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Check out photos from the Saturday, October 19 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Climb for United Way Student Climb and Public Climb. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Check out photos from the Saturday, October 19 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Climb for United Way Student Climb and Public Climb. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Check out photos from the Saturday, October 19 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Climb for United Way Student Climb and Public Climb. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Duluth, Minnesota
September 27, 2019
A few hundred people gathered on the shore of Gichi-gami (Lake Superior) to protest the proposed Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
After a rally and speakers, they marched along the Gichi-gami shore then held a gathering at Lake Place Park had food, art, workshops, and music.
The proposed Line 3 pipeline would transport oil from Canada across Minnesota to Superior, Wisconsin. Protesters say the pipeline would have the climate change impact of 50 coal power plants.
This September, the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to take up challenges by tribal and conservation groups to the pipeline environmental review. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission is now in the process of finishing the environmental review.
2019-09-28 This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Give attribution to: Fibonacci Blue
Check out photos from the Thursday, October 17 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Climb for United Way Corporate Challenge 1, Invitational Climb and Presidential Challenge. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway
Check out photos from the Sunday, October 20, 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Corporate Challenge 2. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Check out photos from the Sunday, October 20, 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Corporate Challenge 2. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines by Winona LaDuke
Updated about a week ago
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines Winona LaDuke
Manoominike Giizis, it is the Wild Rice Making Moon. As the wild rice ripens in Northern Minnesota, a huge battle ground of tribal communities, landowners, the state of Minnesota and the largest pipeline company in the world begins. It is a clash of cultures, and pits money and oil against Native people and wild rice. In the next two weeks, public hearings, a wild rice harvest, a traditional spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will make their way along the proposed route. “ The hearings will move the direction of the oil ,or where it is proposed to run, the horse ride and canoe journey will move against the current of the oil, in a third year of a spiritual journey for the wild rice and future generations.” Frank Bibeau , attorney for Honor the Earth explains . Honor the Earth’s Love Water not Oil campaign continues, this hear with the third annual Spiritual horse ride on August 25, including Anishinaabe tribal members as well as Lakota leaders from the Pine Ridge reservation who have been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. They will be joined by other non Native allies on horse back and on canoe.
The Enbridge Company is proposing to move l. 4 million barrels of new oil across the best wild rice lakes in the world, in a new set of proposals involving up to 760,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil and 640,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken fields.
This past week, the first hearing on the proposals was held in the Rice Lake community, one of the two most impacted native communities by the proposed Line 3 and Sandpiper routes. Forty or more tribal members testified, reaffirming what the state and pipeline company already know: The Ojibwe stand opposed to any oil pipelines crossing the reservation, or the l855 treaty area, and this position is supported by all the tribes in Minnesota, the Great Lakes and the National Congress of American Indians. The fact is, that every proposal to move tar sands or fracked oil has to run through Native people, and in Minnesota, this will be a problem.
At the same time as the Enbridge drama unfolds, the l855 Treaty Authority of the Ojibwe, notified Minnesota Governor Dayton of the tribal wild rice harvest in the 1855 treaty territory, informing him that tribal members would continue to harvest without any permits from the state. Archie LaRose, Chair of the Treaty Authority, pointed out the state’s mismanagement of the territory, and the most recent crash of the Mille Lacs walleye fishery, state proposals to gut sulfate standards, limit protection of wild rice lakes , and the PUC process on the four pipelines proposing to cross northern Minnesota and Ojibwe or Anishinaabe reservations and treaty territories. The state of Minnesota has promised to arrest Ojibwes for harvesting wild rice.
“ We find it ironic that the state of Minnesota would arrest and confiscate canoes and wild rice from Ojibwe people , yet refuses to protect this very rice from the pollutants of the mining and oil industry,” Frank Bibeau attorney for Honor the Earth and the l855 Treaty Commission told reporters. Tribal governments have been very frustrated with the state process, as the state PUC scrambles with four pipeline proposals and one proposal to abandon an aging line with some “structural anomalies”. A structural anomaly is what caused the Kalamazoo spill of 2010, and at least two more 50 year old lines (like the Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinaw) continue to concern most local residents. …Enbridge has gathered extensive integrity data on Line 3 throughout its years of operation. The integrity data shows a high number of integrity anomalies – specifically, corrosion and long seam cracking. Because of its integrity anomalies, Line 3 has experienced a number of failures during its more than 50-year history ( from Enbridge briefing notes).
After requesting government to government discussions, and being pushed aside by the state agency, Honor the Earth Executive Director Winona LaDuke, pointed out, “ This is 2015 not l889. Native people need to be treated as first class citizens not third class enemy combatents. ”In response to the state not releasing critical information, tribal governments held their own environmental impact hearings, with findings to be released by the Mille Lacs band in the upcoming month.
In the meantime, a spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will be underway beginning in Rice Lake refuge on August 25, the same time as many environmental groups join together to protest at Department of State Representative John Kerry’s house, in particular, focused on one of these pipelines, the 880,000 barrels per day, Enbridge Alberta Clipper, which needs State Department action. The federal lawsuit on this case, White Earth Band of Ojibwe versus John Kerry will be heard in Federal Court in Minneapolis on September l0.
“The fact is that if a Canadian corporation can successfully secure eminent domain rights over the land of American farmers, we have a constitutional problem,” Bibeau said referring to the Enbridge Sandpiper case, and North Dakota farmer James Botsford’s attempt to avert the pipeline from his land. In terms of the Alberta Clipper case, the Tribe and a number of environmental organizations point out that the Enbridge Company is proceeding with moving oil, without an environmental impact statement.
The problem is large in scope , as Honor the Earth’s LaDuke testified at the hearing in Rice Lake, “The Enbridge Company … has wished to only account for the carbon used to power the transportation of the oil through the pipelines it is providing for the extreme extraction process.… We reject this suggestion as self serving and inaccurate. Responsibility for the total carbon footprint… would be required to be considered. It is as if we are saying that, those who operated the railroads to the gas chambers were not complicit in the Jewish Holocaust, but instead, only the SS which administered the gas, would be liable. That is preposterous. These pipelines constitute the railroad to the gas chambers of climate change…” Conservative estimates of carbon emissions from Line 3 and the Sandpiper, are calculated at 125,737,313 metric tons annually in the “well to wheels” impact. As Ojibwe wild ricer Dennis Jackson waited patiently for his time to testify at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing in Rice Lake, he listened to a lot of testimony and presentations. Every month, the story seems to get bigger, and the process more confusing.
Dennis was the 25th or so person to testify. He walked up to the front of the room with a cell phone and scrolled to a picture. The picture was Dennis’ 2013 harvest of 700 pounds of wild rice or manoomin from Rice Lake in his canoe. A canoe full of rice. That is a snapshot of this story, and the story of the wild rice. As Honor the Earth explained in testimony to the PUC, “…Let us be clear, this is the only place in the world where there are Anishinaabeg and this is the only place in the world where there is wild rice. We understand that, and fully intend to protect both ...”
Photos by littleredfeatherdesign.com for "Love Water Not Oil," tour. www.honorearth.org
No permission granted to use photos without permission, and must be credited to photographer and Honor the Earth.
On September 21, 2014, thousands of Canadians came together in Vancouver in solidarity with over 300,000 in New York City for the People's Climate March.
UPDATE: October 17, 2014 - you can help: consider making a small donation to stop the Enbridge Northern Gateway by supporting some of BC's First Nations' legal challenges to the project: fundraise.raventrust.com/ourCanada
Duluth, Minnesota
September 27, 2019
A few hundred people gathered on the shore of Gichi-gami (Lake Superior) to protest the proposed Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
After a rally and speakers, they marched along the Gichi-gami shore then held a gathering at Lake Place Park had food, art, workshops, and music.
The proposed Line 3 pipeline would transport oil from Canada across Minnesota to Superior, Wisconsin. Protesters say the pipeline would have the climate change impact of 50 coal power plants.
This September, the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to take up challenges by tribal and conservation groups to the pipeline environmental review. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission is now in the process of finishing the environmental review.
2019-09-28 This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Give attribution to: Fibonacci Blue
Duluth, Minnesota
September 27, 2019
A few hundred people gathered on the shore of Gichi-gami (Lake Superior) to protest the proposed Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
After a rally and speakers, they marched along the Gichi-gami shore then held a gathering at Lake Place Park had food, art, workshops, and music.
