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Stop The Line 3 Pipeline
For Water. For Treaties. For Climate.
Stop The Line 3 Pipeline
For Water. For Treaties. For Climate.
What is line 3
Line 3 is a proposed pipeline expansion to bring nearly a million barrels of tar sands per day from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. It was proposed in 2014 by Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline company responsible for the largest inland oil spill in the US. Enbridge seeks to build a new pipeline corridor through untouched wetlands and the treaty territory of Anishinaabe peoples, through the Mississippi River headwaters to the shore of Lake Superior.
Why the opposition
All pipelines spill. Line 3 isn’t about safe transportation of a necessary product, it’s about expansion of a dying tar sands industry. Line 3 would contribute more to climate change than Minnesota’s entire economy. Minnesota’s own Department of Commerce found our local market does not need Line 3 oil. We need to decommission the old Line 3 and justly transition to a renewable, sustainable economy. Line 3 would violate the treaty rights of Anishinaabe peoples and nations in its path — wild rice is a centerpiece of Anishinaabe culture, it grows in numerous watersheds Line 3 seeks to cross. It’s well-past time to end the legacy of theft from and destruction of indigenous peoples and territories.
What we can do
We can keep organizing, educating, and advocating to stop Line 3 and build the future we want. Legal and grassroots efforts have kept Enbridge’s Line 3 destruction at bay — it was supposed to be complete in 2017. We are holding events in our homes, community centers, churches, schools, and online. We are talking to our politicians, speaking up at hearings, marching in protests, taking nonviolent direct action together, and reporting Enbridge’s activity along the proposed route. We are teaching and learning from each other. We are growing food and investing in renewable energy. Wherever you are and whatever your skill set, there is a place for you in the movement to stop Line 3.
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Enbridge’s acknowledgement of growing climate policy pressure on its pipelines’ longevity came in federal regulatory filings earlier this year.
Honor the Earth, filed a petition with the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (PUC) to promptly open a new docket to establish a pipeline abandonment trust fund for the new Line 3 pipeline, which the PUC committed to do nearly three years ago.
They contend thermal imaging will show potential damage.
The pipeline controversy of today echoes back to a tangled history of broken treaties and empty promises.
Posted in online in two parts, a very moving and well-researched account of the Line 3 struggle, featuring Tara Houska and Taysha Martineau.
Thousands of Indigenous leaders and climate activists from around the country took non-violent direct action in Washington DC, calling on the Biden administration to take urgent action to stop fossil fuel infrastructure projects.
“You have declared a code red climate emergency, stating that ‘the nation and the world are in peril.’ We agree. It is past time to act in accordance with your declaration- you must act now and stop the Line 3 pipeline, or risk irreversible damage to our land, water, and climate.”
“The journey to stop Enbridge’s violation of treaty rights and destruction of land and waterways of the upper Midwest continues. Together, they will continue their protection of our Great Lakes, upholding their treaty rights, and ensuring the next seven generations have clean water.”
Water Protectors to deliver 1 million petitions to Stop Line 3 oil pipeline. Indigenous leaders from Northern Minnesota to deliver petitions to the Biden Administration at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers HQ
As Oil Spills Add Urgency to Calls For Biden To Act, Indigenous & Climate Justice Activists Preview Next Week’s Major Protests at the White House
After 7 years of resistance from Indigenous communities and climate activists, Enbridge Energy announced last week that the new Line 3 pipeline would be “Substantially Completed and Set to be Fully Operational.”
“Line 3 is a crime against the environment and Indigenous rights, waters and lands,” said Winona LaDuke, executive director of Indigenous rights organization Honor the Earth. “Enbridge has raced to build this line before the Federal court has passed judgment on our appeals about the line.”
To guide President Biden as he faces one of the most critical decisions of his Presidency, organizers at Honor the Earth compiled a list of Enbridge’s greatest hits in the Line 3 process:
Indigenous, environmental and community leaders released the following statements after news broke that oil will begin flowing through the new Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota as Enbridge announced that the pipeline is “substantially completed and set to be fully operational.”
