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Water Protectors Say Enbridge Is Pressuring Local Governments to Silence Them
Tania Aubid, a longstanding activist and member of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, speaks to protesters about the environmental and human risks of allowing Enbridge Line 3 pipeline to be built across Northern Minnesota, in St. Paul, Minnesota, on January 29, 2021.
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Palisade, Minnesota Even in the bitter cold, the pretty little park along the Mississippi River is inviting, a typical gathering spot for community events with its broad trees and public pavilion.
But Berglund Park stood empty recently as families and community members huddled around warming fires in an open field nearby, listening to music and eating Indian tacos as they learned about the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline cutting through their community.
On January 2, 2021, during the first weekend of the New Year, dozens of water protectors gathered to demonstrate and pray along Great River Road near Palisade, Minnesota. They joined in song, protesting a controversial tar sands oil pipeline called Line 3, which is currently being constructed through northern Minnesota and traditional Anishinaabe lands. Ojibwe tribes have
LaDuke, Line 3 opponents stage first of weekly protests at Enbridge office in Park Rapids
Winona LaDuke explains her fellow water protectors continuing opposition to the oil pipeline replacement project, despite final permit approvals allowing construction to move forward. 3:00 pm, Dec. 19, 2020 ×
Winona La Duke, second from left, and a group of Indigenous and allies protest the construction of the Line 3 oil pipeline Tuesday, Dec. 15 at the Enbridge office in Park Rapids. (Robin Fish/Enterprise)
PARK RAPIDS, Minn. Winona LaDuke and a small group of opponents of the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project braved frigid winds Tuesday, Dec. 15, to demonstrate outside the Enbridge Energy office in Park Rapids, Minn.
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AMY GOODMAN: And the significance of her going to Standing Rock? Which brings us to Enbridge 3 and what this is all about, these very similar struggles. And if you can make the connections? Back in 2016, I was with you at Standing Rock covering what you were doing. You pitched your tent there. And Deb Haaland was there also.
WINONA LADUKE: Yes, she was. A lot of people came to Standing Rock and were politicized, because it’s this moment in time that we realized that the rights of corporations have superseded the rights of people. And the question is, you know, let us protect our water.