Line 3 Pipeline

First Trial From Treaty People Gathering Ends In Acquittal

August 25, 2021 Sean Parsons, Unicorn Riot. Educate! Criminal Justice and Prisons, Line 3 Pipeline, Pipelines

The first person arrested during this summer’s Treaty People Gathering to take her case to trial was acquitted Wednesday on one gross misdemeanor charge in Hubbard County District Court, marking the first ruling in dozens of cases to be brought from the occupation of the Two Inlets pump station.

Despite Thousands of Protestors, Line 3 Almost Done

August 15, 2021 Kristoffer Tigue, Inside Climate News. Resist! Fossil Fuels, Line 3 Pipeline, Minnesota, Pipelines

In the dense coniferous forests of northern Minnesota, they’ve shown up nearly every day to chain themselves to equipment and block traffic on roads, chanting “water is life.” Not a week has passed this summer that activists haven’t used their bodies to stymie construction of Line 3, an oil pipeline that would deliver energy-intensive Canadian crude from the tar sands of Alberta to the Midwest. But those efforts don’t appear to be stopping the project, which has steamrolled forward since obtaining its final permits late last year. All but the Minnesota section of Enbridge Energy’s 1,031-mile pipeline has been finished, and now the Canada-based energy giant says that that remaining work is 80 percent complete.

Water Walkers Headed For Minnesota Capitol

August 13, 2021 Barbara With, WCMC. Resist! Fossil Fuels, Line 3 Pipeline, Minnesota, Pipelines

Water walkers bound for the Minnesota State Capitol left Backus, MN this morning after spending the night at the home of an ally along the route. The walk began last Saturday at the Fire Light Water Protector camp situated on the Mississippi River. Water protectors spent nearly three weeks camping on the roadside near the Upper Mississippi to monitor Enbridge’s drilling activity under the river as they construct the Line 3 Tar Sands pipeline. Enbridge has drilled under dozens of rivers and waterways, causing several major “frac outs” that spilled toxic drilling fluid into rivers and wetlands. The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources has not appeared to provide oversight or consistently monitor Enbridge’s work.

Court Stops Police From Blockading Line 3 Protester Camp

July 25, 2021 Kenny Stancil, Common Dreams. Resist! Canada, Legal System, Line 3 Pipeline, Pipelines

In a development progressives called a "huge legal win in the fight against Line 3," a Minnesota court on Friday ordered police in Hubbard County to stop impeding access to the Giniw Collective's camp, where anti-pipeline activists have been organizing opposition to Enbridge's multibillion-dollar tar sands project. The ruling comes less than a week after Tara Houska, an Indigenous rights attorney and founder of the Giniw Collective, and Winona LaDuke, an environmental justice advocate and co-founder of Honor the Earth, filed for a temporary restraining order against Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes, and the local land commissioner in northern Minnesota. "We want to thank the court for informing Hubbard County about the rights of property owners, and hope that the sheriff's continued preoccupation with the repression of water protectors can be focused on real criminals," LaDuke said Friday in a statement.

Winona LaDuke Arrested, Released From Jail

July 24, 2021 Deena Winter, Indian Country Today. Resist! Canada, Criminal Justice and Prisons, Line 3 Pipeline, Pipelines

White Earth Ojibwe activist and former Green Party vice presidential candidate Winona LaDuke was released from jail Thursday after her arrest Monday while protesting construction of an oil pipeline in northern Minnesota. She and six other women were sitting together praying on an easement and protesting construction of the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline near Park Rapids at the Shell River — which the pipeline will cross in five places — when they were arrested for trespassing.

Interview With A Native Water Protector In Minnesota

July 21, 2021 Sam Carliner, Left Voice. Resist! Environment, Indigenous Rights, Line 3 Pipeline, Pipelines

Native-led water protectors have been fighting to stop construction on the Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota. Enbridge, the Canadian multinational behind the pipeline, is violating Native treaties and is already responsible for one of the worst inland oil spills in U.S. history. Line 3 now threatens spillage in Indigenous environments as well as the Mississippi River.

