PIPELINES, POWER LINES, AND ORGANIC FARMS

PIPELINES, POWER LINES, AND ORGANIC FARMS

The routing and siting of MPL’s MinnCan crude oil pipeline project provides a case study to assist in protecting organic farms from energy infrastructure. Affidavits and a highly detailed organic management plan established that the Gardens of Eagan had had fifteen years of careful soil building to develop fertility and explicit plans for the use of non-crop producing areas of the farm for water drainage and beneficial habitat for birds, insects and mammals.

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