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The controversial Line 3, a pipeline expansion under construction in northern Minnesota that would transport one million barrels of tar sands per day, hasn’t begun operating yet, but is already causing harm. https://www.ourdailyplanet.com/story/line-3-pipeline-threatens-minnesota-waters-and-indigenous-wild-rice-harvests/