Lawsuit Filed By Indigenous Water Protectors Against Sheriff

July 17, 2021 The Center for Protest Law and Litigation. Resist! Indigenous Rights, Law, Line 3 Pipeline, Pipelines

Indigenous environmental protectors opposing the expansion of Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline, Tara Houska and Winona LaDuke, represented by the Center for Protest Law and Litigation, a project of the Partnership for Civil Justice Fund, and EarthRights International, today filed for a restraining order against Hubbard County, Sheriff Cory Aukes and the local land commissioner in northern Minnesota. The Hubbard County Sheriff has unlawfully blockaded access to a camp serving as a convergence space and home for Indigenous-led organizing, decolonization and treaty rights trainings, and religious activities by water protectors seeking to defend the untouched wetlands and the treaty territory of Anishinaabe people.

Water Protectors Shut Down Line 3 Worksite

July 12, 2021 Resist Line 3, Popular Resistance. Resist! Blockade, Line 3 Pipeline, Minnesota, Oil and Gas

Floodwood, MN - On Saturday July 10th, water protectors stopped construction for a full day on an Enbridge worksite laying pipe for the Line 3 pipeline. Two water protectors locked to each other through the treads of a machine, while two others climbed up an excavator's arm, where they stayed for 7 hours. This action took place on Anishinaabe treaty territories in solidarity with leaders of the growing Indigenous-led resistance to Line 3. As these four water protectors stopped machinery, a large crowd gathered on the roadway in support, drumming, singing, and rallying in the summer heat. About 30 police officers from St. Louis, Carlton, and Aitkin counties responded, as well as State Troopers and a Fond Du Lac Tribal Officer.

Water Protectors Occupy Work Sites And Lock Down To Line 3 Pipeline

July 2, 2021 Unicorn Riot. Resist! Environment, Indigenous Activism, Line 3 Pipeline, Pipelines

Final approvals in November 2020 gave Enbridge, a Canadian energy corporation, the go-ahead to complete construction of what the company is calling the Line 3 Replacement Pipeline. The planned pipeline route stretches across 337 miles of traditional Anishinaabe Territory in Northern Minnesota, beginning at tar sands mines in Alberta, Canada and ending at refineries in Superior, Wisconsin. Water protectors opposed to the contentious Line 3 pipeline project have regularly staged non-violent direct actions that stop construction, with several hundred arrested in in action campaigns over the last year. In June, 179 people were arrested when thousands of water protectors shut down an Enbridge pumping station for two days as part of a multi-pronged Treaty People Gathering in Northern Minnesota.

More Arrests Along Enbridge Line 3

June 24, 2021 Mary Annette Pember, Indian Country Today. Resist! Drought, Enbridge, Line 3 Pipeline, Pipelines

Three people were arrested Monday at a prayer lodge along the Mississippi River near an Enbridge construction site as questions persist that the pipeline work is worsening water shortages in northern Minnesota. According to the Aitkin County sheriff’s office, three people were charged with misdemeanor trespass and remained in custody late Tuesday. Police did not release their names. Meanwhile, a large law enforcement presence remained near the prayer lodge Tuesday, said Shania Mattson, a water protector from Palisade, Minnesota. The prayer lodge was built by Tania Aubid of the Milles Lacs Band of Ojibwe and Winona LaDuke of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe on 1855 Treaty ceded lands that are guaranteed for use by Ojibwe people for hunting, fishing and gathering, according to LaDuke and Aubid. LaDuke is executive director of Honor the Earth, a Native American environmental advocacy organization.

A Native-Led Fight Against Pipeline Construction Has Begun In Minnesota

June 16, 2021 Sam Carliner, Left Voice. Resist! climate crisis, Indigenous Rights, Line 3 Pipeline, Minnesota

A native-led battle for the environment is being waged in Minnesota. On June 7, water protectors from the territories of the Anishinaabe tribes — which include members of the Odawa, Ojibwe, Potawatomi, Oji-Cree, Saulteaux, and Algonquin peoples — and their allies set up blockades to delay the construction of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline currently being built from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. These protesters are pitted against Enbridge, a multinational Canadian oil company with a long history of building pipelines that have caused environmental destruction with spills. The current pipeline construction cuts through native lands protected by treaties signed in the 1800s. Enbridge plans to use the pipeline to carry tar sands oil, one of the dirtiest types of fossil fuels.

