r/environment • u/newnemo • 19d ago
Minnesota Law Enforcement Shared Intelligence on Protest Organizers With Pipeline Company
https://theintercept.com/2021/08/27/enbridge-line-3-pipeline-police-training-intelligence/131
u/drevolut1on 19d ago
Seems we oughta share Minnesota Law Enforcement leadership information with the world wide web then. Only fair.
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u/linderlouwho 19d ago
Why were they sharing that, so the company could go murder them? What else is the use here?
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u/SadArchon 19d ago
Name a more iconic duo than industry and the police
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u/trisul-108 19d ago
“Local law enforcement has become the brutal arm of a Canadian corporation”
... and they are free to lie to the community about it.
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u/ShapingSyris 19d ago
What's most disgusting to me about all this is that they frame everything through the lens of "public safety." These officers are here for "public safety" which apparently means disrupting rights to protest and assemble. Apparently, their version of "public safety" is allowing for the development of an oil pipeline that will almost undoubtedly leak and create oil spills and ecological disasters. Not to mention the fact that this is being built at a time when we need to be rapidly decarbonizing, and thus it will contribute to the acceleration of already rapid climate change.
Whichever way you look at it, their version of "public safety" is perverse and myopic.
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u/newnemo 19d ago
ALEC has been working on anti-protest laws across the nation. The article below is one example but particular states have been active in outlawing all forms of protest.
A POWERFUL PETROCHEMICAL LOBBYING GROUP ADVANCED ANTI-PROTEST LEGISLATION IN THE MIDST OF THE PANDEMIC West Virginia is one of several states that have taken advantage of the pandemic to ease the construction of controversial oil and gas projects.
https://theintercept.com/2020/06/07/pipeline-petrochemical-lobbying-group-anti-protest-law/
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u/Archean_Party 19d ago
If you look at the spill into the Kalamazoo River that Enbridge allowed to happen, and which STILL has not been cleaned up, you wonder what the term "Public Safety" even means.
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u/june_plum 18d ago
Am I mistaken or is that the pipeline that went over a known archeological site against professional and indigenous protest?
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u/Archean_Party 18d ago
I'm not sure. Usually that sort of thing is handled with a re-route. But there are planty of offenses against Native Treaty Rights to go around. The cops are on the side of a foreign Multinational and against their own people and land. It's revolting.
Somewhere down the line that Tar Sands oil is going to spill at one of the dozens of Line3 river crossings and contaminate the Mississippi, and then all the people in the Twin Cities are going to get all mad about their drinking water. Until then, they'll ignore it all.
They've already spilled a bunch of drilling fluid. Incompetent fucks.
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u/silence7 19d ago
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u/abbbhjtt 19d ago
It’s fucked up for sure, but police frequently have similar contracts for security at football games, directing traffic outside big churches, and helping with special events (concerts, etc). That part in and of itself isn’t really as scandalous as this article makes it out to be. The sharing of intelligence in OP’s article is a lot more concerning imo.
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u/silence7 19d ago
The thing about special events is that any given event or location is usually a small fraction of the cops pay. It becomes incestuous when it's responsible for full-time pay for a large fraction of a department. That's what happened here.
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u/abbbhjtt 19d ago
Excellent point, and a much more likely possible solution than “cops shouldn’t be contracted” (which could be true but isn’t likely to happen).
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u/abcdefkit007 19d ago
theres a huge fucking difference between a petrochemical company and churches and sxhools gtfo w that bootlicking mentality
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u/abbbhjtt 19d ago
Lolll. I don’t lick boots. But I’d say institutionalized religion is very much as insidious as corporations. And, more importantly, “the man” was and always has been for hire. It’s fucked (as I said before) but not as novel or concerning than the fact that the law is sharing intelligence with corps. That’s a whole other level of concerning.
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u/abcdefkit007 19d ago
i agrree 100% on religion and sadly it has always been pay to win
its refreshing we can openly complain tho lol
edit what i meant was traffic control and crowd control are actual duties johhny law should be involved with not corporate collusion
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u/Enchanting_Smith 19d ago
"we're bad guys, and you cant do anything, heres an article painting it okay"
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u/woodiegutheryghost 19d ago
What an organization that is derived from strike breakers and slave catchers is only there to oppress the common citizen. I’m shocked I tell you.
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u/mandy009 19d ago
Our utility regulating commission also ignored my opposition comment from inclusion on the public register a few years back. That's when I knew influential people were railroading this through. They just rubber stamped it and said the public "approved".
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u/IntnsRed 19d ago