The proposed Line 3 pipeline would transport oil from Canada across Minnesota to Superior, Wisconsin. Protesters say the pipeline would have the climate change impact of 50 coal power plants.
This September, the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to take up challenges by tribal and conservation groups to the pipeline environmental review. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission is now in the process of finishing the environmental review.
2019-09-28 This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Give attribution to: Fibonacci Blue
Check out photos from the Sunday, October 20, 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Corporate Challenge 2. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Check out photos from the Saturday, October 19 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Climb for United Way Student Climb and Public Climb. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Check out photos from the Saturday, October 19 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Climb for United Way Student Climb and Public Climb. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
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Duluth, Minnesota
September 27, 2019
A few hundred people gathered on the shore of Gichi-gami (Lake Superior) to protest the proposed Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
After a rally and speakers, they marched along the Gichi-gami shore then held a gathering at Lake Place Park had food, art, workshops, and music.
The proposed Line 3 pipeline would transport oil from Canada across Minnesota to Superior, Wisconsin. Protesters say the pipeline would have the climate change impact of 50 coal power plants.
This September, the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to take up challenges by tribal and conservation groups to the pipeline environmental review. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission is now in the process of finishing the environmental review.
2019-09-28 This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Give attribution to: Fibonacci Blue
On September 21, 2014, thousands of Canadians came together in Vancouver in solidarity with over 300,000 in New York City for the People's Climate March.
UPDATE: October 17, 2014 - you can help: consider making a small donation to stop the Enbridge Northern Gateway by supporting some of BC's First Nations' legal challenges to the project: fundraise.raventrust.com/ourCanada
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines by Winona LaDuke
Updated about a week ago
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines Winona LaDuke
Manoominike Giizis, it is the Wild Rice Making Moon. As the wild rice ripens in Northern Minnesota, a huge battle ground of tribal communities, landowners, the state of Minnesota and the largest pipeline company in the world begins. It is a clash of cultures, and pits money and oil against Native people and wild rice. In the next two weeks, public hearings, a wild rice harvest, a traditional spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will make their way along the proposed route. “ The hearings will move the direction of the oil ,or where it is proposed to run, the horse ride and canoe journey will move against the current of the oil, in a third year of a spiritual journey for the wild rice and future generations.” Frank Bibeau , attorney for Honor the Earth explains . Honor the Earth’s Love Water not Oil campaign continues, this hear with the third annual Spiritual horse ride on August 25, including Anishinaabe tribal members as well as Lakota leaders from the Pine Ridge reservation who have been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. They will be joined by other non Native allies on horse back and on canoe.
The Enbridge Company is proposing to move l. 4 million barrels of new oil across the best wild rice lakes in the world, in a new set of proposals involving up to 760,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil and 640,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken fields.
This past week, the first hearing on the proposals was held in the Rice Lake community, one of the two most impacted native communities by the proposed Line 3 and Sandpiper routes. Forty or more tribal members testified, reaffirming what the state and pipeline company already know: The Ojibwe stand opposed to any oil pipelines crossing the reservation, or the l855 treaty area, and this position is supported by all the tribes in Minnesota, the Great Lakes and the National Congress of American Indians. The fact is, that every proposal to move tar sands or fracked oil has to run through Native people, and in Minnesota, this will be a problem.
At the same time as the Enbridge drama unfolds, the l855 Treaty Authority of the Ojibwe, notified Minnesota Governor Dayton of the tribal wild rice harvest in the 1855 treaty territory, informing him that tribal members would continue to harvest without any permits from the state. Archie LaRose, Chair of the Treaty Authority, pointed out the state’s mismanagement of the territory, and the most recent crash of the Mille Lacs walleye fishery, state proposals to gut sulfate standards, limit protection of wild rice lakes , and the PUC process on the four pipelines proposing to cross northern Minnesota and Ojibwe or Anishinaabe reservations and treaty territories. The state of Minnesota has promised to arrest Ojibwes for harvesting wild rice.
“ We find it ironic that the state of Minnesota would arrest and confiscate canoes and wild rice from Ojibwe people , yet refuses to protect this very rice from the pollutants of the mining and oil industry,” Frank Bibeau attorney for Honor the Earth and the l855 Treaty Commission told reporters. Tribal governments have been very frustrated with the state process, as the state PUC scrambles with four pipeline proposals and one proposal to abandon an aging line with some “structural anomalies”. A structural anomaly is what caused the Kalamazoo spill of 2010, and at least two more 50 year old lines (like the Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinaw) continue to concern most local residents. …Enbridge has gathered extensive integrity data on Line 3 throughout its years of operation. The integrity data shows a high number of integrity anomalies – specifically, corrosion and long seam cracking. Because of its integrity anomalies, Line 3 has experienced a number of failures during its more than 50-year history ( from Enbridge briefing notes).
After requesting government to government discussions, and being pushed aside by the state agency, Honor the Earth Executive Director Winona LaDuke, pointed out, “ This is 2015 not l889. Native people need to be treated as first class citizens not third class enemy combatents. ”In response to the state not releasing critical information, tribal governments held their own environmental impact hearings, with findings to be released by the Mille Lacs band in the upcoming month.
In the meantime, a spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will be underway beginning in Rice Lake refuge on August 25, the same time as many environmental groups join together to protest at Department of State Representative John Kerry’s house, in particular, focused on one of these pipelines, the 880,000 barrels per day, Enbridge Alberta Clipper, which needs State Department action. The federal lawsuit on this case, White Earth Band of Ojibwe versus John Kerry will be heard in Federal Court in Minneapolis on September l0.
“The fact is that if a Canadian corporation can successfully secure eminent domain rights over the land of American farmers, we have a constitutional problem,” Bibeau said referring to the Enbridge Sandpiper case, and North Dakota farmer James Botsford’s attempt to avert the pipeline from his land. In terms of the Alberta Clipper case, the Tribe and a number of environmental organizations point out that the Enbridge Company is proceeding with moving oil, without an environmental impact statement.
The problem is large in scope , as Honor the Earth’s LaDuke testified at the hearing in Rice Lake, “The Enbridge Company … has wished to only account for the carbon used to power the transportation of the oil through the pipelines it is providing for the extreme extraction process.… We reject this suggestion as self serving and inaccurate. Responsibility for the total carbon footprint… would be required to be considered. It is as if we are saying that, those who operated the railroads to the gas chambers were not complicit in the Jewish Holocaust, but instead, only the SS which administered the gas, would be liable. That is preposterous. These pipelines constitute the railroad to the gas chambers of climate change…” Conservative estimates of carbon emissions from Line 3 and the Sandpiper, are calculated at 125,737,313 metric tons annually in the “well to wheels” impact. As Ojibwe wild ricer Dennis Jackson waited patiently for his time to testify at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing in Rice Lake, he listened to a lot of testimony and presentations. Every month, the story seems to get bigger, and the process more confusing.
Dennis was the 25th or so person to testify. He walked up to the front of the room with a cell phone and scrolled to a picture. The picture was Dennis’ 2013 harvest of 700 pounds of wild rice or manoomin from Rice Lake in his canoe. A canoe full of rice. That is a snapshot of this story, and the story of the wild rice. As Honor the Earth explained in testimony to the PUC, “…Let us be clear, this is the only place in the world where there are Anishinaabeg and this is the only place in the world where there is wild rice. We understand that, and fully intend to protect both ...”
Photos by littleredfeatherdesign.com for "Love Water Not Oil," tour. www.honorearth.org
No permission granted to use photos without permission, and must be credited to photographer and Honor the Earth.
TEAM FINN & RIDERS FOR RYDER-ENBRIDGE RIDE TO CONQUER CANCER BENEFITING THE BC CANCER FOUNDATION
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Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines by Winona LaDuke
Updated about a week ago
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines Winona LaDuke
Manoominike Giizis, it is the Wild Rice Making Moon. As the wild rice ripens in Northern Minnesota, a huge battle ground of tribal communities, landowners, the state of Minnesota and the largest pipeline company in the world begins. It is a clash of cultures, and pits money and oil against Native people and wild rice. In the next two weeks, public hearings, a wild rice harvest, a traditional spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will make their way along the proposed route. “ The hearings will move the direction of the oil ,or where it is proposed to run, the horse ride and canoe journey will move against the current of the oil, in a third year of a spiritual journey for the wild rice and future generations.” Frank Bibeau , attorney for Honor the Earth explains . Honor the Earth’s Love Water not Oil campaign continues, this hear with the third annual Spiritual horse ride on August 25, including Anishinaabe tribal members as well as Lakota leaders from the Pine Ridge reservation who have been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. They will be joined by other non Native allies on horse back and on canoe.
