FREE TEACH-IN: Fighting Canadian Fossil Fuel Infrastructures in the “US” and “Canada”

FREE TEACH-IN: Fighting Canadian Fossil Fuel Infrastructures in the “US” and “Canada” En français plus bas. Come learn about different anti Enbridge pipeline fights with experts, activists, and indigenous organizers from the US and Canada. We will brainstorm ways we can work together in alignment on both sides of the colonial border moving forward to phase out existing fossil fuel infrastructure and to ensure no more Enbridge pipelines are built. Enbridge’s pipelines are connected, our struggles should be too. SPEAKERS: Taysha Martineau and Giiwedan Howard from Stop Line 3 (by zoom) Tessine Murji from Sierra Club Chicago Carley Dove-McFalls from Lachez les grandes eaux Michelle Woodhouse from Environmental Defence Canada Lily Cason from Divest McGill Greg Mikkelson from Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy Alain Mignault from Collectif scientifique sur les enjeux énergétiques au Québec DURATION:: 2h30 DETAILS Enbridge is a Canadian company with the largest pipeline system in the world. Some of its pipelines bring petroleum products, often bitumen, from tar sands in Alberta to the US and then back to Canada. Enbridge is responsible for the worst spill on soil in North American history with its Line 6A in the Kalamazoo River, Michigan in 2010. The consequences for human health and biodiversity have been horrible. Line 3 is a 1,765 km pipeline carrying oil from Edmonton in Alberta to Superior, Wisconsin. Enbridge has recently expanded this line through the territory of Anishinaabe peoples, crossing untouched wetlands through the Mississippi River headwaters to the shore of Lake Superior. The opposition to this project was fierce and Enbridge has paid the police to repress water protectors. Unfortunately, it has completed its expansion. Line 5 is 1,035 km pipeline passing through northern Wisconsin and Michigan, including under the Straits of Mackinac, the most sensitive parts of the Great Lakes, before crossing into Ontario at Sarnia. All federally recognized tribes along the Straits and the The Chippewa community of Bad River in Wisconsin, also Anishinaabe peoples, have been fighting Enbridge’s Line 5. Enbridge proposed a new route which is unacceptable. Line 5 lays at the bottom of the Straits where there are cultural heritage sites for the Anishnaabe people and where the pipeline has been struck several times by boat anchors. The governor of Michigan has ordered its shutdown. With the help of the Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mélanie Joly, Enbridge is fighting this order in court. Invoking a 1977 US-Canada pipeline treaty, Enbridge has won a first battle, but this is not over. Line 9 is a 839 km pipeline going from Sarnia, Ontario to Montreal. It is going through the territory of several Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee (Mohawk) peoples. The direction of its flux has been reversed in 2015 when Justin Trudeau was in Paris pretending to be a climate leader. This reversal has made it possible to expand tar sands oil production. Opposition was intense. The Chippewas of the Thames have battled it up to the Supreme Court only to be rebuffed. Several water protectors have repeatedly shut down its flow. Citizens struggle now to increase water safety, expose Enbridge spills and work towards a Line 9 shut down. Enbridge’s pipelines are a threat to drinking water of millions of people in the US and Canada, a threat to health, to the climate and to biodiversity. If we join together on Turtle Island, we can shut them all down. Line 3 opposition: https://www.stopline3.org/ Line 5 opposition: https://www.sierraclub.org/wisconsin/line-5 https://linktr.ee/lachezlesgrandeseaux Line 9 opposition: https://environmentaldefence.ca/.../enbridge-line-5.../ https://www.facebook.com/CollAntigone https://www.facebook.com/FermonsLePipeline9B https://www.facebook.com/lescitoyensaucourant https://linktr.ee/DivestMcGill https://climatejusticemontreal.ca/home = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =