'The Army Corps and Biden administration must put people over profits.'
"The construction of this pipeline will bring massive risk and destruction. We do not want to see irreversible damage to our land, water, and wild rice. We do not want our lifeways destroyed."Indigenous women leaders and more than 200 advocacy organizations sent a letter Wednesday demanding that the U.S.
Enbridge's pipeline has been a source of heated disputes in the state of Michigan in recent months as Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer attempts to shut Line 5 down, the"very real threat of a catastrophic oil spill in the Great Lakes." Whitmer's efforts have sparked pushback from Enbridge—headquartered in Calgary—and the Canadian government, as well as Republican lawmakers.
This plan places massive risk squarely upon the Bad River Tribe and the Red Cliff Tribe against their will. Furthermore, we consider the pipeline construction an act of cultural genocide. Damage to the land and water destroys food and cultural lifeways that are core to our identity and survival. The pipeline would cut through more than 900 waterways upstream of the Bad River Reservation. The U.S.
We don't trust Enbridge, and with good reason. Just look to the west to see Enbridge's troubling permit violations during Line 3 construction though northern Minnesota.
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