Save Our Illinois Land

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Just two years ago, the Standing Rock Sioux, indigenous peoples from across the globe, and their allies stood against the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). Their non-violent resistance did not succeed, and Bakken crude now flows through DAPL from North Dakota into Illinois. In June Dakota Access announced plans to install additional pumping stations up and down the line to increase its capacity to 1.1 million barrels per day (bpd) – double its present capacity.

In Illinois, pipeline construction is regulated by the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC).  Dakota Access and Energy Transfer Crude Oil company have submitted a joint petition to the ICC for this project. This request, if granted, would double the greenhouse gas emissions from burning the oil transported by this pipeline. No matter where it's finally burned, this would further exacerbate the global climate emergency. We must leave fossil fuels in the ground.

SOIL has retained a lawyer and is intervening in the approval process. Successful resistance in Illinois will stop this fossil fuel expansion project in North Dakota, South Dakota and Iowa, too. We need your help. Please donate whatever you can. Thank you!

Want to join us in making a difference? We're raising money for Save Our Illinois Land, and any donation will help make an impact.

The Keystone XL pipeline has been delayed. Activists in MI  threaten to cut off of Line 5. And the price of tar sands oil has dropped to less than $14 a barrel because the existing pipelines are full. These factors are creating huge pressures on Canadian pipeline infrastructure giant Enbridge to develop more pipeline capacity to get oil from Alberta tar sands to the Gulf and out for export. The most likely route for all this dirty oil is through Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois on south.

We anticipate Enbridge announcements soon. Many landowners, who previously negotiated an agreement with Enbridge for the existing Line 61, will be asked for an additional easement to build another pipeline, dubbed a 'twin' in Enbridge documents. Some may welcome the payment that comes with negotiating this easement. Others may not. Enbridge, a foreign private company, may be granted eminent domain rights to take the property of those who fail to come to an agreement.

SOIL is the ONLY organization working with landowners and community members in the counties where the pipeline will go to help them organize to resist the pipeline.  We need donations to enable us to keep our very effective organizer working in Illinois.  

Thanks in advance for your contribution to this cause that means so much to all of us.