +0000
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