The Enbridge Company is proposing to move l. 4 million barrels of new oil across the best wild rice lakes in the world, in a new set of proposals involving up to 760,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil and 640,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken fields.
This past week, the first hearing on the proposals was held in the Rice Lake community, one of the two most impacted native communities by the proposed Line 3 and Sandpiper routes. Forty or more tribal members testified, reaffirming what the state and pipeline company already know: The Ojibwe stand opposed to any oil pipelines crossing the reservation, or the l855 treaty area, and this position is supported by all the tribes in Minnesota, the Great Lakes and the National Congress of American Indians. The fact is, that every proposal to move tar sands or fracked oil has to run through Native people, and in Minnesota, this will be a problem.
At the same time as the Enbridge drama unfolds, the l855 Treaty Authority of the Ojibwe, notified Minnesota Governor Dayton of the tribal wild rice harvest in the 1855 treaty territory, informing him that tribal members would continue to harvest without any permits from the state. Archie LaRose, Chair of the Treaty Authority, pointed out the state’s mismanagement of the territory, and the most recent crash of the Mille Lacs walleye fishery, state proposals to gut sulfate standards, limit protection of wild rice lakes , and the PUC process on the four pipelines proposing to cross northern Minnesota and Ojibwe or Anishinaabe reservations and treaty territories. The state of Minnesota has promised to arrest Ojibwes for harvesting wild rice.
“ We find it ironic that the state of Minnesota would arrest and confiscate canoes and wild rice from Ojibwe people , yet refuses to protect this very rice from the pollutants of the mining and oil industry,” Frank Bibeau attorney for Honor the Earth and the l855 Treaty Commission told reporters. Tribal governments have been very frustrated with the state process, as the state PUC scrambles with four pipeline proposals and one proposal to abandon an aging line with some “structural anomalies”. A structural anomaly is what caused the Kalamazoo spill of 2010, and at least two more 50 year old lines (like the Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinaw) continue to concern most local residents. …Enbridge has gathered extensive integrity data on Line 3 throughout its years of operation. The integrity data shows a high number of integrity anomalies – specifically, corrosion and long seam cracking. Because of its integrity anomalies, Line 3 has experienced a number of failures during its more than 50-year history ( from Enbridge briefing notes).
After requesting government to government discussions, and being pushed aside by the state agency, Honor the Earth Executive Director Winona LaDuke, pointed out, “ This is 2015 not l889. Native people need to be treated as first class citizens not third class enemy combatents. ”In response to the state not releasing critical information, tribal governments held their own environmental impact hearings, with findings to be released by the Mille Lacs band in the upcoming month.
In the meantime, a spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will be underway beginning in Rice Lake refuge on August 25, the same time as many environmental groups join together to protest at Department of State Representative John Kerry’s house, in particular, focused on one of these pipelines, the 880,000 barrels per day, Enbridge Alberta Clipper, which needs State Department action. The federal lawsuit on this case, White Earth Band of Ojibwe versus John Kerry will be heard in Federal Court in Minneapolis on September l0.
“The fact is that if a Canadian corporation can successfully secure eminent domain rights over the land of American farmers, we have a constitutional problem,” Bibeau said referring to the Enbridge Sandpiper case, and North Dakota farmer James Botsford’s attempt to avert the pipeline from his land. In terms of the Alberta Clipper case, the Tribe and a number of environmental organizations point out that the Enbridge Company is proceeding with moving oil, without an environmental impact statement.
The problem is large in scope , as Honor the Earth’s LaDuke testified at the hearing in Rice Lake, “The Enbridge Company … has wished to only account for the carbon used to power the transportation of the oil through the pipelines it is providing for the extreme extraction process.… We reject this suggestion as self serving and inaccurate. Responsibility for the total carbon footprint… would be required to be considered. It is as if we are saying that, those who operated the railroads to the gas chambers were not complicit in the Jewish Holocaust, but instead, only the SS which administered the gas, would be liable. That is preposterous. These pipelines constitute the railroad to the gas chambers of climate change…” Conservative estimates of carbon emissions from Line 3 and the Sandpiper, are calculated at 125,737,313 metric tons annually in the “well to wheels” impact. As Ojibwe wild ricer Dennis Jackson waited patiently for his time to testify at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing in Rice Lake, he listened to a lot of testimony and presentations. Every month, the story seems to get bigger, and the process more confusing.
Dennis was the 25th or so person to testify. He walked up to the front of the room with a cell phone and scrolled to a picture. The picture was Dennis’ 2013 harvest of 700 pounds of wild rice or manoomin from Rice Lake in his canoe. A canoe full of rice. That is a snapshot of this story, and the story of the wild rice. As Honor the Earth explained in testimony to the PUC, “…Let us be clear, this is the only place in the world where there are Anishinaabeg and this is the only place in the world where there is wild rice. We understand that, and fully intend to protect both ...”
Photos by littleredfeatherdesign.com for "Love Water Not Oil," tour. www.honorearth.org
No permission granted to use photos without permission, and must be credited to photographer and Honor the Earth.
Gichi-gami Gathering to Stop Line 3
Duluth, Minnesota
September 27, 2019
A few hundred people gathered on the shore of Gichi-gami (Lake Superior) to protest the proposed Enbridge Line 3 tar sands pipeline.
After a rally and speakers, they marched along the Gichi-gami shore then held a gathering at Lake Place Park had food, art, workshops, and music.
The proposed Line 3 pipeline would transport oil from Canada across Minnesota to Superior, Wisconsin. Protesters say the pipeline would have the climate change impact of 50 coal power plants.
This September, the Minnesota Supreme Court declined to take up challenges by tribal and conservation groups to the pipeline environmental review. The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission is now in the process of finishing the environmental review.
2019-09-28 This is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License. Give attribution to: Fibonacci Blue
TEAM FINN & RIDERS FOR RYDER-ENBRIDGE RIDE TO CONQUER CANCER BENEFITING THE BC CANCER FOUNDATION
JOIN US ON TWITTER FOR RIDE TO CONQUER CANCER COVERAGE
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Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines by Winona LaDuke
Updated about a week ago
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines Winona LaDuke
Manoominike Giizis, it is the Wild Rice Making Moon. As the wild rice ripens in Northern Minnesota, a huge battle ground of tribal communities, landowners, the state of Minnesota and the largest pipeline company in the world begins. It is a clash of cultures, and pits money and oil against Native people and wild rice. In the next two weeks, public hearings, a wild rice harvest, a traditional spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will make their way along the proposed route. “ The hearings will move the direction of the oil ,or where it is proposed to run, the horse ride and canoe journey will move against the current of the oil, in a third year of a spiritual journey for the wild rice and future generations.” Frank Bibeau , attorney for Honor the Earth explains . Honor the Earth’s Love Water not Oil campaign continues, this hear with the third annual Spiritual horse ride on August 25, including Anishinaabe tribal members as well as Lakota leaders from the Pine Ridge reservation who have been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. They will be joined by other non Native allies on horse back and on canoe.
The Enbridge Company is proposing to move l. 4 million barrels of new oil across the best wild rice lakes in the world, in a new set of proposals involving up to 760,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil and 640,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken fields.
This past week, the first hearing on the proposals was held in the Rice Lake community, one of the two most impacted native communities by the proposed Line 3 and Sandpiper routes. Forty or more tribal members testified, reaffirming what the state and pipeline company already know: The Ojibwe stand opposed to any oil pipelines crossing the reservation, or the l855 treaty area, and this position is supported by all the tribes in Minnesota, the Great Lakes and the National Congress of American Indians. The fact is, that every proposal to move tar sands or fracked oil has to run through Native people, and in Minnesota, this will be a problem.
