Local climate activists are set to involve themselves in a day of action.
A demonstration will be held Friday on Red River Road to protest the development of the Line 3 Pipeline, which stretches from Alberta to Wisconsin, and ends just before Lake Superior.
“The Line 3 Pipeline is a tar sands pipeline, and it is equivalent to the greenhouse gas emission of 50 new coal plants, so it’s pretty big and it ends just before our beloved Lake Superior,” says organizer Shadiya Aidid. “Many people don’t know about this pipeline that has been development, and neither do they know the communities that run through it. The Red Lake Nation, the White Earth Nation, and the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, none of them have given their consent and are suing to stop the development.”
The protest is being held in front of the Scotiabank, which was chosen on purpose by the organizers who indicate the top five funders of the pipeline are all Canadian.
Aidid added: “We hope to educate people about Line 3 and it’s impacts, as well as even talking to people about the effects that the climate crises has had in our own communities in Thunder Bay, with the wildfires that have been happening in Northwestern Ontario.
Enbridge, the company behind the Line 3 Pipeline, says it will be operational later this year.
