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July 12, 2018

Indigenous Camp on Canada-U.S. Border Takes Aim at "Line 3" Pipeline
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And in Manitoba, Canada, First Nations activists have set up an
indigenous prayer camp near the U.S. border in a bid to stop
construction of the Enbridge Line 3 oil pipeline. The proposed line
would carry tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to a terminal in
Superior, Wisconsin. On Wednesday, activists opened the Spirit of the
Buffalo camp near the city of Gretna, south of Winnipeg, within sight of
a construction crew operating across the border in North Dakota. In a
statement, members of the group invited protesters to join their efforts
to stop the pipeline, calling it a direct violation of the United
Nations Declaration of Indigenous Peoples' Rights, and adding, "The camp
also calls for an end to tar sands expansion and infrastructure that
will lock humanity into future carbon emissions the planet cannot afford
in the face of climate change."


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