At the same time as the Enbridge drama unfolds, the l855 Treaty Authority of the Ojibwe, notified Minnesota Governor Dayton of the tribal wild rice harvest in the 1855 treaty territory, informing him that tribal members would continue to harvest without any permits from the state. Archie LaRose, Chair of the Treaty Authority, pointed out the state’s mismanagement of the territory, and the most recent crash of the Mille Lacs walleye fishery, state proposals to gut sulfate standards, limit protection of wild rice lakes , and the PUC process on the four pipelines proposing to cross northern Minnesota and Ojibwe or Anishinaabe reservations and treaty territories. The state of Minnesota has promised to arrest Ojibwes for harvesting wild rice.
“ We find it ironic that the state of Minnesota would arrest and confiscate canoes and wild rice from Ojibwe people , yet refuses to protect this very rice from the pollutants of the mining and oil industry,” Frank Bibeau attorney for Honor the Earth and the l855 Treaty Commission told reporters. Tribal governments have been very frustrated with the state process, as the state PUC scrambles with four pipeline proposals and one proposal to abandon an aging line with some “structural anomalies”. A structural anomaly is what caused the Kalamazoo spill of 2010, and at least two more 50 year old lines (like the Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinaw) continue to concern most local residents. …Enbridge has gathered extensive integrity data on Line 3 throughout its years of operation. The integrity data shows a high number of integrity anomalies – specifically, corrosion and long seam cracking. Because of its integrity anomalies, Line 3 has experienced a number of failures during its more than 50-year history ( from Enbridge briefing notes).
After requesting government to government discussions, and being pushed aside by the state agency, Honor the Earth Executive Director Winona LaDuke, pointed out, “ This is 2015 not l889. Native people need to be treated as first class citizens not third class enemy combatents. ”In response to the state not releasing critical information, tribal governments held their own environmental impact hearings, with findings to be released by the Mille Lacs band in the upcoming month.
In the meantime, a spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will be underway beginning in Rice Lake refuge on August 25, the same time as many environmental groups join together to protest at Department of State Representative John Kerry’s house, in particular, focused on one of these pipelines, the 880,000 barrels per day, Enbridge Alberta Clipper, which needs State Department action. The federal lawsuit on this case, White Earth Band of Ojibwe versus John Kerry will be heard in Federal Court in Minneapolis on September l0.
“The fact is that if a Canadian corporation can successfully secure eminent domain rights over the land of American farmers, we have a constitutional problem,” Bibeau said referring to the Enbridge Sandpiper case, and North Dakota farmer James Botsford’s attempt to avert the pipeline from his land. In terms of the Alberta Clipper case, the Tribe and a number of environmental organizations point out that the Enbridge Company is proceeding with moving oil, without an environmental impact statement.
The problem is large in scope , as Honor the Earth’s LaDuke testified at the hearing in Rice Lake, “The Enbridge Company … has wished to only account for the carbon used to power the transportation of the oil through the pipelines it is providing for the extreme extraction process.… We reject this suggestion as self serving and inaccurate. Responsibility for the total carbon footprint… would be required to be considered. It is as if we are saying that, those who operated the railroads to the gas chambers were not complicit in the Jewish Holocaust, but instead, only the SS which administered the gas, would be liable. That is preposterous. These pipelines constitute the railroad to the gas chambers of climate change…” Conservative estimates of carbon emissions from Line 3 and the Sandpiper, are calculated at 125,737,313 metric tons annually in the “well to wheels” impact. As Ojibwe wild ricer Dennis Jackson waited patiently for his time to testify at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing in Rice Lake, he listened to a lot of testimony and presentations. Every month, the story seems to get bigger, and the process more confusing.
Dennis was the 25th or so person to testify. He walked up to the front of the room with a cell phone and scrolled to a picture. The picture was Dennis’ 2013 harvest of 700 pounds of wild rice or manoomin from Rice Lake in his canoe. A canoe full of rice. That is a snapshot of this story, and the story of the wild rice. As Honor the Earth explained in testimony to the PUC, “…Let us be clear, this is the only place in the world where there are Anishinaabeg and this is the only place in the world where there is wild rice. We understand that, and fully intend to protect both ...”
Photos by littleredfeatherdesign.com for "Love Water Not Oil," tour. www.honorearth.org
No permission granted to use photos without permission, and must be credited to photographer and Honor the Earth.
Check out photos from the Saturday, October 19 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Climb for United Way Student Climb and Public Climb. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
On Sunday Oct. 6, Environmental Defence and Sarah Harmer presented Rock the Line - a free concert with performances by Sarah Harmer, Gord Downie & The Sadies, Hayden and The Minotaurs. The concert at Mel Lastman Square raised awareness about the risks of Enbridge's Line 9 tar sands pipeline plan.
Photo Credit: Yasmin Parodi/Environmental Defence
Check out photos from the Sunday, October 20, 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Corporate Challenge 2. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Check out photos from the Sunday, October 20, 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Corporate Challenge 2. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Check out photos from the Sunday, October 20, 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Corporate Challenge 2. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines by Winona LaDuke
Updated about a week ago
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines Winona LaDuke
Manoominike Giizis, it is the Wild Rice Making Moon. As the wild rice ripens in Northern Minnesota, a huge battle ground of tribal communities, landowners, the state of Minnesota and the largest pipeline company in the world begins. It is a clash of cultures, and pits money and oil against Native people and wild rice. In the next two weeks, public hearings, a wild rice harvest, a traditional spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will make their way along the proposed route. “ The hearings will move the direction of the oil ,or where it is proposed to run, the horse ride and canoe journey will move against the current of the oil, in a third year of a spiritual journey for the wild rice and future generations.” Frank Bibeau , attorney for Honor the Earth explains . Honor the Earth’s Love Water not Oil campaign continues, this hear with the third annual Spiritual horse ride on August 25, including Anishinaabe tribal members as well as Lakota leaders from the Pine Ridge reservation who have been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. They will be joined by other non Native allies on horse back and on canoe.
The Enbridge Company is proposing to move l. 4 million barrels of new oil across the best wild rice lakes in the world, in a new set of proposals involving up to 760,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil and 640,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken fields.
This past week, the first hearing on the proposals was held in the Rice Lake community, one of the two most impacted native communities by the proposed Line 3 and Sandpiper routes. Forty or more tribal members testified, reaffirming what the state and pipeline company already know: The Ojibwe stand opposed to any oil pipelines crossing the reservation, or the l855 treaty area, and this position is supported by all the tribes in Minnesota, the Great Lakes and the National Congress of American Indians. The fact is, that every proposal to move tar sands or fracked oil has to run through Native people, and in Minnesota, this will be a problem.
At the same time as the Enbridge drama unfolds, the l855 Treaty Authority of the Ojibwe, notified Minnesota Governor Dayton of the tribal wild rice harvest in the 1855 treaty territory, informing him that tribal members would continue to harvest without any permits from the state. Archie LaRose, Chair of the Treaty Authority, pointed out the state’s mismanagement of the territory, and the most recent crash of the Mille Lacs walleye fishery, state proposals to gut sulfate standards, limit protection of wild rice lakes , and the PUC process on the four pipelines proposing to cross northern Minnesota and Ojibwe or Anishinaabe reservations and treaty territories. The state of Minnesota has promised to arrest Ojibwes for harvesting wild rice.
“ We find it ironic that the state of Minnesota would arrest and confiscate canoes and wild rice from Ojibwe people , yet refuses to protect this very rice from the pollutants of the mining and oil industry,” Frank Bibeau attorney for Honor the Earth and the l855 Treaty Commission told reporters. Tribal governments have been very frustrated with the state process, as the state PUC scrambles with four pipeline proposals and one proposal to abandon an aging line with some “structural anomalies”. A structural anomaly is what caused the Kalamazoo spill of 2010, and at least two more 50 year old lines (like the Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinaw) continue to concern most local residents. …Enbridge has gathered extensive integrity data on Line 3 throughout its years of operation. The integrity data shows a high number of integrity anomalies – specifically, corrosion and long seam cracking. Because of its integrity anomalies, Line 3 has experienced a number of failures during its more than 50-year history ( from Enbridge briefing notes).
After requesting government to government discussions, and being pushed aside by the state agency, Honor the Earth Executive Director Winona LaDuke, pointed out, “ This is 2015 not l889. Native people need to be treated as first class citizens not third class enemy combatents. ”In response to the state not releasing critical information, tribal governments held their own environmental impact hearings, with findings to be released by the Mille Lacs band in the upcoming month.
