From: Katie Engelmann
It feels like ages ago when our young family stood in a hotel conference room in northern Minnesota preparing to comment on a proposed pipeline slated to cut through the county where we lived. The pipeline would carry tar-sands oil from Alberta, Canada, across northern Minnesota through rivers, lakes, and wetlands to a terminal in Superior, Wis. State agency personnel, county commissioners, and the consultants in the room were all prepared to rubber stamp the project, as wa...