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White Earth chairman Michael Fairbanks joins Jane Fonda who came to stand against Line 3 on June 7 at Mississippi River crossing near Solway, MN (Photo by Mary Annette Pember, Indian Country Today)
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Celebrities urge President Biden to stop Line 3
A letter signed by over 200 celebrities, Democratic donors, Indigenous environmental activists and allies urging President Biden to shut down construction of Enbridge Line 3 was delivered to the White House on Wednesday.
Actor Mark Ruffalo moderated a press call about the letter in which he and others urged the Biden administration to follow through with its promises to reduce the country’s reliance on fossil fuel, address climate change and support Indigenous rights.
Winona LaDuke reminded Biden that Indigenous voters played a key role in his successful election. “I drove people to the polls for you, Joe; many were first time voters,” she said during the call. LaDuke, a citizen of the White Earth Band of Ojibwe, is executive director of Honor the Earth, an Indigenous environmental activist group based in Minnesota.
Ruffalo said, “I call upon the President and the Army Corps of Engineers to suspend and thoroughly review the permit for the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline, a massive project that would not only intensify the climate crisis but violates the treaty rights of tribal nations.”
In a June 24 court filing, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers urged a federal judge to deny a request by pipeline opponents to reverse its permit supporting construction of the pipeline, effectively supporting a Trump era decision.
The letter highlights the negative impacts of the pipeline on the rights and lifeways of Indigenous people, including endangering wild rice habitat and cultural resources.
“The time to deliver on the promise of a safe climate and good jobs in a clean energy-powered economy is the next 8 years. But the time-the only time to keep hope alive by preventing fossil fuel commitments that would foreclose that bright prospect is right now,” the letter read.
It was signed by Mark Ruffalo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Katy Perry, Joaquin Phoenix, Danny Glover, Jane Fonda, Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, Buffy Sainte-Marie and others.
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