ST. PAUL, MN (Northern News Now) – Enbridge Energy will pay $11 million, including $1.45 million to the Fond du Lac Band, for water quality violations and aquifer breaches during construction of the Line 3 pipeline.
Those payments were announced Monday along with the results of enforcement investigations by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) and DNR about the aquifer breaches.
According to the MPCA, the investigation found that Enbridge violated a series of regulations and requirements including “discharging construction stormwater into wetlands and inadvertently releasing drilling mud into surface waters at 12 locations between June 8 and August 5, 2021.”
The DNR agreement includes several payments to address the aquifer breach just west of the Fond du Lac Reservation for restoration, mitigation and monitoring.
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