Line 3 Pipeline & the fight to protect the Water

Over the month of Oct I was commissioned to put together a video in partnership with Samantha Cooper a Singer/Song Writer and Activist. I created the music below to the song “Let the Wave” by Samantha to pay tribute to all Water Protectors and to raise awareness about about the pipeline.

Tar Sands oil is flowing…but the fight isn’t over

PIPELINE UPDATE FROM Dec 2021 AND OCT 2022

The pipeline is officially flowing oil, yet the battle to stop Line 3 continues. Legal battles are ongoing, and actions are taking place all over the state from outside banks, at politicians’ homes, at government buildings, & at drill/pump stations in northern Minnesota.

There continue to be frack-out spills and other chemicals poisoning the water where Enbridge construction of the line went through critical and sensitive wetlands and Wild Rise lakes.

Around Oct 1Oth, hundreds of activists, indigenous elders, and allies arrived in DC demanding climate justice and an end to Line 3. They arrived on Indigenous Peoples Day (2021) and over 500 people were arrested.

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  1. Pipeline construction work directly connects missing, and murdered Indigenous women #MMIWat least four Enbridge construction workers have been arrested for sex trafficking. This pipeline is literally killing Indigenous people. 

  2. Tar sand oil is the dirtiest sand in the world and emits over 90 million tons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, equivalent to the daily emissions of 16-18 million cars. 

  3. Along with the CO2 emitting into the atmosphere, it has a massive chance of spilling and leaking poison into the 200+ waterways this pipeline is going through. A spill could poison 80% of the US's fresh water. There have been 9+ frackouts in waterways and chemical spills in wetlands already. 

  4. This pipeline is being built through indigenous treaty land. Treaties have the supreme law of the land according to the US Constitution. Native nations have openly opposed this pipeline going through their land, yet their voices are not being listened to. And they are being arrested, harmed, and attacked for defending their land. 

  5. A foreign nation, Canada, has a corporation coming into the USA and taking over 5 billion gallons of water from the state of MN to build this pipeline, all while MN is in an extreme drought. 

  6. Wild rice is a critical crop for many indigenous communities and the economy of part of Minnesota. The pipeline construction is draining wild rice lakes and has a high chance of poisoning the water that the rice grows in. Line 3 along Enbridge's preferred route would/is impacting 389 acres of wild rice in 17 wild rice waterbodies.

  7. Enbridge is also paying off US police forces to defend this pipeline, making them a hired private security force. This foreign nation has US Police attacking, brutalizing, arresting, tear gassing, rubber bulleting, and harassing its citizens. 

    1. Read about this HERE: The Guardian.com

  8. This pipeline is going from Canada through MN to be exported to China. This oil isn't clean enough to be used for cars and has no benefits to the US economy. It's a dying form of energy that many companies and corporations are divesting from. This new pipeline is being built to line the corporation's pockets, squeezing a few pennies out of this oil before it's abandoned.

Testimonials from the Front Line

JAKE SPOTTED WOLF

"That the trafficking and exploitation of Indigenous people- mostly women, teen girls and boys, all along pipelines in this country wasn't the end of the discussion is baffling.
Wildfires are burning at faster rates in the U.S. then ever before. Flooding is happening in places that have never seen floods. Record high temps in the PNW, Siberia and throughout the globe. Record droughts in areas where rivers and lakes used to flourish.
The money that American citizens think will come to local economies is a fever dream at best. Enbridge is a foreign company. The oil from these pipelines will be shipped overseas. Pipeline workers are transient and send their money back to the communities they live in across state lines-- not in the states where locals voted the pipelines because they thought it would pump money into the economy for years to come.
So the land will be destroyed by rising temperatures caused by carbon emissions produced by the oil to come from these pipelines. Children and women will be tortured and murdered.
Local water supplies will be destroyed beyond repair for years to come." - Jaike Spotted Wolf

Please donate to this amazing front line activist / water protector who is putting her body on the line and who gave up of her time and energy to share this with us:
Venmo: @Jaike-SpottedWolf
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Chiara (Sunshine) is a Karankwan native who grew up reading that their people were gone, killed out. She has been on a journey of healing, learning their culture, language, and traditions, and doing her part to protect what little is left of the Karankwan people. Follow her HERE: karankawachicharra and follow and support the movement in the gulf here: Indigenous Peoples 360

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