Water Protectors In The News
Water Protectors In The News
THIS MUST STOP. HELP!
On June 6, the day before escalated actions were planned at different Enbridge Line 3 pipeline work sites, Honor the Earth organized a press conference at the Shell River to further explain why thousands of people were in northern Minnesota to oppose the new tar sands pipeline. ---MORE---
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Reposted From https://www.janefonda.com/2021/03/this-must-stop-help/
By:JANE FONDA
In the face of a worsening climate crisis, with scientists telling us we must not permit any new fossil fuel development and begin a managed phase out of existing fossil fuel infrastructure, a Canadian Oil company, Enbridge, is pushing ahead with the largest project in its history. Known as Line 3, it’s a 1,097 mile crude oil pipeline extending from the tar sands of Edmonton, Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin.
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Episode 82: Activists spring to fight Line 3
In this episode, we talk to Winona LaDuke, executive director of Honor the Earth, and University student and MN350 intern Karly Beaumont about their efforts to stop the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline.
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The next big oil pipeline battle is brewing over Line 3 in Minnesota
Mar 6, 2021 5:32 PM EST
On his first day in office, president Biden signed an executive order to stop construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. But now, many people in the Great Lakes region are asking the Administration to halt a different pipeline project they believe poses an even greater threat to indigenous communities and local waterways. And as NewsHour Weekend’s Ivette Feliciano reports, experts and climate advocates say it’s time to stop oil pipeline projects in the U.S. once and for all.
Environmental activism is also a feminist issue as sex trafficking is exposed along the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota.
The Oil Pipeline Battle No One Is Talking About
Published on February 3, 2021, 1:38pm
By Samir Ferdowsi
Activists in Minnesota are camping out in the cold and chaining themselves to trucks to stop the expansion of Line 3.
“Wild rice is at the center of our people’s culture,” Houska said. “It’s something that’s so important to Anishinaabe folks that it’s the only grain listed in any treaty in the United States, because it’s that important.”
Photo By Sarah LittleRedFeather
Activists are hoping President Biden will step in and shut down new additions to Line 3. After all, he just canceled construction permits for the Keystone XL pipeline in January. Rep. Ilhan Omar visited activist leaders on Friday. Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has said that governors should not act unilaterally to permit or stop projects.
Over 50 Water Protectors in MN March Onto Line 3 Pipeline Easement to Stop Construction
Published on Tuesday, February 02, 2021 by Common Dreams
Water protectors protested at a construction site for the Line 3 pipeline near Cloquet, Minnesota on February 2, 2021. (Photo: Line 3 Media Collective)
"We are endangering future generations," said Charles King, who locked himself to construction equipment, "and that's got to stop." #StopLine3
Water Protectors Target Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline with Nonviolent Direct Actions
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HEADLINE FEB 01, 2021
In northern Minnesota, Congressmember Ilhan Omar met with Indigenous leaders this weekend who are fighting to stop construction on Enbridge's …
Enbridge Line 3 Protesters Demonstrate In Superior
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Opponents of Enbridge Energy's Line 3 pipeline project are hoping President Joe Biden shuts that work down, too. Biden's decision to stop work on ...
Once united in support of Joe Biden, environmentalists and unions clash over pipelines - Duluth News Tribune
Pressure Mounts Against Line 3 Pipeline Project
Earth Island Journal
FIONA MCLEOD January 27, 2021
“There is no need for this pipeline as the world reduces oil consumption in the face of increasing climate change,”
Winona LaDuke, executive director Honor The Earth...
Water protectors at a demonstration in Minnesota last December. Line 3 is a 1,097-mile pipeline transporting diluted tar sands from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. The project will expand the pipeline into important wetlands and Indigenous territories. Photo courtesy of Honor the Earth.
Line 3 pipeline protesters gather at Backus trailhead
Pine and Lakes Echo Journal, January 27, 2021
Winona LaDuke, of Honor the Earth, was at the event and spoke ahead of the move following speeches by Ryan Hunt, of Pine River, and Mike Tauber, …
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Water Protectors and Line 3: Jan Haaken talks with Winona LaDuke about the fight against Enbridge Energy's Line 3 in Minnesota, a pipeline project that would expand the flow of highly toxic tar sands oil through critical waterways and lands in this region. LaDuke is Executive Director of Honor the Earth, and an economist and environmental activist known for her work on tribal land claims and sustainable development. As a Water and Land Protector on the front lines, she explains why direct action is so vital to this struggle and how activists from other regions can support the resistance there.
Gio Cerise (left) of the White Earth Nation comforts Dawn Goodwin as they watch workers resume construction on the Line 3 pipeline in Aitkin County, Minn., on Saturday.
Ben Hovland for MPR News
Protesters gather at Line 3 construction site in Aitkin County
(We are Protectors Not Protestors)
Kirsti Marohn Palisade, Minn. January 9, 2021 5:46 p.m.
Opponents of the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project gathered Saturday in northern Minnesota to protest its construction across northern Minnesota.
By mid-morning, a couple hundred people had gathered near Palisade in Aitkin County, where the controversial pipeline Enbridge Energy is building is expected to cross under the Mississippi River.
