On October 29 @USACEHQ approved Enbridge's plans to reroute the aging Line 5 oil pipeline, a move that would put wetlands and fragile Great Lakes ecosystems in harms way.  https://ictnews.org/news/army-corps-approves-enbridge-pipeline-reroute-around-wisconsin-reservation/

So much energy in Mpls this past weekend at the End Fossil Fuels Training hosted by @threewatersprt.bsky.social and @copalmn.bsky.social💛 100 people came together to connect efforts to shut down Enbridge pipelines, protect frontline communities from pollution & stand up for our immigrant neighbors.

‼️Join Three Waters and @copalmn.bsky.social for a weekend training and organizing blitz in Minneapolis Nov 7-9 as part of a national training tour fighting fossil fuel billionaires! If you’ve been looking to plug into local climate or environmental justice work, this training is for you!

Started off No Kings day yesterday with conversations at the Midtown Farmers Market -- we're grateful to them for hosting us this year!

Over 50 people showed up last week to hear an update on the damage to the Line 3 corridor in MN from drone pilot Bee Kakac! We need our state agencies to do better -- not only in monitoring and holding Enbridge accountable for damage, but preventing it by not allowing pipelines through our waters.

Hours of tabling this weekend at Open Streets and Sun Day! Thanks to our awesome partners for leading the Sun Day of Action. At Sun Day, we celebrated the solar and renewable energy we want to see for the future. On this autumn equinox, envision the pipeline free world we want to build.☀️☀️☀️

📌 October 1: Join Three Waters' Bee Kakac as she presents her findings from thermal drome imaging along the Line 3/93 corridor, documenting construction damage that has rarely been addressed. This is also a grassroots fundraiser to support her monitoring work! Sign up here: bit.ly/Line3Update

Come join us on Sunday at Graco Park in NE Minneapolis. We’ll have a table full of folks ready to discuss why a clean energy transition isn’t complete without pipeline resistance.

☀️ This Sunday, join us for a nationwide day of action celebrating clean energy progress and the movement to leave fossil fuels behind. Twin Cities’ Sun Day festival will feature inspiring music, performances, activities, and exhibits. RSVP and learn more: bit.ly/3K2w4Da

“It's a little bit like, ‘Oh, we'll break Humpty Dumpty and put Humpty Dumpty back together again, but we don't have a picture of what Humpty Dumpty looked like in the first place.’” captimes.com/news/governm...

Tomorrow! Come find us at Open Streets West Broadway. Our booth will be located between Logan and Knox aves, near the western edge of the event.

New study: oil & gas are major killers Oil & gas cause 91,000 air pollution deaths per year, 9,100 pre-term birth incidences/y, 216,000 asthma incidences/y, 1600 cancers/y in US 4,800 deaths/y from extracting & processing fuels 86,200 deaths/y from burning fuels www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Our kids deserve better than this.

One of these "oil majors" is Enbridge, which operates its massive Mainline pipeline system throughout the Upper Midwest and is seeking to rebuild/expand Line 5 in Wisconsin and Michigan. worldoil.com/news/2025/7/...

Minnesota Supreme Court sides with Unicorn Riot in the media organization's fight to protect newsgathering materials from a major oil company looking to use the files to further suppress Indigenous-led opposition to pipeline projects

"In comments to Inside Climate News, the Corps reiterated that it removed the topics of greenhouse gas emissions and climate change from the draft EIS in accordance with the executive orders." insideclimatenews.org/news/1207202...

They FIN-ally did it! A world record setting amount of fish to protest Line 5! wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/sierr...

A sad reminder that even a perfect pipeline monitoring system is only as safe as the people running it. apnews.com/article/oil-...

“Building any new fossil fuel infrastructure is pure negligence during a climate crisis, especially when the bulk of the product in Line 5 goes back to Canada and lines the pocket of a Canadian oil corporation” www.bridgemi.com/michigan-env...

“The only energy ’emergency’ the American people face is Trump’s efforts to disregard clean air and water safeguards in order to rush through dirty, dangerous fossil fuel projects,”-Mahyar Sorour, director of the Sierra Club’s Beyond Fossil Fuels Policy. www.milwaukeeindependent.com/featured/adv...

During the Line 3 pipeline review process in MN, our state agencies seemed to have this idea that "someone else" would consider the climate impacts -- that the responsibility couldn't be on THEM. Surprise: there is no magical climate superhero coming to save us! It's on us all.

“The court’s decision gives agencies a green light to ignore the reasonably foreseeable consequences of their decisions and avoid confronting them,” said Sambhav Sankar, senior vice president of programs at Earthjustice. apnews.com/article/supr...

We're looking forward to folding some fish tonight to help stop Line 5 along with our friends at @sierraclubmn.bsky.social. Come on by, 5-7pm at their office in St. Paul! facebook.com/events/s/fis...

"However, saving Enbridge’s pipeline operations is likely to come at a steep environmental and planetary cost. Spill after spill, decade after decade." thecurrentowdm.substack.com/p/the-line-5...