In the meantime, a spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will be underway beginning in Rice Lake refuge on August 25, the same time as many environmental groups join together to protest at Department of State Representative John Kerry’s house, in particular, focused on one of these pipelines, the 880,000 barrels per day, Enbridge Alberta Clipper, which needs State Department action. The federal lawsuit on this case, White Earth Band of Ojibwe versus John Kerry will be heard in Federal Court in Minneapolis on September l0.
“The fact is that if a Canadian corporation can successfully secure eminent domain rights over the land of American farmers, we have a constitutional problem,” Bibeau said referring to the Enbridge Sandpiper case, and North Dakota farmer James Botsford’s attempt to avert the pipeline from his land. In terms of the Alberta Clipper case, the Tribe and a number of environmental organizations point out that the Enbridge Company is proceeding with moving oil, without an environmental impact statement.
The problem is large in scope , as Honor the Earth’s LaDuke testified at the hearing in Rice Lake, “The Enbridge Company … has wished to only account for the carbon used to power the transportation of the oil through the pipelines it is providing for the extreme extraction process.… We reject this suggestion as self serving and inaccurate. Responsibility for the total carbon footprint… would be required to be considered. It is as if we are saying that, those who operated the railroads to the gas chambers were not complicit in the Jewish Holocaust, but instead, only the SS which administered the gas, would be liable. That is preposterous. These pipelines constitute the railroad to the gas chambers of climate change…” Conservative estimates of carbon emissions from Line 3 and the Sandpiper, are calculated at 125,737,313 metric tons annually in the “well to wheels” impact. As Ojibwe wild ricer Dennis Jackson waited patiently for his time to testify at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing in Rice Lake, he listened to a lot of testimony and presentations. Every month, the story seems to get bigger, and the process more confusing.
Dennis was the 25th or so person to testify. He walked up to the front of the room with a cell phone and scrolled to a picture. The picture was Dennis’ 2013 harvest of 700 pounds of wild rice or manoomin from Rice Lake in his canoe. A canoe full of rice. That is a snapshot of this story, and the story of the wild rice. As Honor the Earth explained in testimony to the PUC, “…Let us be clear, this is the only place in the world where there are Anishinaabeg and this is the only place in the world where there is wild rice. We understand that, and fully intend to protect both ...”
Photos by littleredfeatherdesign.com for "Love Water Not Oil," tour. www.honorearth.org
No permission granted to use photos without permission, and must be credited to photographer and Honor the Earth.
Check out photos from the Saturday, October 19 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Climb for United Way Student Climb and Public Climb. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Check out photos from the Saturday, October 19 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Climb for United Way Student Climb and Public Climb. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Adam Scott of Environmental Defence,
PipeDreams © Linda Dawn Hammond / IndyFoto.com 2012, Free public screening of three documentaries- ‘Pipe Dreams’, on American opposition to the proposed Keystone XL pipeline by filmmaker Leslie Iwerks, "This is not an Enbridge animation" by Vancouver production company Shortt and Epic, showing the beauty of the Douglas Channel and illustrating the Islands any tankers would have to navigate, in response to them having been conveniently "erased" from Enbridge's promotional material, and ‘The Pipedreams Project’, by Ryan Vandecasteyen & Faroe Des Roches, on the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. Bloor Cinema, Toronto, Canada. Oct.9, 2012,
The three videos were followed by a discussion on the contentious tar sands and pipeline projects by Canadian MP Olivia Chow, Keith Stewart of Greenpeace Canada, Adam Scott of Environmental Defence and Pipe Dreams filmmaker Leslie Iwerks.
In spite of the overly optimistic claim that public opinion has won and the deal is shelved, this is not over- the Canadian govt. is fast tracking the tar sands take-over by foreign interests such as China ( Nexen) and Malaysia, among others, and just approved Enbridge's tankers in the Douglas Channel m.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/enbridge-gets-supert...
The Harper government does not care about public opinion on this issue. It is apparently going ahead and to hell with Canada and the environment. Money is their master and they think only in dollars and yens (as opposed to SENSE).
'This is not an Enbridge animation'
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0BCdinqMvQ
‘The Pipedreams Project’
Why is this happening? Ask the people who voted Harper in with a majority- they are to blame. We are about to lose Canadian control over our natural resources because of this govt and that is not reversible. Who is going to clean up the inevitable bitumen spills when they occur? China? One thing I learned the other day is that bitumen doesn't float to the surface- it sinks- and the oil companies are unprepared as to how to clean it up once it leaks into a river system. At that point, it's already too late for the wildlife and plants in the region. Encouraging further oil/tar/bitumen sands development is not only endangering the immediate environment by eradicating the habitat of local animals and creating toxic tailing ponds where migratory birds land only to die, but adding to the global warming problem. Personally, I'm very concerned that Harper is about to OK the Nexen tar sands deal, opening us up to China owning our natural resources, and free trade with China leading to litigation down the road if we try to decline further projects. A China backed company sued Obama when they refused China ownership of a wind project located near a sensitive military installation. I heard somewhere the US is not happy with the prospect of a Canadian Nexen deal either...
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Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines by Winona LaDuke
Updated about a week ago
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines Winona LaDuke
Manoominike Giizis, it is the Wild Rice Making Moon. As the wild rice ripens in Northern Minnesota, a huge battle ground of tribal communities, landowners, the state of Minnesota and the largest pipeline company in the world begins. It is a clash of cultures, and pits money and oil against Native people and wild rice. In the next two weeks, public hearings, a wild rice harvest, a traditional spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will make their way along the proposed route. “ The hearings will move the direction of the oil ,or where it is proposed to run, the horse ride and canoe journey will move against the current of the oil, in a third year of a spiritual journey for the wild rice and future generations.” Frank Bibeau , attorney for Honor the Earth explains . Honor the Earth’s Love Water not Oil campaign continues, this hear with the third annual Spiritual horse ride on August 25, including Anishinaabe tribal members as well as Lakota leaders from the Pine Ridge reservation who have been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. They will be joined by other non Native allies on horse back and on canoe.
The Enbridge Company is proposing to move l. 4 million barrels of new oil across the best wild rice lakes in the world, in a new set of proposals involving up to 760,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil and 640,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken fields.
This past week, the first hearing on the proposals was held in the Rice Lake community, one of the two most impacted native communities by the proposed Line 3 and Sandpiper routes. Forty or more tribal members testified, reaffirming what the state and pipeline company already know: The Ojibwe stand opposed to any oil pipelines crossing the reservation, or the l855 treaty area, and this position is supported by all the tribes in Minnesota, the Great Lakes and the National Congress of American Indians. The fact is, that every proposal to move tar sands or fracked oil has to run through Native people, and in Minnesota, this will be a problem.
At the same time as the Enbridge drama unfolds, the l855 Treaty Authority of the Ojibwe, notified Minnesota Governor Dayton of the tribal wild rice harvest in the 1855 treaty territory, informing him that tribal members would continue to harvest without any permits from the state. Archie LaRose, Chair of the Treaty Authority, pointed out the state’s mismanagement of the territory, and the most recent crash of the Mille Lacs walleye fishery, state proposals to gut sulfate standards, limit protection of wild rice lakes , and the PUC process on the four pipelines proposing to cross northern Minnesota and Ojibwe or Anishinaabe reservations and treaty territories. The state of Minnesota has promised to arrest Ojibwes for harvesting wild rice.
“ We find it ironic that the state of Minnesota would arrest and confiscate canoes and wild rice from Ojibwe people , yet refuses to protect this very rice from the pollutants of the mining and oil industry,” Frank Bibeau attorney for Honor the Earth and the l855 Treaty Commission told reporters. Tribal governments have been very frustrated with the state process, as the state PUC scrambles with four pipeline proposals and one proposal to abandon an aging line with some “structural anomalies”. A structural anomaly is what caused the Kalamazoo spill of 2010, and at least two more 50 year old lines (like the Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinaw) continue to concern most local residents. …Enbridge has gathered extensive integrity data on Line 3 throughout its years of operation. The integrity data shows a high number of integrity anomalies – specifically, corrosion and long seam cracking. Because of its integrity anomalies, Line 3 has experienced a number of failures during its more than 50-year history ( from Enbridge briefing notes).
