The trickle of activists began on Thursday but it quickly grew into a stream that filled northern Minnesota campgrounds surrounding the Mississippi …
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Line 3 Pipeline Protests: Indigenous Leaders, Activists Urge Biden to Intervene
Thousands of protestors have gathered in Minnesota to stop Canadian oil company Enbridge from constructing a new pipeline through the Mississippi River headwaters and Anishinaabe treaty land. Advocates say the construction threatens wetlands, violates tribal sovereignty and will exacerbate the climate emergency. Read more about the protests, the Line 3 project's potential environmental cost, and how Indigenous leaders and activists are pressing President Joe Biden to halt it.
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Frank Bibeau remembers canoeing on the waters of northern Minnesota with his father on a late summer day in 1996. The sky and placid lake stretched …
Actress and environmental activist Jane Fonda said Tuesday that President Biden has not done “enough” about the oil pipelines crisis. During an …
The largest civil disobedience yet against new pipeline construction in Minnesota was met by a furious response — and a cloud of debris. A Department …
Protests against Enbridge’s Line 3 have been ramping up in Minnesota—and so has the response from authorities. A video went viral this week of a …
On 15 May, a woman met a pipeline worker at a bar in Minnesota and agreed to go to his house, but when they arrived, there were four other people there and she felt uncomfortable.
Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline construction is running into tribal resistance over fears of water pollution, wild rice impacts, climate change, and exploitation of Native women.
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