On Tuesday members of the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission rescinded a September decision to grant a specific route permit for a gas line near Pipestone National Monument, a site sacred to tribal nations.
Regulators moved the process forward by requiring Magellan Pipeline Company to coordinate with tribal nations on completing an archaeological study along two possible, separate routes that put distance between the pipeline and the pipestone quarries.
The pipeline that closed in 2022 cuts diagonally across the monument. That line pumped gas between Sioux Falls, S.D., and Marshall, a part of a large network of pipelines which run between Texas and Minnesota…