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The Society of Fearless Grandmothers-Santa Barbara marches in solidarity with Indigenous Water Protectors, fighting to stop the Enbridge Line 3 Project, a pipeline that violates treaty rights and threatens Indigenous lands in northern Minnesota.
The Enbridge Line 3 pipeline is being built through indigenous territory without consent, violating treaty rights. Prominent native activists have described the pipeline as “cultural genocide.” It would carry 760,000 barrels a day of sludgy tar sands oil 300 miles across northern Minnesota, crossing 200 water bodies including the Mississippi River.
Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, has called Line 3 “a fuse to a carbon bomb,” adding as much greenhouse gas to the atmosphere as 50 new coal-fired power plants. Line 3, he said, would accelerate the climate crisis and the extreme fires, deadly heatwaves, catastrophic drought, food insecurity, migration, severe economic impacts and suffering now being
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Line 3 is being built to carry climate wrecking tar sands through Indigenous territory without consent. The Red Lake Nation, White Earth Nation, and the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe are all suing to stop the pipeline.
Prominent native activists have described the pipeline as “cultural genocide” and Indigenous activists in northern Minnesota are leading the direct actions on the ground.
If built, Line 3 would release as much greenhouse gas into the atmosphere as 50 new coal-fired power plants, or as much greenhouse gas as the entire rest of the state of Minnesota, activists report.
“The fight to stop this pipeline is the fight to save our planet, they said.