Line 3, still protesting
Line 3: protests over pipeline through tribal lands spark clashes and mass arrests
Police arrested more than 100 people this week as activists try to block the expansion of the pipeline
KLX is dead
Months after President Biden revoked the Keystone XL permit, TC Energy Corp in conjunction with the Albertan provincial government, have voiced their decision to abandon the project.
After 13 years of concerted efforts by Indigenous-led environmental frontline actions, the pipeline, which would have carried upwards of 35 million gallons of crude oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Gulf Coast, is DEAD.
“The end of KXL is an affirmation that persistence works, that intersectional organizing works, and that when we center our efforts in our Indigenous values and in our respect for water, land, and our people, we win.” — Jade Begay, Climate Justice Campaign Director for the NDN Collective.
https://www.npr.org/2021/06/09/1004908006/developer-abandons-keystone-xl-pipeline-project-ending-decade-long-battle
Seniors taking a stand
Saul Arbess, 82, said when the officers saw more than 100 seniors marching up the road, they just rolled up their police tape that marks the exclusion zone at Road 2000 and left.
Alison Acker, 92, was there on Tuesday, as she had been in Clayoquot Sound during the famed War in the Woods in the early 1990s. She was arrested there and was prepared to be arrested now.
Seniors overwhelm RCMP barrier past Fairy Creek blockade
About 100 elderly hikers swarmed the RCMP exclusion zone, no arrests were made
Logging protest camps fundraiser
Hughes says the money will be sent to the Indigenous land defenders to be used for legal aid and “costs associated with healing from RCMP violence.”
Fundraiser for arrested Vancouver Island logging protesters tops $18K
The protest camps have been broken up by RCMP over the last week, 53 arrested
Indigenous women fight back
Enbridge, the Canadian energy company behind Line 3, claims it is merely replacing a 60-year-old pipeline that is likely to corrode and leak if it isn’t updated. But opponents see the plan as an expansion of it, because it will carry twice the amount of oil. Houska says Line 3 violates Anishinaabe rights granted under the 1837 White Pine Treaty by endangering wild rice, a plant unique to the region and sacred to her tribe. The pipeline faces legal challenges from tribes, environmental groups, and even the Minnesota Department of Commerce, all of which say the environmental risks far exceed the need for additional oil.
A pipeline is threatening their homeland. Indigenous women are fighting back.
To tribal attorney Tara Houska, the fight against the Line 3 pipeline is a fight for future generations.
Stop Line 3
Indigenous Gardening
Because these wild-looking forest gardens don’t fit conventional Western notions of agriculture, it took a long time for researchers to recognize them as a human-created landscape at all.
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/04/pacific-northwest-s-forest-gardens-were-deliberately-planted-indigenous-people
Hummingbirds Stop Trans Mountain Pipeline
Revoking Trumps Energy Orders
“From day one, President Biden was clear that we must take a whole-of-government approach to tackle the climate crisis, strengthen the economy and address environmental justice,” Haaland said in a statement. The new orders will “make our communities more resilient to climate change and … help lead the transition to a clean energy economy,” she added.
Deb Haaland revokes Donald Trump-era energy orders
Matthew DalyAssociated Press WASHINGTON – Interior Secretary Deb Haaland revoked a series of Trump administration orders that promoted fossil fuel development
War in the woods
‘War in the woods’: activists blockade Vancouver Island in bid to save ancient trees
Loggers say blockades threaten their livelihoods as activists build fortifications and vow to remain