Urging Biden to Stop Line 3, Indigenous-Led Resistance Camps Ramp Up Efforts to Slow Construction
Biden has pledged to make environmental justice, including Native rights, a cornerstone of his climate policy, but his response to Line 3 remains uncertain.
February 16, 2021
Protesters of Enbridge Energy s Line 3 replacement project walk through the project s construction zone near Palisade, Minnesota. The oil pipeline will stretch through 337 miles in northern Minnesota. Credit: Nedahness Greene
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The Biden administration may have finally put the Keystone XL pipeline to rest, but Tara Houska has hardly had time to celebrate.
Just a week after President Biden revoked Keystone’s border-crossing permit, Houska was on a video call in late January with a dozen other Indigenous activists and over a thousand spectators. She was calling on them to join her fight in northern Minnesota to stop another trans-U.S.-Canada oil pipeline: Line 3.
February 12, 2021
Sherri Mitchell Weh na Ha mu Kwasset, Indigenous rights attorney and executive director of the Land Peace Foundation
Sustainability goals have become top of mind for an increasing number of corporations and communities, but in the words of Tara Houska (Couchiching First Nation), attorney, environmental and Indigenous rights advocate, we will not solar panel or vote our way out of this crisis without also radically re-framing our connection with our Mother.
In order to restore balance in our environment, we must first listen to the natural world and to those who know it best.
During the GreenBiz 21 keynote session All We Can Save: Why We Must Learn from Indigenous Wisdom, hosted by All We Can Save co-founder Katharine Wilkinson, Houska who took a short break from the outdoor resistance camp in Minnesota, where she is taking part in demonstrations against new pipeline beds related to the Line 3 project joined Sherri Mitchell Weh na Ha mu Kwasset, Indi
Protesters demonstrate against the Enbridge Line 3 Pipeline in northwestern Minnesota on Dec. 17, 2020. (Sarah LittleRedfeather/Honor the Earth)
Native tribes and faith leaders are together calling on President Joe Biden to intervene in the ongoing construction of the long-contested Line 3 pipeline in northern Minnesota.
Nearly 3,800 people have signed a petition organized by Interfaith Power & Light. The petition, along with a separate letter signed by 345 faith leaders and organizations, asks that the president use executive actions to stop the $2.6 billion Enbridge Energy project a 1,097-mile replacement pipeline that, once complete, would transport daily 915,000 barrels of Canadian tar sands oil, which produces larger quantities of greenhouse gas emissions than typical crude oil.