Environmental groups urge President Biden: Halt Line 3 Pipeline

March 1, 2021

President Joseph R. Biden, Jr.

1600 Pennsylvania Avenue

Washington, DC 20500

Dear President Biden, 

We write to urge you to take swift action to revoke the Line 3 tar sands oil pipeline’s permits and stop its construction. Line 3 is a threat to water, Indigenous rights, and our global climate, and its rushed construction in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic is an extreme danger to Minnesotan communities and energy workers alike. 

We urge you to direct the Army Corps of Engineers to immediately reevaluate and suspend or revoke the Line 3 project’s Clean Water Act Section 404 permit. The Army Corps failed to consider significant information on Line 3’s impacts in reaching its original determination, including the risk of oil spills, climate change impacts, and impacts on Indigenous peoples. The Army Corps also refused to prepare a federal Environmental Impact Statement for Line 3, despite overwhelming evidence that the project would have significant impacts. 

Additionally, we urge you to revoke or amend Line 3’s presidential permit, as you did for Keystone XL, to make it clear that the permit does not authorize this massive expansion. Your rejection of the Keystone XL’s pipeline’s presidential permit was a clear signal that the Biden administration represents a break from the fossil fuel giveaways of the Trump administration. Line 3 would be the same diameter as Keystone XL, would carry the same heavy tar sands oil through the Midwest, and was also inappropriately permitted by the Trump administration. As you indicated in your Day One Executive Order, “the United States must [...] exercise vigorous climate leadership in order to achieve a significant increase in global climate action and put the world on a sustainable climate pathway. Leaving the Keystone XL pipeline permit in place would not be consistent with my Administration’s economic and climate imperatives.” The same logic applies to Line 3, which would lock in fossil fuel dependence for decades to come. 

Since 2014, thousands of Minnesotans have shown up at hearings, talked to neighbors, written letters, and organized in their communities to oppose Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline. Hundreds of thousands of Americans across the country, from all walks of life, have joined them in opposing the project. Line 3 is a clear danger to their climate, water, and land, and would undermine the Indigenous rights of the Anishinaabe people. 

Climate scientists warn that we must keep the vast majority of known fossil fuels reserves in the ground, and drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions before 2030. [1] Analysis has shown that building Line 3 would unlock the emissions equivalent to building 50 coal plants, [2] costing society more than $287 billion in climate impacts in just its first 30 years of operation. Adding such fuel to the fire in the midst of our climate crisis is unacceptable. Simply put: No one can be a leader on climate change and support the Line 3 project — a choice must be made. 

The proposed route for Line 3 crosses 227 lakes and rivers, including the Mississippi River and rivers that feed directly into Lake Superior, putting those waterways at risk of a spill from the 760,000 barrels of tar sands oil that would flow through Line 3 every day. Tar sands oil sinks in water, making it nearly impossible to clean up from wetland areas. [3] A spill could destroy prize fishing lakes and sacred wild rice beds, and gut the local economy. 

Enbridge’s negligent 2010 spill of over 1 million gallons of tar sands oil from its aging Line 6B into the Kalamazoo River demonstrated the immensity of this threat, with a cleanup cost of over $1.2 billion. [4] Enbridge’s newer pipelines are no safer than its old ones. Since 2002, the company’s pipelines have had 73 spills due to equipment installed less than 10 years before the incident. [5] The existing Line 3 pipeline was constructed in the 1960s and has deteriorated to a point that it is only able to operate at partial capacity — 390,000 barrels per day — due to structural concerns. Given these risks, this old and deteriorating tar sands pipeline should be shut down for safety reasons, not given the green light to double capacity and reroute through the pristine forests and waterways of the Great Lakes region. Enbridge should not be trusted near precious bodies of water like the Mississippi River.

Enbridge’s route crosses the 1854 and 1855 treaty territory where Anishinaabe people retain the right to hunt, fish, gather medicines, and harvest wild rice. The impact of construction — or worse, an oil spill — would permanently damage their ability to exercise these rights. Three Tribal governments and hundreds of Anishinaabe and Dakota community members in Minnesota are actively opposing this pipeline. Building Line 3 would carry on a legacy of state- and U.S. government-sanctioned oppression of Indigenous people, directly contradicting your important promises to strengthen Nation-to-Nation relationships with Tribal Nations and Indigenous peoples.

In the largest public comment period on Line 3 in Minnesota, 94% of the comments submitted opposed construction of the pipeline. [6] Your administration’s announcements on protecting our nation’s lakes and rivers, cleaning up aging and retired fossil fuel infrastructure currently polluting delicate environments, and moving to a clean energy economy powered by good, union jobs show the direction the United States is heading. With these commitments to building the energy economy of the future, we must not continue to allow fossil fuel companies to move forward with dangerous projects like Line 3 that would last many decades. 

According to the state of Minnesota’s own analysis, Enbridge failed to demonstrate Line 3 was needed, and didn’t provide a legally required oil demand forecast — a part of the process that is even more critical in a world of rapidly changing oil markets and climate policy. The Minnesota Department of Commerce recommended that Line 3 be denied approval, [7] and the judge responsible for presiding over the case issued a legal recommendation that Enbridge’s proposal did not meet the standards set by state law. 

We urge you and all federal leadership to stand firm against the Line 3 pipeline and act now to halt its construction. The pipeline’s construction is an urgent threat to the waters of Minnesota and Lake Superior, as well as to our global climate. The facts are not in Enbridge’s favor, and the time for climate action is now. A thoughtful, science-based approach shows a clear conclusion: Line 3 must not be built.