The Motion for Injunction alleges DNR permits are part of an after-the-fact DNR permitting cover-up with Enbridge, and that at the same time, the MPCA is quietly ignoring frac-outs as a reason to stop pollution waters.
Photo by Keri Pickett
«Article 6 of the Constitution states that treaties are the supreme law of the land, and that no state or local government can supersede that,» Morales explained. «In those treaties, the rights to fish, hunt, gather, and travel are guaranteed. As such, we’re walking on those rights.»
EIS before the Oil. Treaty People Fight Back
“The complaint is notable as it is the first enforcement action under a 2018 White Earth Band law establishing the inherent rights of wild rice, the tribe’s main treaty food, which grows in water. Manoomin, the Ojibwe word for wild rice, is lead plaintiff in the case.” by Law360
‘Your struggle is our struggle‘ : Progressive ‘Squad’ stands in solidarity with Water Protectors, and Tribal Leadership to Stop Line 3.
On August 31, CERD published a letter to the U.S. Government dated August 25, requesting that the U.S. respond to these allegations. The letter notes, among other things, that these rights violations would amount to a violation of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), which the U.S. has signed and ratified.
More than 600 people have now been arrested or received citations over protests amid growing opposition to the Line 3 oil sands pipeline currently under construction through Minnesota.
In the face of an alarming new IPCC report, droughts and wildfires, the Biden Administration and Minnesota elected officials face increasingly loud calls to stop the Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
Stop The Line 3 Pipeline
For Water. For Treaties. For Climate.
What is line 3
Line 3 is a proposed pipeline expansion to bring nearly a million barrels of tar sands per day from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. It was proposed in 2014 by Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline company responsible for the largest inland oil spill in the US. Enbridge seeks to build a new pipeline corridor through untouched wetlands and the treaty territory of Anishinaabe peoples, through the Mississippi River headwaters to the shore of Lake Superior.
Why the opposition
All pipelines spill. Line 3 isn’t about safe transportation of a necessary product, it’s about expansion of a dying tar sands industry. Line 3 would contribute more to climate change than Minnesota’s entire economy. Minnesota’s own Department of Commerce found our local market does not need Line 3 oil. We need to decommission the old Line 3 and justly transition to a renewable, sustainable economy. Line 3 would violate the treaty rights of Anishinaabe peoples and nations in its path — wild rice is a centerpiece of Anishinaabe culture, it grows in numerous watersheds Line 3 seeks to cross. It’s well-past time to end the legacy of theft from and destruction of indigenous peoples and territories.
What we can do
We can keep organizing, educating, and advocating to stop Line 3 and build the future we want. Legal and grassroots efforts have kept Enbridge’s Line 3 destruction at bay — it was supposed to be complete in 2017. We are holding events in our homes, community centers, churches, schools, and online. We are talking to our politicians, speaking up at hearings, marching in protests, taking nonviolent direct action together, and reporting Enbridge’s activity along the proposed route. We are teaching and learning from each other. We are growing food and investing in renewable energy. Wherever you are and whatever your skill set, there is a place for you in the movement to stop Line 3.
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Come to the Line
Ready to come up to the frontlines?
Water protectors need you and are ready for you to arrive! There are many pathways and places to plug in, but here’s the information you need to get started.
Click each camp on the map below to find out the most current information, donation links, needs, expectations, and more.
Different camps have different security practices. Some camps welcome you to come directly there, some want to have you vetted first to protect themselves and their work. The linked docs in this map will tell you each camps process. Not all camps are listed here for security reasons.
Don’t know where to start?
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Check this Google Doc for many helpful links to different on-ramps to the movement. Check this frequently updated dashboard for current opportunities.
Never done frontline resistance work before? Attend a virtual training.
You are stepping into an area where you are a guest. We ask that you know the practices listed below in order to conduct yourself respectfully in the different communities.
The Seven Values
GWAYAKWAADIZIWIN (HONESTY)
To achieve honesty within yourself is to recognize who and what you are. Do this and you can be honest with all others.
DABAADENDIZIWIN (HUMILITY)
Humble yourself and recognize that no matter how much you think you know, you know very little.
