A summer of ramped-up opposition to the Line 3 oil pipeline kicked off Monday
| | | June 7, 2021 Be careful with the heat this week.The National Weather Service has issued a heat advisory for the Twin Cities metro area running through Thursday, as temperatures climb into the 90s. How to handle a heat wave: Safety tips and ways to stay coolTonight, meanwhile, look for increasing clouds, with lows in the upper 50s to mid-60s north, to about 70 in the south. Tomorrow will be mostly sunny with highs in the upper 80s to mid-90s – but cooler by Lake Superior.
The confrontation over the oil pipeline under construction across northern Minnesota is moving into a new phase , as hundreds of opponents are gathered along the route and construction crews are resuming work toward a scheduled fall completion of the line.
The project will replace the current Line 3 pipeline, which was built in the 1960s to carry oil from the tar sands of Alberta, Canada, to a refinery in Superior, Wis.
The number of known active COVID-19 cases in Minnesota has fallen below 2,000 for the first time in 14 months.
There are likely many more untested cases, but confirmed cases over any two week period has been a key metric in measuring the extent of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The state is reporting about 1,800 confirmed cases in the last two weeks. It was late April 2020 the last time the numbers were that low.
The average positivity rate has been hovering around 1.5 percent for nearly four days, also the lowest that number has been since April of 2020.
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