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Help Stop the Line 3 Pipeline: Resources

December 12, 2020

Jackie Fawn

The Line 3 pipeline, now under construction in Minnesota,  encroaches on Indigenous land and creates a path to import Canadian oil.

Indigenous organizers in Northern Minnesota need our support to stop Enbridge’s Line 3 Tar Sands pipeline, which Enbridge intends to run right under the Mississippi River.  Minnesota Governor Tim Walz just granted the pipeline its final permit.

On December 16, 22 water protects were arrested for blocking pipeline construction—a blockade that began in early December, when two determined Water Protectors began tree sits in a frozen Minnesota forest targeted for levelling.  The resistance and number of arrests has only increased since then.  This video brings you there.

Tribal nations and local groups are seeking an injunction to stay construction while pending lawsuits are considered.  We have seen other pipeline struggles, but this one is even more fraught.  There are massive health risks involved in building Line 3 at the roaring height of the COVID-19 pandemic.  Minnesota is currently number one in the U.S. for the number of COVID-19 cases per day.  Nonetheless, Enbridge has established multiple worksites along the Line 3 route with temporary housing facilities, or man camps, for its workers.  It’s not only workers who are imperiled:  man camps at the best of times bring serious physical harm to the women of nearby Indigenous communities.

HERE ARE WAYS TO HELP:

Donate generously to Honor the Earth or directly to the frontline defense.

Sign the 350.org petition to Biden here.   Ask him to review the permits granted by Trump and immediately halt construction on this tar sands pipeline.

Track the following Facebook pages for breaking news:

Stop Line 3
Giniw Collective
Northfield Against Line 3

Background

The reasons for stopping this project are multiple.  From the Stop Line 3 website:

The existing Line 3 is an Enbridge pipeline that ships crude oil from Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin.  It spans northern Minnesota, crossing the Leech Lake and Fond du Lac reservations and the l855, 1854, and l842 treaty areas.   And it is a ticking time bomb.  It was built with defective steel in 1961, has had numerous ruptures and spills, and is running at half pressure because of severe corrosion.  Instead of cleaning up this liability, Enbridge wants to simply abandon it in the ground forever, and cut a brand new energy corridor through our best lakes, wetlands, and wild rice beds, and the heart of Ojibwe treaty territory.  They first proposed this new route for the Sandpiper pipeline in 2013, but years of fierce resistance in Minnesota drove them to cancel that project and buy a share of the Dakota Access pipeline instead.

At $7.5 billion, the proposed new Line 3 would be the largest project in Enbridge’s history and one of the largest crude oil pipelines in the world, carrying up to 915,000 barrels per day of one of the dirtiest fuel on earth, tar sands crude.  They call it a “replacement” but it is larger, with higher volume, in a new corridor.  First Nations, tribal governments, landowners, environmental groups, and communities across the Great Lakes have been fighting for 5 years now to stop this new corridor and #StopLine3.  We are here to protect the water and our future generations.

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