DEBWEWIN (TRUTH)
To learn Truth, to live Truth, to walk Truth, and to speak Truth.
NIBWAAKAAWIN (WISDOM)
To have Wisdom is to know the difference between good and bad and to know the result of your actions.
ZAAGI’IDIWIN (LOVE/COMPASSION)
Unconditional love and compassion is to know that when people are weak, they need your love and compassion the most.
MANAADENDAMOWIN (RESPECT)
Respect others, their beliefs. Respect yourself. When you practice respect, respect will be given back to you.
AAKWADE’EWIN (BRAVERY/COURAGE)
Have bravery and courage in doing things right even though it may hurt you physically and mentally.
Be a Good Relative
In your interactions with Water Protectors and local community members, please:
Work harder than ever before and be happy
Be prepared to take care of yourself – have proper clothing, shelter, sanitation supplies, and food
Ask permission from knowledge holders to share their stories
Look out for children and elders
Clean up after yourself
Represent our movement well – when you go into town, please clean up. Wash in a lake, wear modest clothing.
If you are a guest in our territory (especially a white ally), listen and learn.
If you tend to talk a lot (especially white men), listen. If you do speak, ask yourself, ‘why am I speaking?’
Use the pronouns that individuals identify with. Some transgender, queer, and two-spirit Water Protectors prefer to be referred to with gender neutral pronouns of “they” and “them” (rather than he/him or she/her). If you are not sure what pronouns to use, ask. It is best to ask everyone, not just people you are unsure about. This will help normalize the fact that we cannot assume someone’s gender identity by their physical appearance.
Utilize and respect holistic thinking and move beyond linear thinking
Honor what it means “to be indigenous” and “of a place.” You are not from here.
Respect indigenous sovereignty
Know how to be accountable with the experience that you having. How are you going to bring it back home?
SECURITY
Please note that the militarization of the water protector camps at Standing Rock occurred under President Obama. President Trump is much less sympathetic to the goals of Water Protectors. Some of the counties in northern MN are convinced to support Line 3 by the promise of jobs (however short term). Their lack of support for our cause is exacerbated by media that tries to divide our communities, painting those opposed to Line 3 as radical environmentalists and failing to point out that Line 3 puts the hunting grounds, fishing spots, and lakes cherished by most Minnesotan families at risk. Our number one priority at water protector camps is safety. Please be prepared for government officials to escalate police presence quickly and know that tribal police are understaffed and under-resourced. There are few ambulances, health care services, and stores or gas stations in much of the region that needs protecting, so it is vital that you come prepared to support your own safety and that of others.
Pipeline Maps
INTERACTIVE LINE 3 MAP
The map above shows the new HDD River crossings that was approved by MPCA and Army Corps. in 2020.
Enbridge will begin their roadway destruction crossings June 1, 2021. Here is a simple map indicating HDD River Crossings Destruction Dates.
NOTE: This interactive map was updated in November 2018, to display the final route approved by the MN PUC, which is different from the route originally proposed by Enbridge and used in the Environmental Impact Statement. There were 2 major changes: 1) the new route makes a small jog east around Mud Lake and Upper Rice Lake in order to avoid the watersheds of the White Earth Reservation, and 2) it rejoins the existing Line 3 corridor (the Enbridge Mainline) near Floodwood and follows it across the Fond du Lac Reservation instead of turning south in Aitkin County to avoid the reservation, as originally proposed (the Fond du Lac Band agreed to this change on August 31, 2018). Here are the “Route Segment Alternative” maps showing these changes:
Mapping the Black Snake
This map was created in collaboration with the Twin Cities Branch of Science for the People.
DETAILED MAPS OF NEW ROUTE
These are the official maps (satellite imagery and topographic) of the final route approved by the State of Minnesota for Enbridge’s new Line 3 corridor, and included in the Routing Permit for the project. In June 2018, the MN Public Utilities Commission voted to approve a new Line 3. On October 26, 2018, the PUC issued a Routing Permit. The final route includes 2 major changes to the route originally proposed by Enbridge, as explained above.