Group marches through Janesville to protest environmental risks from pipelines


Group marches through Janesville to protest environmental risks from pipelines


JANESVILLE -- Environmental activists often advocate for issues that might arise in the future but are not currently pressing.

Enbridge Energy officials say they have no plans for a new Wisconsin pipeline. Still, a crowd of about 25 people marched through downtown Janesville on Saturday to oppose the idea of a new pipeline.

Each day, a 42-inch pipe known as Line 61 carries 900,000 barrels of bitumen -- oil from the Canadian oil sands, or tar sands -- through Wisconsin and beneath multiple rivers and bodies of water....

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