Building a pipeline is a messy business. And Enbridge, the Canadian pipeline corporation that is trying to complete Line 3, sure seems to be making a mess.

When Line 3 was first proposed, Anishinaabe people opposed the project. Indigenous leaders, together with environmental groups, faith-based groups, youth-led organizations, health professionals, scientists, and thousands of others, have been fighting this pipeline proposal for seven years.  Though our movement succeeded in delaying it by four years, so far none of the legal challenges have permanently stopped this project.

Construction is now racing along.

Our group, Science for the People, works alongside Watch The Line,  and the hundreds of volunteers on the ground in Northern Minnesota who are challenging the Line 3 pipeline's construction each day, through both advocacy and direct action. We bring attention to environmental violations, like toxic "frac-outs," which have already started polluting several of our rivers and wetlands. When we notice something out of place, we collect samples. And we use the data we collect to push agencies like the Department of Natural Resources and the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency to step in.

Here's where we need your help: taking a sample to the lab for water chemistry testing costs us $600-$1700.

We want to keep showing the damage this project is causing, but the cost is too high for our student-led group to pay alone. So, we are asking you to join us in fighting for both our present and our future. If we reach our fundraising goal of $17,000, we'll be able to pay for 10-25 laboratory water sample tests.

Fighting for Transparency

Drilling fluid leaks have been reported in 12 river crossings across the Line 3 corridor, including at the headwaters of the Mississippi, Willow, and East Savannah rivers. By pushing for documents to be made publicly available, we have learned that this drilling fluid has had only limited risk assessment testing. We also found that some additives in the fluid are proprietary, leaving the public in the dark.

Fighting for Our Downstream Neighbors

The Mississippi River carries the drinking water of 20 million people! At their crossing site near the headwaters, Enbridge has now spilled drilling fluid into the river and the surrounding wetlands at least four different times.

Fighting for Our Wild Spaces

The damage Enbridge has done to our forest and rivers from their past oil spills (including the largest inland spill in US history) cannot be undone. It's only wild once!

Fighting for Our Indigenous Brothers and Sisters

Bands like the White Earth Nation and the Red Lake Nation signed treaties with the US government that guarantee their right to gather, hunt, fish, travel, hold ceremony, and travel through the territory where this pipeline is being built. By allowing leaky oil pipelines to pass through this land without indigenous consent, Minnesota is backing out of the deal. It's not legal, and it's not right!

More About Line 3

Enbridge is trying to complete an expansion and re-routing of an old, leaky crude oil pipeline, stretching from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin - Line 3. If completed, this pipe will transport tar sands crude, the end product of the dirtiest, most polluting form of oil extraction. A new, expanded Line 3 would make it more cost effective to extract more tar sands oil that would otherwise stay in the ground.

There are a number of reasons why people don't want Line 3:

• It would contribute to catastrophic climate change
• It would end up in our drinking water - all pipelines leak!
• It would cross through the treaty territory of Native Americans who have said no!

Please support us so we can keep documenting the harm Enbridge is doing to our world. Together, we can Stop Line 3!

In Solidarity,

Science for the People - Twin Cities