“Our people have resided in the Bad River watershed for hundreds of years…It’s our homeland…Enbridge is undoubtedly going to destroy and pollute our watershed by trenching, blasting and horizontal drilling across hundreds of upstream wetlands and streams.” wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/05/15/b...

May 5 is the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Relatives We honor the missing and murdered Indigenous relatives whose lives were stolen or remain unaccounted for #MMIWR #NoMoreStolenSisters #JusticeForMMIWG2S #May5 #NationalDayForMMIWR

Happy Line 5 day of action to all celebrating! Today we're calling on Governor Whitmer to do the right thing, stand up for the Great Lakes, and get EGLE to reject the Line 5 oil tunnel permit. Help spread our message and make sure you petition her! #ShutDownLine5

It was a beautiful time celebrating May Day yesterday in Powderhorn Park! We signed 60+ postcards and made numerous calls to protect wild rice and shared in conversations about why we love water and labor #mayday

Letting the Line 5 tunnel project get built would put one-fifth of the world’s available, fresh surface water in harms way. Gov. Whitmer and Michigan’s environmental regulators must protect the Great Lakes and reject this risky oil tunnel. Take action: Urge Gov. Whitmer to reject the permit.

“Any type of oil spill that happens will have a much greater and far-reaching impact than anyone can imagine…I mean, we’re talking about North America’s largest freshwater resource; we’re talking about the clean drinking water for over 40 million Americans.” peoplesworld.org/article/ojib...

Join us TOMORROW morning so our legislators know we are watching, despite the constant back room deals! Show up 10-15 minutes early so we can welcome our legislators with good messages to PROTECT WILD RICE. #mnleg

Thank you to the Northfield Earth Day crew for having us at such an awesome event on Saturday! Protecting wild rice + stopping oil pipelines = a healthier earth for us all. We loved the connections and conversation!

“We are going to focus on the state processes that are still functioning here in Michigan, rather than a dysfunctional and dishonest federal process.” www.wvpe.org/michigan-pub...

It was so wonderful meeting you. Thanks for being an advocate for Minnesota’s natural resources! #mnleg

This week, a group of us met with @sandrafeistmn.bsky.social. We thanked her for being a Prove it First legislative champion and for opposing the Felony Free Speech provisions in HF7.

We had an AMAZING day on Saturday--an estimated 10-15k in attendance--THANK YOU TO ALL who joined us to fight for a people's Earth Day! Grateful to our dear friends at the Climate Justice Committee and everyone else on the host committee with us for collaborating to pull off something big.

REMINDER: Join us tomorrow in Saint Paul as we march for a People’s Earth Day! While politicians cave to false solutions to the climate crisis, now is the time to build a movement that fights like our futures depend on it. Hope to see you there!

This is a MESS -- Enbridge, the same company behind the Line 3 tar sands pipeline and its construction failures, wants to tunnel under the Great Lakes. No Straits tunnel, shut down Line 5! www.freep.com/story/opinio...

Another oil spill is (sadly) another reminder of our work to #ShutDownLine5.

Three Waters PRT is proud to join the People’s Earth Day Coalition, in partnership with the Climate Justice Committee and others. The Climate Crisis is already here: let’s FIGHT for a People’s Earth Day! Join us April 19 in Saint Paul.

When pipelines spill, they spill SO much. pipelinefighters.org/news/keyston...

Pipelines leak. The amount of oil spilled is unknown, it was in a field not a waterway, so is hopefully contained. www.kvrr.com/2025/04/08/k... #pipelines

Ah yes, the "heard a bang" leak detection system: "An employee working at the site near Fort Ransom heard a “mechanical bang” and shut down the pipeline" All pipelines leak! Keep it shut down, keep tar sands in the ground. www.wdbj7.com/2025/04/08/k...

Absolutely incredible turn out at MN State Capitol! #HandsOff

Minnesota -- send an email to your legislator today. Pipeline companies should pay to remove old pipelines if that's what landowners want! actionnetwork.org/letters/2025...

Wild that in MN, pipeline companies don't have to remove old pipelines when they're shut down, even if the landowner wants them gone! There's a bill at the legislature that would fix this -- send a message to your reps in support (easy action): actionnetwork.org/letters/2025...

Minnesota's Community Solar Gardens program (which has been a huge success!) is under threat this year at the legislature‼️ We should be building MORE community solar rather than fossil fuel infrastructure like pipelines! Write to your reps: oursunourpower.com/state/minnes...

The Army Corps of Engineers is using the Trump exec order declaring an “energy emergency” to fast-track of the Line 5 Enbridge oil project. Six tribes cooperated and provided input that the Corps will likely ignore. The tribes have withdrawn their participation in protest. narf.org/line-5-tunne...

Great Lakes Tribes are pulling out of the federal review of the Line 5 oil tunnel after learning it will likely be fast-tracked for approval. The oil tunnel endangers the source of 40 million peoples’ drinking water - Michigan can still stop it.

I don't want to say I told you so, but I told you so. (Link in the next post; Line 5 feed this refinery). @owdm.bsky.social @cleanwatermi.bsky.social @miclimateaction.bsky.social @sierraclub.org www.reuters.com/business/env...