Stop Line 3
Content warning: mention of s*xual *ss*ult. You may have heard of the Stop Line 3 movement, an indigenous-led movement in protest of the construction of Canadian oil company Enbridge’s new tar sands pipeline. However, with lack of news coverage, information about the detrimental effects of Line 3 and about the Stop Line 3 movement in general requires some digging to find. Thus, I wanted this first blog post to be a summary of these issues and introduce the ways in which the construction of this pipeline is not only harmful to the environment, but a human rights issue and another dangerous affront to the welfare and sovereignty of indigenous people. First of all, what is Line 3? In brief, Line 3 is the reconstruction of a pre-existing oil pipeline on a new route (as the old Line 3 was beginning to decay and become a hazard, and, of course, the efficiency of a new pipeline on this other route would generate more...