Featured photo: Winona LaDuke, www.honorearth.org
Honor the Earth executive director Winona LaDuke submitted a report to The Nation magazine last week.
“Enbridge, the largest pipeline company in the world, is hell-bent on jamming through their Line 3 Pipeline, the company’s most massive project, under the cover of this Covid winter as fast as they can—before we can stop them and before the world takes notice […],” wrote LaDuke.
“Then there’s the armed forces, the Sheriffs, the DNR—Minnesota Department of Natural Resources—who have deployed here. Their wages are paid by Enbridge. That’s because Minnesota noted the $38 million bill for Standing Rock, and decided just to pay in advance. A Canadian corporation paying for the police in Minnesota. It looks like an occupation. It feels like an occupation. With all the violence that entails.”
An annual ski race in Wisconsin, the American Birkebeiner, dropped Enbridge Energy as a sponsor after outcry from the community.
In a statement released by the ABSF, officials shared that with their “commitment to Birkie Green,” they had hoped that “as a community we could collectively create change, over time, toward less reliance on fossil fuels in our everyday lives.”
With this in mind, the ABSF stated that they had to “reconsider our relationship with Enbridge Energy and have chosen to dissolve our agreement,” citing the inherent contradictions between such an agreement and their Birkie Green initiatives.
