Contractors worked on clearing a strip of land at the Line 3 work site in Aitkin County near Palisade, Minn., Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020. Protestors have been gathering for multiple days at a Line 3 work site near the Mississippi River in Aitkin County. A pair have even set up camps in the tops of trees on the work site. Indigenous activists claim that the pipeline construction violates Ojibwe treaties and threaten the river and environment. (Alex Kormann/Star Tribune via AP)