Three Waters Pipeline Resistance Team

OWDM Responds to U.S. Army Corps Approval of Line 5 Reroute in Wisconsin. Tribal sovereignty and treaty rights remain under threat

While the reroute proposal may remove a portion of the pipeline from tribal lands, the permit fails to address the broader problem: this decision allows continued potential impacts on Bad River Band lands and reliance on a decades-old pipeline carrying millions of gallons of crude oil and natural-gas liquids daily through sensitive ecosystems in the Great Lakes Basin. It signals a troubling pattern of fast-tracked fossil-fuel infrastructure approvals that prioritize corporate interests...

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.

The training is free, though space is limited. Breakfast and lunch provided each day. Sign up here: movement-to-end-fossil-fuels.solidarity.tech/mn-end-fossi...

This training will kick off a new Minnesota-based campaign to Shut Down the Enbridge Mainline, an ambitious long term effort to build a future free from fossil fuels. We’ll also feature opportunities to make connections for building shared power between the fight for climate and immigrant rights.

End Fossil Fuels November 7-9 Minneapolis

‼️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!

A Three Waters member stands at a table at the Midtown Farmers Market

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.

Three Waters’ members talk to attendees at Open Streets.

Three Waters members talk to attendees at Sun Day of Action.

Children play with bubbles at Sun Day.

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.☀️☀️☀️

In the Wake of the Black Snake: Line 3 Four Years Later Join Three Waters Pipeline Resistance Team for a discussion about the impacts of Enbridge's Line 3 Pipeline - four years after construction was completed.

📌 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

Oil and water: What happens next in the fight over Line 5? The Wisconsin DNR has OK’d Enbridge’s plans to reroute Line 5 around the Bad River Reservation, but environmentalists and tribes want the line shut down.

“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.

The health burden and racial-ethnic disparities of air pollution from the major oil and gas lifecycle stages in the United States Largest total population health burden is from O&G end-use, but greatest relative disparities are linked to downstream activities.

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.

The reason for pulling out? A net zero emissions strategy "would require them to stop developing new oil and gas fields.”

They don’t care about us or the climate!

Oil majors exit global net zero standard-setting group Shell, Aker BP and Enbridge have all left the SBTi, the leading global standard setter for corporate climate targets. The retreat started late last year after the companies were told that a net zero e...

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

Michigan Environmental Groups Argue Line 5 Tunnel Project Lacks Key Climate Considerations - Inside Climate News Groups submitting comments on the latest stage of the Line 5 oil pipeline project in Michigan argue the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has failed to complete adequate analyses of climate change impacts ...

"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...

Sierra Club, eco groups break record for world’s largest display of origami fish to protest Line 5 • Wisconsin Examiner The Sierra Club unveiled more than 70,000 origami fish as part of a protest against Enbridge's Line 5 oil pipeline in northern Wisconsin.

They FIN-ally did it! A world record setting amount of fish to protest Line 5!

wisconsinexaminer.com/briefs/sierr...

NTSB says company failed to shut down oil pipeline for nearly 13 hours after pressure dropped The National Transportation Safety Board says roughly 1.1 million gallons of crude oil spilled from a pipeline into the Gulf of Mexico in November 2023 because operators failed to shut it down for nea...

A sad reminder that even a perfect pipeline monitoring system is only as safe as the people running it.

apnews.com/article/oil-...

Line 5 tunnel fans, foes plead case amid Army Corps permit deliberations | Bridge Michigan Federal officials are preparing to decide whether to grant a key permit for the tunnel, which would house a replacement section of the Line 5 petroleum pipeline.

“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...

Advocates warn fast-tracking of Line 5 tunnel project threatens Wisconsin’s Lake Superior watershed | Milwaukee Independent

“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.

Supreme Court scales back a key environmental law in a ruling that could speed development projects The Supreme Court has backed a multibillion-dollar oil railroad expansion in Utah in a ruling that scales back a key environmental law and could speed development projects around the country.

“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!

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The Line 5 Death Trap Decades of spills, warnings ignored. Are we really born to run this risk again?

"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...

Bad River Band argues against federal permit for Line 5 reroute • Wisconsin Examiner Two days of public testimony over the reroute of Enbridge Line 5 focused on concerns about the pipeline's environmental impacts.

“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