After requesting government to government discussions, and being pushed aside by the state agency, Honor the Earth Executive Director Winona LaDuke, pointed out, “ This is 2015 not l889. Native people need to be treated as first class citizens not third class enemy combatents. ”In response to the state not releasing critical information, tribal governments held their own environmental impact hearings, with findings to be released by the Mille Lacs band in the upcoming month.
In the meantime, a spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will be underway beginning in Rice Lake refuge on August 25, the same time as many environmental groups join together to protest at Department of State Representative John Kerry’s house, in particular, focused on one of these pipelines, the 880,000 barrels per day, Enbridge Alberta Clipper, which needs State Department action. The federal lawsuit on this case, White Earth Band of Ojibwe versus John Kerry will be heard in Federal Court in Minneapolis on September l0.
“The fact is that if a Canadian corporation can successfully secure eminent domain rights over the land of American farmers, we have a constitutional problem,” Bibeau said referring to the Enbridge Sandpiper case, and North Dakota farmer James Botsford’s attempt to avert the pipeline from his land. In terms of the Alberta Clipper case, the Tribe and a number of environmental organizations point out that the Enbridge Company is proceeding with moving oil, without an environmental impact statement.
The problem is large in scope , as Honor the Earth’s LaDuke testified at the hearing in Rice Lake, “The Enbridge Company … has wished to only account for the carbon used to power the transportation of the oil through the pipelines it is providing for the extreme extraction process.… We reject this suggestion as self serving and inaccurate. Responsibility for the total carbon footprint… would be required to be considered. It is as if we are saying that, those who operated the railroads to the gas chambers were not complicit in the Jewish Holocaust, but instead, only the SS which administered the gas, would be liable. That is preposterous. These pipelines constitute the railroad to the gas chambers of climate change…” Conservative estimates of carbon emissions from Line 3 and the Sandpiper, are calculated at 125,737,313 metric tons annually in the “well to wheels” impact. As Ojibwe wild ricer Dennis Jackson waited patiently for his time to testify at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing in Rice Lake, he listened to a lot of testimony and presentations. Every month, the story seems to get bigger, and the process more confusing.
Dennis was the 25th or so person to testify. He walked up to the front of the room with a cell phone and scrolled to a picture. The picture was Dennis’ 2013 harvest of 700 pounds of wild rice or manoomin from Rice Lake in his canoe. A canoe full of rice. That is a snapshot of this story, and the story of the wild rice. As Honor the Earth explained in testimony to the PUC, “…Let us be clear, this is the only place in the world where there are Anishinaabeg and this is the only place in the world where there is wild rice. We understand that, and fully intend to protect both ...”
Photos by littleredfeatherdesign.com for "Love Water Not Oil," tour. www.honorearth.org
No permission granted to use photos without permission, and must be credited to photographer and Honor the Earth.
Check out photos from the Thursday, October 17 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Climb for United Way Corporate Challenge 1, Invitational Climb and Presidential Challenge. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway
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Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines by Winona LaDuke
Updated about a week ago
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines Winona LaDuke
Manoominike Giizis, it is the Wild Rice Making Moon. As the wild rice ripens in Northern Minnesota, a huge battle ground of tribal communities, landowners, the state of Minnesota and the largest pipeline company in the world begins. It is a clash of cultures, and pits money and oil against Native people and wild rice. In the next two weeks, public hearings, a wild rice harvest, a traditional spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will make their way along the proposed route. “ The hearings will move the direction of the oil ,or where it is proposed to run, the horse ride and canoe journey will move against the current of the oil, in a third year of a spiritual journey for the wild rice and future generations.” Frank Bibeau , attorney for Honor the Earth explains . Honor the Earth’s Love Water not Oil campaign continues, this hear with the third annual Spiritual horse ride on August 25, including Anishinaabe tribal members as well as Lakota leaders from the Pine Ridge reservation who have been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. They will be joined by other non Native allies on horse back and on canoe.
The Enbridge Company is proposing to move l. 4 million barrels of new oil across the best wild rice lakes in the world, in a new set of proposals involving up to 760,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil and 640,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken fields.
This past week, the first hearing on the proposals was held in the Rice Lake community, one of the two most impacted native communities by the proposed Line 3 and Sandpiper routes. Forty or more tribal members testified, reaffirming what the state and pipeline company already know: The Ojibwe stand opposed to any oil pipelines crossing the reservation, or the l855 treaty area, and this position is supported by all the tribes in Minnesota, the Great Lakes and the National Congress of American Indians. The fact is, that every proposal to move tar sands or fracked oil has to run through Native people, and in Minnesota, this will be a problem.
At the same time as the Enbridge drama unfolds, the l855 Treaty Authority of the Ojibwe, notified Minnesota Governor Dayton of the tribal wild rice harvest in the 1855 treaty territory, informing him that tribal members would continue to harvest without any permits from the state. Archie LaRose, Chair of the Treaty Authority, pointed out the state’s mismanagement of the territory, and the most recent crash of the Mille Lacs walleye fishery, state proposals to gut sulfate standards, limit protection of wild rice lakes , and the PUC process on the four pipelines proposing to cross northern Minnesota and Ojibwe or Anishinaabe reservations and treaty territories. The state of Minnesota has promised to arrest Ojibwes for harvesting wild rice.
“ We find it ironic that the state of Minnesota would arrest and confiscate canoes and wild rice from Ojibwe people , yet refuses to protect this very rice from the pollutants of the mining and oil industry,” Frank Bibeau attorney for Honor the Earth and the l855 Treaty Commission told reporters. Tribal governments have been very frustrated with the state process, as the state PUC scrambles with four pipeline proposals and one proposal to abandon an aging line with some “structural anomalies”. A structural anomaly is what caused the Kalamazoo spill of 2010, and at least two more 50 year old lines (like the Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinaw) continue to concern most local residents. …Enbridge has gathered extensive integrity data on Line 3 throughout its years of operation. The integrity data shows a high number of integrity anomalies – specifically, corrosion and long seam cracking. Because of its integrity anomalies, Line 3 has experienced a number of failures during its more than 50-year history ( from Enbridge briefing notes).
After requesting government to government discussions, and being pushed aside by the state agency, Honor the Earth Executive Director Winona LaDuke, pointed out, “ This is 2015 not l889. Native people need to be treated as first class citizens not third class enemy combatents. ”In response to the state not releasing critical information, tribal governments held their own environmental impact hearings, with findings to be released by the Mille Lacs band in the upcoming month.
In the meantime, a spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will be underway beginning in Rice Lake refuge on August 25, the same time as many environmental groups join together to protest at Department of State Representative John Kerry’s house, in particular, focused on one of these pipelines, the 880,000 barrels per day, Enbridge Alberta Clipper, which needs State Department action. The federal lawsuit on this case, White Earth Band of Ojibwe versus John Kerry will be heard in Federal Court in Minneapolis on September l0.
“The fact is that if a Canadian corporation can successfully secure eminent domain rights over the land of American farmers, we have a constitutional problem,” Bibeau said referring to the Enbridge Sandpiper case, and North Dakota farmer James Botsford’s attempt to avert the pipeline from his land. In terms of the Alberta Clipper case, the Tribe and a number of environmental organizations point out that the Enbridge Company is proceeding with moving oil, without an environmental impact statement.
The problem is large in scope , as Honor the Earth’s LaDuke testified at the hearing in Rice Lake, “The Enbridge Company … has wished to only account for the carbon used to power the transportation of the oil through the pipelines it is providing for the extreme extraction process.… We reject this suggestion as self serving and inaccurate. Responsibility for the total carbon footprint… would be required to be considered. It is as if we are saying that, those who operated the railroads to the gas chambers were not complicit in the Jewish Holocaust, but instead, only the SS which administered the gas, would be liable. That is preposterous. These pipelines constitute the railroad to the gas chambers of climate change…” Conservative estimates of carbon emissions from Line 3 and the Sandpiper, are calculated at 125,737,313 metric tons annually in the “well to wheels” impact. As Ojibwe wild ricer Dennis Jackson waited patiently for his time to testify at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing in Rice Lake, he listened to a lot of testimony and presentations. Every month, the story seems to get bigger, and the process more confusing.
