Submit a Comment on the Line 3 Pipeline

The Line 3 pipeline in the Great Lakes region would bring tar sands from Alberta, Canada to market -- violating Indigenous rights and dramatically increasing production at a time when we must transition to 100% renewables.

While the fight continues in the Minnesota courts, there are still outstanding federal permits that are needed to move this project forward. We have one month left collect a huge number of public comments demanding the Army Corps of Engineers deny federal permits for the Line 3 tar sands pipeline.

Momentum is on our side and we need to keep up the pressure. Last week, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz and Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan decided to continue the state's legal challenge of the Line 3 tar sands pipeline. This is a huge victory made possible by people like you who spoke out.

We must show that there is a vocal majority across the country who oppose this dirty energy project.

Demand that the Army Corps of Engineers honor scientific facts and treaty rights and reject the Line 3 permit. Your comments will be sent directly to the Army Corps comment inbox.

To the Army Corps of Engineers:

I’m writing to request that you deny permits for the Enbridge Line 3 project.

The Line 3 project would have a significant and untenable impact on water resources and cultural resources, including wild rice.

The dismal track record of the pipeline industry, and Enbridge in particular, shows that this project poses a serious risk to water and wetlands resources along the pipeline route. It is not a question of if a hazardous liquids pipeline will spill, but when.

A recent Greenpeace report found that Enbridge and its joint ventures and subsidiaries reported 307 hazardous liquids incidents to federal regulators from 2002 to present — one incident every 20 days on average. These spills released a total of 66,059 barrels (2.8 million gallons, or more than four Olympic-sized swimming pools) of hazardous liquids. Thirty of those incidents were reported to contaminate water resources, including 17 which contaminated groundwater.

Enbridge pipelines have also seen some of the largest pipeline spills in American history, including a 40,000 barrel spill in 1991 in Grand Rapids, MN, and a 20,000 barrel spill into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan in 2010.

The path of this pipeline also crosses sensitive wild rice beds in the 1855 treaty territory of the Anishinaabe people. Wild rice is an important cultural and subsistence resource for the Anishinaabe (Ojibwe) people that are at risk from Line 3.

For these reasons, the permits for the Line 3 project should be rejected.

Additionally, I would like to request public hearings to be held throughout Minnesota, including hearings located on the Tribal Reservations whose treaty lands would be crossed by the Line 3 project.

Finally, because of the size and impacts of this project, I would also like to request a federal environmental impact statement under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA.)

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Submit a Comment on the Line 3 Pipeline

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