Resistance and direct action from Indigenous Water Protectors, elders, youth, environmental organizations and Minnesota residents continue as Enbridge’s Line 3 sits at 90% completion.
This pipeline will allow nearly one million barrels of tar sands oil per day to travel through untouched wetlands while endangering the Dakota and Anishinaabe people, their sovereignty, their ecosystems and their capacity to live off the land by means of hunting, fishing, trapping and harvesting wild rice.
The existence and operation of Line 3 exposes the Mississippi River, and the 212 additional bodies of water it will cross, to oil spill degradation. Enbridge argues that a state water quality and wetland permit, issued by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, confirms the entity’s ability to protect wetlands and other bodies of water in the pipeline’s path. Enbridge is responsible for the one million gallons of oil that were spilled in the Kalamazoo River near Marshall, Michigan in 2010 - one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history.
Clockwise from left: Natalie, Emily, Nadirah, and Kathy of the Minneapolis band Gully Boys, outside of their studio in St. Paul on Thursday, June 24th, ahead of their first show since the pandemic. The band will perform at a Pride block party at the end of this month. (Brooklynn T. Kascel/MPR)
Ronnie King represents the Omega Psi Phi fraternity during a sickle cell disease blood drive on Saturday, September 25th, outside Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in north Minneapolis. Close to 60 people attended the drive to donate for the cause which was sponsored by the church and Omega Psi Phi Epsilon Rho, a Black fraternity that supports community members in need. (Brooklynn Kascel/MPR News)
Dr. David Hamlar prepares to donate blood during a sickle cell disease blood drive on Saturday, September 25th, at Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church in north Minneapolis. Close to 60 people attended the drive to donate for the cause. (Brooklynn Kascel/MPR News)
Lynette Nyman, Regional Communications Manager with the American Red Cross Minnesota and Dakotas, stands outside of Fellowship Missionary Baptist Church during a blood drive for sickle cell disease on Saturday, September 25th, 2021 in north Minneapolis. Nyman helps to promote initiatives to increase the availability of blood products for sickle cell disease patients. (Brooklynn Kascel/MPR News)
Clockwise from left: Nadirah, Emily, Natalie and Kathy of the Minneapolis band Gully Boys, outside of their studio in St. Paul on Thursday, June 24th, ahead of their first show since the pandemic. The band will perform at a Pride block party at the end of this month. (Brooklynn T. Kascel/MPR)
The worship center and surrounding area at Faith Lutheran Church, ELCA are reflected in glass on Wednesday, April 24, 2019 in Wabasha, Minnesota. Mental health care providers, public health officials, farmers, and farming advocates from the state’s second congressional district voiced concerns about limited access to mental health resources in farming communities and the emotional impact of social isolation in rural areas. (Brooklynn Kascel/New York Times)
The Mississippi River Bridge stretches across Main Street W. in downtown Wabasha, Minnesota on Wednesday, April 24, 2019. This particular bridge connects the states of Wisconsin and Minnesota. (Brooklynn Kascel/New York Times)
Thousands gather and proceed to march throughout Manhattan for the Global Climate Strike on September 20th, 2019.
State troopers guard the semi ordered to remove the newly toppled statue of Christopher Columbus at the Minnesota State Capitol on Wednesday, June 10th, 2020. On the other side of the street a protest was organized by the American Indian Movement (AIM) of the Twin Cities to expose the true symbolism of this statue and many like it; racism, slavery, abuse, genocide, colonialism, imperialism, erasure, whiteness. Founded by Minneapolis activists in 1968, AIM seeks to fully restore tribal sovereignty and treaty rights. (Photo by Brooklynn Kascel)
The building proposed to replace the Third Police Precinct remains boarded up and empty on Wednesday, September 16th, 2020 in the Seward neighborhood of south Minneapolis. According to a press release from Seward Police Abolition, neighbors in Minneapolis celebrated victory on Wednesday afternoon when their grassroots organization efforts stopped the city from leasing this building as the reestablished 3rd Precinct for the Minneapolis Police Department. (Photo By Brooklynn Kascel)