Pressure Mounts Against Line 3 Pipeline Project
$3 billion tar sands pipeline expansion project faces renewed resistance from Indigenous rights activists and environmentalists.
Fiona McLeod
January 27, 2021
Indigenous water protectors in Minnesota are demanding that President Biden — who revoked permits for the Keystone XL during his first day in office — scrap another tar sands pipeline project: the expansion of Enbridge Energy’s Line 3. Work on the controversial pipeline moved forward at the end of last year despite an undecided, tribally-led lawsuit requesting a court injunction to halt construction.
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.