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Groton Daily Independent
Friday, Oct. 27, 2017 ~ Vol. 25 - No. 110 ~ 25 of 48
student. Harrington said the now possibly endangered herring once were so plentiful they were sold for a penny apiece during the annual run.
Albea said it was local custom to smoke the sh right along the river banks, creating a scene likely never to be seen again.
Perhaps those memories are in the back of Albea’s mind as he relentlessly pursues the state’s underwa- ter wildlife and tries to keep the spotlight on preserving it. Maybe they are what make him so steadfastly loyal to his home shery.
With me riding in the back seat of his truck with Harrington riding shotgun on our way to an unforget- table late-October shing day on the Pamlico, Albea recounted his trip to Florida earlier in the week for a prominent lure company’s annual retreat.
He had quite an experience, including catching one of the Sunshine State’s most sought-after trophies, a snook, while he was there. But now he was back home, headed out for another day of shing with Har- rington, and he proclaimed eastern N.C. “a world-class shery.”
“I wouldn’t leave here to retire there,” Albea added as he steered the truck toward the Pamlico. ___
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PUC says Enbridge must disclose Line 3 oil spill projections
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Enbridge Energy must publicly disclose its projections for potential oil spills from its proposed Line 3 replacement pipeline across northern Minnesota, regulators decided Thursday.
The modeling data set includes the probability of large spills at seven water crossings. Enbridge submit- ted it to the Minnesota Department of Commerce for the project’s environmental impact statement but had the agency redact the data from the public version of the document, citing trade secrets and security reasons. Enbridge said the data could be used by “bad actors” intent on damaging the pipeline, thus threatening the nearby environment.
But the Public Utilities Commission voted 3-0, with two commissioners absent, to release the spill infor- mation. The commissioners agreed with an administrative law judge who determined that the data should be public and that the information is not likely to cause a security threat, the Star Tribune reported .
Calgary, Alberta-based Enbridge is seeking PUC permission to replace the portion of its aging Line 3 pipeline that crosses northern Minnesota. The pipeline, built in the 1960s, runs at just over half its original capacity for safety reasons. The pipeline begins in Alberta, clips a corner of North Dakota, then crosses Minnesota to Enbridge’s terminal in Superior, Wisconsin. Construction on the project, which would cost $7.5 billion overall, is already underway in Canada and Wisconsin.
The replacement would follow much of Line 3’s current corridor, although Enbridge wants to use a more southerly new route across much of northern Minnesota that would cross the Mississippi River headwaters and the pristine lake country where Ojibwe bands harvest wild rice and hold treaty rights.
Environmentalists and tribal groups are ghting the project, and tensions are rising.
The PUC canceled two public hearings that had been scheduled for Thursday in St. Cloud, citing “logistical and safety issues” after protesters cut short a hearing on the project in Duluth last week. And a judge in Clearwater County this month took the unusual step of allowing four climate change protesters involved in closing valves on two Enbridge pipelines near Clearbrook last year to use a “necessity defense” in their upcoming trials.
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Information from: Star Tribune, http://www.startribune.com