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Migizi Will Fly–A Grandmother’s Journey to Stop Line Three

Migizi Will Fly

A Grandmother’s Journey to Stop Line Three

  By Barbara Rhine

It was my first flight out into the wider world since Covid geared up, so I was a hot mess on May 22, 2021, when I began a five-day trip to Minnesota with an uphill task: Stop “Line Three”—the pipeline Enbridge Inc. has planned to transport Canadian tar sands, the dirtiest of oils, to Lake Superior for

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Perhaps this book is a bit too long; perhaps its elaborate plot contains some aspects that are hard to believe. Forget all that, because it is worth every bit of your attention anyhow. Billed as a thriller, and it does qualify, it is also an in-depth ...more
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I read this long and substantive work of fiction at the same time that I had to hurry through an unbelievably substantive work of nonfiction, and they both became overdue at the library before I finished either of them. And believe me, "Emperor of Gl ...more
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This nonfiction assessment about what should be done to meet the Climate Crisis is totally compelling! Written by a young white man (check out his picture--from this 80-year old's perspective he looks about 12), Harris starts from the premise that an ...more
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