This pipeline would add 50 new coal plants’ worth of climate emissions
In the “land of 10,000 lakes,” Enbridge is rushing to build a pipeline that would be disastrous for water quality, ecosystems and our climate.
We need to stop this pipeline.
Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline in Minnesota crosses more than 800 wetlands and 200 bodies of water — including hundreds of essential U.S. water sources.1
The Line 3 pipeline is an oil spill waiting to happen — and President Biden has the power to shut it down before it starts operating.
We need your help to convince the Biden administration to protect water quality and our planet from dangerous pollution.
This pipeline carries fossil fuels from the “world’s most destructive oil operation”.
The Line 3 pipeline carries fossil fuels from the “world’s most destructive oil operation”: Tar sands oil. Shipped in from Alberta, tar sands oil is retrieved by clear-cutting the beautiful boreal forest, drilling for oil in the soil, and creating huge toxic waste ponds in the process.2
The fuel the pipeline would carry is so dirty that Enbridge’s Line 3 would add 50 coal plants worth of greenhouse gas emissions to the atmosphere.3
At a time when we desperately need to transition to renewable energy, the Trump administration approved this tar sands pipeline in its final weeks — despite the fact that the pipeline would cut through and pollute Indigenous territories protected by treaties.4
Together we can protect water quality, ecosystems and our planet from Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline.
The Biden administration has committed to tackling climate change — and we need to hold the administration to that promise by convincing it to shut down this tar sands pipeline. We shouldn’t be doubling down on oil infrastructure when we have cleaner, renewable energy options available to us.
Indigenous leaders have been campaigning against the Line 3 pipeline for years — and we know it won’t be easy to shut it down. That’s why we need as many voices as possible calling on the Biden administration to protect water quality, ecosystems and our planet from Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline.
- Samir Ferdowski, “The Oil Pipeline Battle No One is Talking About,” Vice News, February 3, 2021.
- Stephen Leahy, “This is the world’s most destructive oil operation–and it’s growing,” National Geographic, April 11, 2019.
- Samir Ferdowski, “The Oil Pipeline Battle No One is Talking About,” Vice News, February 3, 2021.
- Sheila Regan, “‘It’s cultural genocide’: inside the fight to stop a pipeline on tribal lands,” The Guardian, February 19, 2021.