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U.S. NEWS Tuesday 10 december 2019

Police officers detain demonstrators during a protest in Santiago,
Chile, Saturday, Dec. 7, 2019.
Associated Press
U.N.D.P. says Latin

America is wealthier This June 29, 2018 photo shows tanks at the Enbridge Energy terminal in Superior, Wis.

Associated Press
but unequal No major impacts on Lake Superior

CLAUDIA TORRENS "Other manifestations of in- found from Line 3 pipeline
Associated Press equality are more evident,
NEW YORK (AP) — Latin like segregation, lack of so-
America has significantly cial mobility, not having a By STEVE KARNOWSKI nal in Superior, Wisconsin. tial for flowing downstream
reduced poverty over the voice in politics." Associated Press The replacement would into Lake Superior, than
last two decades. So why The UNDP's report, titled MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — An double the capacity of the other sites it could have
is there generalized discon- "Beyond income, beyond updated environmental existing line, which was built modeled.
tent, prompting thousands averages, beyond today: review released by a state in the 1960s and is increas- A public comment period
of protesters to take to the Inequalities in human de- agency Monday found no ingly subject to cracking on the update runs through
streets? velopment in the 21st cen- serious threat to Lake Supe- and corrosion. Environmen- Jan. 16. Interested parties
A report from the U.N. De- tury," highlights that coun- rior if crude oil ever leaked tal and tribal groups have will also be allowed to com-
velopment Programme tries can't focus on eco- from a new pipeline to re- been fighting the project ment in person before an
released Monday con- nomic activity at any cost, place Enbridge Energy's because of the potential administrative law judge in
cluded it's due to a new but rather should concen- aging Line 3 across north- for spills in the Mississippi Riv- Duluth on Dec. 19.
kind of inequality, no lon- trate on inclusive growth. ern Minnesota. er headwaters region — an Officials with Enbridge,
ger distinguished as much For example, countries with State regulators ordered important wild rice growing based in Calgary, Alberta,
by income, but rather by very high human develop- the update after the Min- area — and other pristine welcomed the report. They
the lack of equity, environ- ment indices (HDI) have nesota Court of Appeals in waters, and because the told reporters that if the
mental development, and subscription to broadband June declared that an ear- oil would contribute to cli- Public Utilities Commission
gaps in technology and services growing at a rate lier review, issued in Febru- mate change. deems the update ad-
education. 15 times faster than that ary 2018, was inadequate The update issued by the equate, they hope to start
"Inequality in a context of of countries with low HDI because it failed to specifi- state Department of Com- construction of the Min-
economic growth, as there readings. cally address the potential merce modeled the poten- nesota and North Dakota
had been, generated aspi- Further, children of pro- impacts of a spill into the tial impacts of a spill where segments of the replace-
rations that haven't been fessionals in the U.S. hear Lake Superior watershed. the replacement pipeline ment pipeline in mid-2020.
satisfied," Luis López-Calva, three times as many words Line 3 carries Canadian would cross Little Otter Construction would then
the UNDP's director for Lat- as those in families receiv- crude from Alberta and Creek. The department take seven to nine months.
in America and the Carib- ing welfare benefits, which clips a corner of North Da- said a spill there would be The upgraded Canadian
bean, said in an interview affects performance on ex- kota on its way across Min- more likely to enter the St. and Wisconsin segments
with the Associated Press. ams later in life. q nesota to Enbridge's termi- Louis River, with the poten- are already in service.q