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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

News coverage of efforts vs. WI tar sand oil pipeline

More news from the front:
http://www.startribune.com/business/282425931.html

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-12/enbridge-pipeline-plan-challenged-by-environmentalists.html

http://www.mprnews.org/story/2014/11/12/enbridge-lawsuit-minnesota

Posted by James Rowen at 5:32 PM

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"A little fill here and there may seem to be nothing to become excited about. But one fill, though comparatively inconsequential, may lead to another, and another, and before long a great body may be eaten away until it may no longer exist. Our navigable waters are a precious natural heritage, once gone, they disappear forever," wrote the Wisconsin Supreme Court in its 1960 opinion resolving Hixon v. PSC and buttressing The Public Trust Doctrine, Article IX of the Wisconsin State Constitution.

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James Rowen is an independent writer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He worked as the senior Mayoral staffer in Madison and Milwaukee and for newspapers in both cities. This blog began on 2/2/ 2007.

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