Published: Wednesday, June 9, 2021
Pipeline illustration. Credits: Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Francis Chung/E&E News (White House); ProjectManager/Wikipedia (pipeline) Claudine Hellmuth/E&E News (illustration); Francis Chung/E&E News (White House); ProjectManager/Wikipedia (pipeline)
Protests against two Midwestern pipelines this week signal a challenge for the Biden administration as it navigates a path between federal rules, its climate agenda and the Democratic Party s left flank.
Days of protests in northern Minnesota against Enbridge Inc. s Line 3 oil pipeline wound down yesterday, after opponents and celebrities like Jane Fonda strapped themselves to heavy machinery at a company site, saying the project threatens waterways and global climate goals. An estimated 200 people were arrested during the protests, at which a U.S. Customs and Border Protection helicopter hovered low over a crowd near Park Rapids, Minn.
Northern Minnesota jails and the Northern Lights Task Force abuse and deny rights of Indigenous activists and allies
Northern Lights Task Force received assistance from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security
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(Photo: Mississippi Headwaters Action, courtesy Indigenous Environmental Network)
Northern Lights Task Force received assistance from U.S. Customs and Border Patrol and the Department of Homeland Security
News Release
Indigenous Environmental Network On June 7th and 8th, 2021, people from across the country gathered together in Northern Minnesota to honor treaties and stop construction of Enbridge’s Line 3 toxic tar sands pipeline in Anishinaabe territory. The Treaty Peoples Gathering was a part of the Indigenous-led movement to stop Line 3.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection is investigating whether the actions of the helicopter team were justified after they flew low over Line 3 oil pipeline protesters in Park Rapids, Minn., earlier this week, kicking up dust and debris in what some say appears to have been attempt to disperse the activists.