With KXL Dead, Pressure Intensifies For Biden To Kill Line 3

June 12, 2021 Brett Wilkins, Common Dreams. Resist! Indigenous Rights, Joe Biden, Line 3 Pipeline, Pipelines

Seizing the momentum after a day of major direct action against the Line 3 tar sands pipeline in northern Minnesota, Indigenous and green groups on Wednesday stepped up their pressure on President Joe Biden to honor Native American treaties and protect the environment and climate by stopping the toxic project. The climate advocacy group 350.org said more than 200 water protectors were arrested on Monday and Tuesday after Treaty People Gathering activists blocked access to a pipeline construction site and chained themselves to equipment. Hundreds of Giniw Collective and allied water protectors shut down the Two Inlets pumping station for over 29 hours, while over 1,500 protesters marched to a planned pipeline construction site near the headwaters of the Mississippi River.

Treaty People Gathering Draws Thousands

June 10, 2021 Darren Thompson, Native News Online. Resist! Enbridge, Indigenous Rights, Line 3 Pipeline, Minnesota

Mahnomen, MN—Thousands swarmed northern Minnesota over the weekend for the Treaty People Gathering, an event organized to stand against the ongoing construction of the Enbridge Line 3 replacement project. Crowds of well over 2,000 people gathered on Monday morning at the headwaters of the Mississippi River for a treaty ceremony in the largest gathering yet against the pipeline since construction began in December 2020. Indigenous-led groups, communities of faith, and climate justice organizations organized the Treaty People Conference, which organizers say marks the beginning of a summer of resistance. “We have tried to stop this pipeline for the last seven years,” said Honor the Earth Executive Director and White Earth tribal citizen Winona LaDuke to Native News Online.

‘Treaty People Gathering’ Resists Line 3 Pipeline

June 8, 2021 Alex Binder and Chris Schiano, Unicorn Riot. Resist! Indigenous Rights, Line 3 Pipeline, Minnesota, Pipelines, Treaty People Gathering

Northern Minnesota – As summer approaches, and the wet season moratorium is over, construction for the new Line 3 tar sands pipeline is ramping back up during early June. This increase in work was expected by water protectors, who made a call-out for activists to gather in Indigenous Anishinaabe territory to escalate protests against the pipeline project to transport diluted bitumen (tar sands + toxic diluent). The early June gathering is led by Indigenous women and two-spirit people who are highlighting how treaties “protect all of us.” “We are all treaty people. Non-native people are living on stolen land and continue to benefit from treaties while not honoring them. It is the responsibility of non-native people to know and respect the obligations included in federal and state treaties.”Treaty People Gathering We are covering the action happening on June 7 at the Two Inlets pumping station in Northern Minnesota. Around 4:30PM central time police started arresting participants in the action.

Mass Direct Action By Water Protectors Halts Construction Of Line 3 Pipeline

June 8, 2021 Treaty People Gathering, Popular Resistance. Resist! Indigenous Activism, Line 3 Pipeline, Pipelines, Treaty People Gathering

Northern Minnesota— In Minnesota’s largest ever anti-pipeline mobilization, water protectors Monday morning halted construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 toxic tar sands pipeline. Over 1000 people marched with Indigenous leaders to the headwaters of the Mississippi River for a treaty ceremony at the site where the pipeline is proposed to cross. Further south, over 500 Indigenous people, allies, and celebrities shut down an active Line 3 pump station in a massive direct action in solidarity with the Giniw Collective, an Indigenous women, two-spirit-led frontline land defense group. These actions are a part of the Treaty People Gathering, a mass mobilization of more than 2,000 people planned by Indigenous-led groups, communities of faith, and climate justice organizations, and the beginning of a summer of resistance.

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