First Nation trying to stop $453M Manitoba-Minnesota power line project

WINNIPEG -- A Manitoba Indigenous community is taking the province to court over a $453-million power transmission project it says it wasn't properly consulted on before construction started last summer. The Sagkeeng First Nation is to argue in Winnipeg Court of Queen's Bench on Wednesday for a judicial review of the province's decision to give Manitoba Hydro a licence to build a 213-kilometre, 500-kilovolt line to Minnesota. "When our ancestors signed the treaties, they agreed to share their la