A Minnesota state commission provided a key approval Wednesday to a northern Minnesota oil pipeline expansion as chants of "shame on you" rang out in the downtown St. Paul meeting room.
"We are the people you represent," one of more than 100 protesters shouted as all five Public Utilities Commission members approved increasing the pipeline's capacity after a brief discussion of the pipeline issue with no chance for public testimony.
Pipeline opponents, mostly environmentalists and American Indian activists, stood in protest after PUC Chairwoman Beverly Heydinger announced that because written testimony already has been accepted and two public hearings were held, no public testimony would be accepted Wednesday.
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