Urgent Action: Ask Deb Haaland to stop Line 3

On the night of June 27, 2021, at the construction of the Enbridge Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline outside Palisade in Aitkin County, MN, workers drilled and inserted a section of Line 3 under the Mississippi River.

This is a call to contact Deb Haaland, Secretary of the Department of the Interior

Background:

• The drilling happened in spite of the stop work order of the Army Corps of Engineers, which was put in place to protect a ceremonial lodge on the river banks.
  
• This action directly prevented Anishinaabe people from conducting ceremony at a sacred site which are rights protected under the 1855 Treaty.
  
• Law enforcement harassed and intimidated tribal members in violation of the American Indian Religious Freedom Act which protects the right of freedom to believe, express, and exercise their traditional religious rites, spiritual and cultural practices. These actions continued after a cease and desist order from the 1855 Treaty Authority.
  
• The pipeline work shook the ground and armed law enforcement escorted Enbridge workers through the sacred site during ceremony as a form of intimidation.
  
• These actions are a part of an ongoing pattern of harassment, surveillance, and targeting by law enforcement of Indigenous peoples attempting to exercise their treaty rights while Enbridge builds a pipeline through their treaty land.

Read More: Indigenous women leaders resisting Line 3 invite Secretary Deb Haaland to Minnesota.