Dennis was the 25th or so person to testify. He walked up to the front of the room with a cell phone and scrolled to a picture. The picture was Dennis’ 2013 harvest of 700 pounds of wild rice or manoomin from Rice Lake in his canoe. A canoe full of rice. That is a snapshot of this story, and the story of the wild rice. As Honor the Earth explained in testimony to the PUC, “…Let us be clear, this is the only place in the world where there are Anishinaabeg and this is the only place in the world where there is wild rice. We understand that, and fully intend to protect both ...”
Photos by littleredfeatherdesign.com for "Love Water Not Oil," tour. www.honorearth.org
No permission granted to use photos without permission, and must be credited to photographer and Honor the Earth.
Check out photos from the Saturday, October 19 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Climb for United Way Student Climb and Public Climb. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway.
Check out photos from the Thursday, October 17 2013 Enbridge CN Tower Climb for United Way Corporate Challenge 1, Invitational Climb and Presidential Challenge. For more about the event, visit unitedwaytoronto.com/climbforunitedway
On Sunday Oct. 6, Environmental Defence and Sarah Harmer presented Rock the Line - a free concert with performances by Sarah Harmer, Gord Downie & The Sadies, Hayden and The Minotaurs. The concert at Mel Lastman Square raised awareness about the risks of Enbridge's Line 9 tar sands pipeline plan.
Photo credit: Yasmin Parodi/Environmental Defence
Love Water Not Oil Tour 2016
Updated -- We said our prayers and saddled up thirteen riders to cross the Rice Lake Wildlife Refuge, kicking off our 4th Annual Love Water Not Oil Tour 2016. This spiritual journey follows the proposed route of Enbridge's Sandpiper/Line 3 Corridor which they want to cross our treaty territories, our sacred waters- the only home of our manoomin, our wild rice. 4 years ago, Winona LaDuke dreamt that this black snake was coming, and that to fight it, we must ride our horses against the current of the oil. We will spend the next weeks traveling these lands and joining in prayer and resistance. Miigwech to our Dakota, Lakota, Anishinaabe, Blackfeet, Fronterizas Huchin Nation, Dine` Navajo, and more relatives that are with us to start this journey off right! #LoveWaterNotOil
CHI MIIGWECH ! Message from Winona LaDuke
Dawn Goodwin, Ashley MartinStevens Lenora Neeland, JoAnn Gagnon and all of the beautiful people of rice lake, particularly those precious children who loved our horses. ... and fed us..
I am eternally grateful to Garrett White, Iyokpiya Eastman, David Eastman, Matt James....James Reents, Skinny Bull, Wesley Wakinya Alowan AnpetuLuta, Lorna Hanes, Annie Humphrey, Keith Secola, Cedar and Todd Utech ... for those many days in the saddle, and my horses- five of them came for the whole ride...... the horse nation is beautiful.. Riel, my new blue and white horse ... thanks to Georgianne Nienaber and Jeremy Kaiserlik proved a steadfast and great soul... as anticipated..... seeing horses come into their own power with amazing Dakota 38 riders.. for their love of the horses and their commitment to this ride. It was our fourth year.. A report from the 1855 on the ground is a bumper year for berries, bergamot is in high season...harvesting in the l855 is very good.. the wild rice seems good.... and there will be much wood from the storms to harvest in our treaty territory. Miigwech to our supporters and those who came to help Korey Northrup, Thane Maxwell, Kat Chma, Tania Aubid, Gwe Gasco, William Sayers, Algin Goodsky, Anthony Sul, Tara Zhaabowekwe Houska, Makai Lewis, Sarah LittleRedfeather Kalmanson, Ivy Vainio, Scott Frederick and so many more..
Honor Board member Kim Smith & friends, Victor Puertas, Kendra Willeto Cody Fetty& Makai Lewis for your support& putting in miles, a little goes a long way.
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Dakota’s - All Dakota 38 Riders
Wesley Redding - Wakinya Ajowan AnpetuLuta
Iyokpiya Seth Eastman
Dakota Sistonwan Wahpetonwan Oyate
Jason Ferris R.S. - Dakota Santee NE Big Bear Aka Skiny Bull
Horse rider from childhood
Garrett White - TaOyate Duta
Dakota Sistonwan Wahpetonwan Oyate
Monga Eastman (David Eastman)
Dakota Sistonwan Wahpetonwan Oyate
Matt James
Dakota Sistonwan Wahpetonwan Oyate
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Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines by Winona LaDuke
Updated about a week ago
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines Winona LaDuke
Manoominike Giizis, it is the Wild Rice Making Moon. As the wild rice ripens in Northern Minnesota, a huge battle ground of tribal communities, landowners, the state of Minnesota and the largest pipeline company in the world begins. It is a clash of cultures, and pits money and oil against Native people and wild rice. In the next two weeks, public hearings, a wild rice harvest, a traditional spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will make their way along the proposed route. “ The hearings will move the direction of the oil ,or where it is proposed to run, the horse ride and canoe journey will move against the current of the oil, in a third year of a spiritual journey for the wild rice and future generations.” Frank Bibeau , attorney for Honor the Earth explains . Honor the Earth’s Love Water not Oil campaign continues, this hear with the third annual Spiritual horse ride on August 25, including Anishinaabe tribal members as well as Lakota leaders from the Pine Ridge reservation who have been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. They will be joined by other non Native allies on horse back and on canoe.
The Enbridge Company is proposing to move l. 4 million barrels of new oil across the best wild rice lakes in the world, in a new set of proposals involving up to 760,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil and 640,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken fields.
This past week, the first hearing on the proposals was held in the Rice Lake community, one of the two most impacted native communities by the proposed Line 3 and Sandpiper routes. Forty or more tribal members testified, reaffirming what the state and pipeline company already know: The Ojibwe stand opposed to any oil pipelines crossing the reservation, or the l855 treaty area, and this position is supported by all the tribes in Minnesota, the Great Lakes and the National Congress of American Indians. The fact is, that every proposal to move tar sands or fracked oil has to run through Native people, and in Minnesota, this will be a problem.
At the same time as the Enbridge drama unfolds, the l855 Treaty Authority of the Ojibwe, notified Minnesota Governor Dayton of the tribal wild rice harvest in the 1855 treaty territory, informing him that tribal members would continue to harvest without any permits from the state. Archie LaRose, Chair of the Treaty Authority, pointed out the state’s mismanagement of the territory, and the most recent crash of the Mille Lacs walleye fishery, state proposals to gut sulfate standards, limit protection of wild rice lakes , and the PUC process on the four pipelines proposing to cross northern Minnesota and Ojibwe or Anishinaabe reservations and treaty territories. The state of Minnesota has promised to arrest Ojibwes for harvesting wild rice.
“ We find it ironic that the state of Minnesota would arrest and confiscate canoes and wild rice from Ojibwe people , yet refuses to protect this very rice from the pollutants of the mining and oil industry,” Frank Bibeau attorney for Honor the Earth and the l855 Treaty Commission told reporters. Tribal governments have been very frustrated with the state process, as the state PUC scrambles with four pipeline proposals and one proposal to abandon an aging line with some “structural anomalies”. A structural anomaly is what caused the Kalamazoo spill of 2010, and at least two more 50 year old lines (like the Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinaw) continue to concern most local residents. …Enbridge has gathered extensive integrity data on Line 3 throughout its years of operation. The integrity data shows a high number of integrity anomalies – specifically, corrosion and long seam cracking. Because of its integrity anomalies, Line 3 has experienced a number of failures during its more than 50-year history ( from Enbridge briefing notes).
After requesting government to government discussions, and being pushed aside by the state agency, Honor the Earth Executive Director Winona LaDuke, pointed out, “ This is 2015 not l889. Native people need to be treated as first class citizens not third class enemy combatents. ”In response to the state not releasing critical information, tribal governments held their own environmental impact hearings, with findings to be released by the Mille Lacs band in the upcoming month.
In the meantime, a spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will be underway beginning in Rice Lake refuge on August 25, the same time as many environmental groups join together to protest at Department of State Representative John Kerry’s house, in particular, focused on one of these pipelines, the 880,000 barrels per day, Enbridge Alberta Clipper, which needs State Department action. The federal lawsuit on this case, White Earth Band of Ojibwe versus John Kerry will be heard in Federal Court in Minneapolis on September l0.