Opponents of the project, who call themselves water protectors, carried signs and walked down a county road. Some Native women danced in jingle dresses, a healing tradition.
"It certainly feels really beautiful to be out here today,” said Tara Houska, a tribal attorney and founder of Giniw Collective, a Native group fighting the project. “There's a lot of folks that came to bring their prayers and to stand for the rivers for our future generations against big oil."
As Enbridge Races to Build Line 3 Pipeline, Resistance Ramps Up in the Courts and On the Ground
By Dana Drugmand • Friday, January 8, 2021 - 16:52
Pipeline Destruction at Hwy 169 in Hill City, MN where a worker was killed under unsafe conditions. Photo by Sarah LittleRedfeather
Longstanding Opposition
New Legal Challenges
‘Destruction is Brutal’
Meanwhile, the fight against Line 3 in Minnesota is continuing on the ground as Enbridge plows ahead with construction.
A coalition of Indigenous and environmental groups — including Honor the Earth, RISE Coalition, Giniw Collective, Gitchigumi Scouts, Indigenous Environmental Network, and Red Lake Treaty Camp — is amplifying the grassroots resistance.
In addition to the demonstration on January 2 that resulted in 14 arrests, multiple demonstrations have occurred in recent weeks, including one in mid-December when 22 water protectors were arrested. Another demonstration was held on January 5 in Superior, Wisconsin (the proposed end point of Line 3), and one is scheduled for Saturday, January 9, again at Great River Road just north of Palisade, Minnesota.
According to a firsthand account of the Line 3 resistance camp from Winona LaDuke on January 7: “Lots of people [are] stopping by and dropping off wood, food, warm clothes, Christmas cookies and cash.” She described the people engaged on the ground as “Volunteers of all walks of life — ex-DNR [Department of Natural Resources] officers, Episcopal Bishop of Minnesota, delegations of state representatives, and then lots of police.”
“There's a huge frustration with the state and some righteous anger, as people watch the 4,200 out-of-state workers come into our territory,” LaDuke explained in a statement emailed to DeSmog. “The destruction is brutal … Heavier and heavier equipment comes and the devastation of the project becomes clear — from the right-of-way given to Enbridge to the 630 million gallons of water Enbridge is allowed to discharge from wetlands and through pipes. People are very determined and so far 44 have been arrested.”
LaDuke notes that in a new article published Thursday, January 7 in The Nation, she describes the construction process as akin to rape.
“Let us shove this pipeline through. We will brutalize your village, we will drive our equipment over your medicines and then we will bring in the drill and drill under your rivers. The company is gunning for the 22 river crossings, with seven crews,” she told DeSmog. “It’s brutal.”
Officers from the Northern Lights Task Force gathered in Palisade at dusk on Saturday at the site of the Enbridge Line 3 Replacement Project. There were two arrests and 12 other citations issued.
More arrests made at Enbridge Line 3
Activists gathered at the Enbridge Line 3 construction site north of Palisade on Jan. 2 for another day of protesting the Enbridge project.
The Aitkin County Sheriff’s Department, along with other members of the Northern Lights Task Force, were on scene. The NLTF is a law enforcement group of 17 county sheriff’s departments and the Fond du Lac Reservation, formed in 2016 in anticipation of protests over the project.
By the time night fell, two women were arrested and 12 others cited for public nuisance, unlawful assembly and failure to leave an unlawful assembly, and then released. All 14 were taken to the Jacobson Community Center – the base of operations for the task force. The two arrested were taken to the Aitkin County Jail and the rest were released.
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Tania Aubid is on a Hunger Strike to #StopLine3
As of March 6, 2021, marks 21 Days
Water Protector Tania Aubid on going on a hunger strike to stop Line 3.
Tania Aubid is on day 20 now on her hunger strike to #StopLine3 — Filmed here in Grand Rapids at Prairie River where on March 3, 1991 one of the largest oil spills occurred. We gathered and marched for that water this day organized by @giniwcollective ... Tania’s sacrifice for the water, future generations and awareness is well beyond inspiring, and we continue to pray with her. We have another chance here to stop a pipeline preventing any future destruction of our waters and life as we know it as Anishinaabe people.
Dawn Goodwin: Ojibwe language: my name is Don Goodwin and I live here in White Earth.
(Muhnoomin Gaynuhwayndung Aynduhzhiguhbayshing) Manoomin Protector Camp
JANUARY, 5 2021
“ … two blockades were erected ten miles apart on a road into the wetlands of Savanna State Forest, blocking access to construction of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. The silence continues from the Walz administration as Enbridge bulldozes through Anishinaabe territory and water protectors face arrest.” via Giniw Collective
Note: Enbridge intends to cross another river of the 22-crossings, Earth Savanna River, (Map 46.888834 -93.030293) and is using public land, small rural public roads and State Forests as their equipment destructive pathway to build Line 3.
JANUARY, 9 2021
Rally for the Water: #StopLine3
Our numbers are growing. Today 250-300 water protectors gathered in Aitkin County MN at the Mississippi to Hill City to Stop Line 3 starting with a #jingledressdance for healing.
And an action to interrupt the laying of old pipe because #waterislife and we care about #futuregenerations