Today on Sojourner Truth, we bring you exclusive audio from a webinar entitled, Stop Line 3 Digital Rally. Line 3 is a proposed pipeline expansion to bring nearly a million barrels of tar sands per day from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. It was proposed in 2014 by Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline company responsible for the largest inland oil spill in the US. Enbridge seeks to build a new pipeline corridor through untouched wetlands and the treaty territory of Anishinaabe peoples, through the Mississippi River headwaters to the shore of Lake Superior.
Line 3 is on the same scale as Keystone XL and Dakota Access. Not only does Line 3 violate Indigenous rights, the pipeline would be a ten percent expansion of tar sands. In total, the pollution this pipeline would carry is equal to about 50 coal power plants. During today's program, you will hear presentations delivered at the digital rally against Line 3, featuring Rep. Ilhan Omar, Tara Houska of the Giniw Collective, Winona LaDuke of Honor the Earth, and Bill McKibben, co-founder of 350.org.