“The fact is that if a Canadian corporation can successfully secure eminent domain rights over the land of American farmers, we have a constitutional problem,” Bibeau said referring to the Enbridge Sandpiper case, and North Dakota farmer James Botsford’s attempt to avert the pipeline from his land. In terms of the Alberta Clipper case, the Tribe and a number of environmental organizations point out that the Enbridge Company is proceeding with moving oil, without an environmental impact statement.
The problem is large in scope , as Honor the Earth’s LaDuke testified at the hearing in Rice Lake, “The Enbridge Company … has wished to only account for the carbon used to power the transportation of the oil through the pipelines it is providing for the extreme extraction process.… We reject this suggestion as self serving and inaccurate. Responsibility for the total carbon footprint… would be required to be considered. It is as if we are saying that, those who operated the railroads to the gas chambers were not complicit in the Jewish Holocaust, but instead, only the SS which administered the gas, would be liable. That is preposterous. These pipelines constitute the railroad to the gas chambers of climate change…” Conservative estimates of carbon emissions from Line 3 and the Sandpiper, are calculated at 125,737,313 metric tons annually in the “well to wheels” impact. As Ojibwe wild ricer Dennis Jackson waited patiently for his time to testify at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing in Rice Lake, he listened to a lot of testimony and presentations. Every month, the story seems to get bigger, and the process more confusing.
Dennis was the 25th or so person to testify. He walked up to the front of the room with a cell phone and scrolled to a picture. The picture was Dennis’ 2013 harvest of 700 pounds of wild rice or manoomin from Rice Lake in his canoe. A canoe full of rice. That is a snapshot of this story, and the story of the wild rice. As Honor the Earth explained in testimony to the PUC, “…Let us be clear, this is the only place in the world where there are Anishinaabeg and this is the only place in the world where there is wild rice. We understand that, and fully intend to protect both ...”
Photos by littleredfeatherdesign.com for "Love Water Not Oil," tour. www.honorearth.org
No permission granted to use photos without permission, and must be credited to photographer and Honor the Earth.
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines by Winona LaDuke
Updated about a week ago
Wild Rice, Horses and Pipelines Winona LaDuke
Manoominike Giizis, it is the Wild Rice Making Moon. As the wild rice ripens in Northern Minnesota, a huge battle ground of tribal communities, landowners, the state of Minnesota and the largest pipeline company in the world begins. It is a clash of cultures, and pits money and oil against Native people and wild rice. In the next two weeks, public hearings, a wild rice harvest, a traditional spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will make their way along the proposed route. “ The hearings will move the direction of the oil ,or where it is proposed to run, the horse ride and canoe journey will move against the current of the oil, in a third year of a spiritual journey for the wild rice and future generations.” Frank Bibeau , attorney for Honor the Earth explains . Honor the Earth’s Love Water not Oil campaign continues, this hear with the third annual Spiritual horse ride on August 25, including Anishinaabe tribal members as well as Lakota leaders from the Pine Ridge reservation who have been opposing the Keystone XL pipeline. They will be joined by other non Native allies on horse back and on canoe.
The Enbridge Company is proposing to move l. 4 million barrels of new oil across the best wild rice lakes in the world, in a new set of proposals involving up to 760,000 barrels per day of tar sands oil and 640,000 barrels per day of fracked oil from the Bakken fields.
This past week, the first hearing on the proposals was held in the Rice Lake community, one of the two most impacted native communities by the proposed Line 3 and Sandpiper routes. Forty or more tribal members testified, reaffirming what the state and pipeline company already know: The Ojibwe stand opposed to any oil pipelines crossing the reservation, or the l855 treaty area, and this position is supported by all the tribes in Minnesota, the Great Lakes and the National Congress of American Indians. The fact is, that every proposal to move tar sands or fracked oil has to run through Native people, and in Minnesota, this will be a problem.
At the same time as the Enbridge drama unfolds, the l855 Treaty Authority of the Ojibwe, notified Minnesota Governor Dayton of the tribal wild rice harvest in the 1855 treaty territory, informing him that tribal members would continue to harvest without any permits from the state. Archie LaRose, Chair of the Treaty Authority, pointed out the state’s mismanagement of the territory, and the most recent crash of the Mille Lacs walleye fishery, state proposals to gut sulfate standards, limit protection of wild rice lakes , and the PUC process on the four pipelines proposing to cross northern Minnesota and Ojibwe or Anishinaabe reservations and treaty territories. The state of Minnesota has promised to arrest Ojibwes for harvesting wild rice.
“ We find it ironic that the state of Minnesota would arrest and confiscate canoes and wild rice from Ojibwe people , yet refuses to protect this very rice from the pollutants of the mining and oil industry,” Frank Bibeau attorney for Honor the Earth and the l855 Treaty Commission told reporters. Tribal governments have been very frustrated with the state process, as the state PUC scrambles with four pipeline proposals and one proposal to abandon an aging line with some “structural anomalies”. A structural anomaly is what caused the Kalamazoo spill of 2010, and at least two more 50 year old lines (like the Line 5 under the Straits of Mackinaw) continue to concern most local residents. …Enbridge has gathered extensive integrity data on Line 3 throughout its years of operation. The integrity data shows a high number of integrity anomalies – specifically, corrosion and long seam cracking. Because of its integrity anomalies, Line 3 has experienced a number of failures during its more than 50-year history ( from Enbridge briefing notes).
After requesting government to government discussions, and being pushed aside by the state agency, Honor the Earth Executive Director Winona LaDuke, pointed out, “ This is 2015 not l889. Native people need to be treated as first class citizens not third class enemy combatents. ”In response to the state not releasing critical information, tribal governments held their own environmental impact hearings, with findings to be released by the Mille Lacs band in the upcoming month.
In the meantime, a spiritual horse ride and a canoe journey will be underway beginning in Rice Lake refuge on August 25, the same time as many environmental groups join together to protest at Department of State Representative John Kerry’s house, in particular, focused on one of these pipelines, the 880,000 barrels per day, Enbridge Alberta Clipper, which needs State Department action. The federal lawsuit on this case, White Earth Band of Ojibwe versus John Kerry will be heard in Federal Court in Minneapolis on September l0.
“The fact is that if a Canadian corporation can successfully secure eminent domain rights over the land of American farmers, we have a constitutional problem,” Bibeau said referring to the Enbridge Sandpiper case, and North Dakota farmer James Botsford’s attempt to avert the pipeline from his land. In terms of the Alberta Clipper case, the Tribe and a number of environmental organizations point out that the Enbridge Company is proceeding with moving oil, without an environmental impact statement.
The problem is large in scope , as Honor the Earth’s LaDuke testified at the hearing in Rice Lake, “The Enbridge Company … has wished to only account for the carbon used to power the transportation of the oil through the pipelines it is providing for the extreme extraction process.… We reject this suggestion as self serving and inaccurate. Responsibility for the total carbon footprint… would be required to be considered. It is as if we are saying that, those who operated the railroads to the gas chambers were not complicit in the Jewish Holocaust, but instead, only the SS which administered the gas, would be liable. That is preposterous. These pipelines constitute the railroad to the gas chambers of climate change…” Conservative estimates of carbon emissions from Line 3 and the Sandpiper, are calculated at 125,737,313 metric tons annually in the “well to wheels” impact. As Ojibwe wild ricer Dennis Jackson waited patiently for his time to testify at the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing in Rice Lake, he listened to a lot of testimony and presentations. Every month, the story seems to get bigger, and the process more confusing.
Dennis was the 25th or so person to testify. He walked up to the front of the room with a cell phone and scrolled to a picture. The picture was Dennis’ 2013 harvest of 700 pounds of wild rice or manoomin from Rice Lake in his canoe. A canoe full of rice. That is a snapshot of this story, and the story of the wild rice. As Honor the Earth explained in testimony to the PUC, “…Let us be clear, this is the only place in the world where there are Anishinaabeg and this is the only place in the world where there is wild rice. We understand that, and fully intend to protect both ...”
Photos by littleredfeatherdesign.com for "Love Water Not Oil," tour. www.honorearth.org
No permission granted to use photos without permission, and must be credited to photographer and Honor the Earth.