Signed,



AbibiNsroma Foundation — Robert Tettey Kwami Amiteye, Director

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Alliance for Climate Education — Leah Qusba, Executive Director

Alliance for Empowering Rural Communities — Richard Matey, Director

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American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology — Sheila Heitzig, Director of Practice & Policy

American Association for Community Psychiatry — Dr. Mona Sarfaty, Executive Director of MSCCH

American Family Voices — Lauren Windsor, Executive Director

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Athens County's Future Action Network — Heather Cantino, Steering Committee Chair

Australian Religious Response to Climate Change — Theresa Ormerod, President

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Bank Information Center — Lawrence Connell, Environment Director

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Clean Water Action — Deanna White, Minnesota State Director

Climate Action Network Canada — Eddy Perez, International Climate Diplomacy Manager

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Indigenous Environmental Network — Tom BK Goldtooth, Executive Director, Kandi White, Native Energy & Climate Campaign Coordinator, & Dawn Goodwin, Representative

Indigenous Solidarity Network — Rog Drew, Leadership Team

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Izaak Walton League of America, Minnesota Division — Craig Sterle, Former President

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The Juggernaut Project — Josh Nelson, Co-Founder

Kaleo Center for Faith, Justice & Social Transformation — Rev. Dr. Steven Newcom, Founding Director

Last Real Indians — Matt Remle, Editor-in-Chief

Leaders for Environmental Action & Foresight — Kineo Memmer, Student Director

League of Conservation Voters — Gene Karpinski, President

Lebanon Pipeline Awareness — Ann Pinca, President

Little Earth Resident Association — Margarita Ortega, Senior Executive Assistant

Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network — Mary Hufford, Associate Director

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Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health — Dr. Mona Sarfaty, Executive Director

Mennonite Central Committee U.S. Washington Office — Tammy Alexander, Director

Michigan Clinicians for Climate Action — Dr. Julie Quinn, Projects Manager

Milwaukee Riverkeeper — Cheryl Nenn, Riverkeeper

Minnesota Council of Churches — Rev. Jim Bear Jacobs, Director of Racial Justice

Minnesota DFL Environmental Caucus — Veda Kanitz, Chair

Minnesota Indivisible Alliance — Amy Engebretson, Chair

Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light — Julia Nerbonne, Executive Director

Minnesota River Valley Audubon Chapter — Matthew Schaut, President

Minnesota Youth for Climate Justice — Priya Dalal-Whelan, Partnerships Director

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Progressive Democrats of America — Alan Minsky, Executive Director

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Property Rights and Pipeline Center — Rebekah Sale, Executive Director

Protect Our Loveland — Sharon Carlisle, President

Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights — Russell Chisholm, Co-Chair

Public Citizen — Kaiba White, Climate Policy & Outreach Specialist

Pueblo Action Alliance — Julia Bernal, Alliance Director

Quaker Earthcare Witness — Shelley Tanenbaum, General Secretary & Director

Rachel Carson Council — Dr. Robert Musil, President & Chief Executive Officer

Rainforest Action Network — Patrick McCully, Climate & Energy Program Director

Rapid Decarbonization Group — Daniel Horen Greenford, Research Director

RapidShift Network — Cheryl Barnds, Co-Chair

Renewables Now Loveland — Jane Clevenger, Co-Founder

Resolution Media Fund — Mark Lichty, President

Responsible Drilling Alliance — Robert Cross, President

Rogue Climate — Allie Rosenbluth, Campaigns Director

Sacred Places Institute for Indigenous Peoples — Maura Sullivan, Just Transitions Program Director

Saint Matthew's Green Team (Baltimore) — Dr. James Cleghorn, Chair

San Antonio Bay Estuarine Waterkeeper — Diane Wilson, Waterkeeper

San Diego 350 — Pia Piscitelli, Public Policy Co-Chair

San Luis Valley Ecosystem Council — Christine Canaly, Director

Sanford-Oquaga Area Concerned Citizens — Gail Musante, Member

Save Our Illinois Land — Deni Mathews, Chairperson

Save RGV — Bill Berg, Member

Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education — Kimberly Empson, Educator

Science for the People (Twin Cities) — Julia Brokaw, Member

Seeding Sovereignty — Janet MacGillivray, Executive Director

Seven Circles Foundation — Michael Stocker, President

Seventh Generation — Joey Bergstein, Chief Executive Officer

Shift Action for Pension Wealth & Planet Health — Adam Scott, Director

Showing Up for Racial Justice Westchester — Mary Saliani, Coordinating Committee

Sierra Club — Michael Brune, Executive Director

Sisters Health & Wellness Collective — Asantewaa Gail Harris, Solution Builder

SoCal 350 Climate Action — Jack Eidt, Co-Founder

Social Eco Education Los Angeles — Martha Camacho Rodriguez, Director & Educator

Socialist Resurgence — John Leslie, National Committee

Society for Conservation & Sustainability of Energy & Environment in Nigeria — Dr. Uzodinma Adirieje, President

Socio-Ecological Union International — Sviatoslav Zabelin, Coordinator

Solidarity INFO Service — Michael Eisenscher, Founder & Publisher

Stand.earth — Matt Krogh, U.S. Oil & Gas Campaign Director

Stop the Algonquin Pipeline Expansion — Susan Van Dolsen, Co-Founder

Stop the Money Pipeline — Amy Gray, Co-Coordinator

Students for Climate Justice (New Mexico) — Savannah Wery, Co-Lead

Students of Color Environmental Collective (Berkeley) — Ashley Chu & Jed Lee, Organizers

Student Environmental Resource Center Zero Waste Team (Berkeley) — Cailin Born, Member

Students Protecting America’s Animals & Environment (Houston) — Sofia Bautista, Student

Sullivan Alliance for Sustainable Development — Linda Reik, Board of Directors

Sunflower Alliance — Jean Tepperman, Coordinating Committee Member

Sunrise Dallas — Aaryaman Singhal, Co-Founder

Sunrise Movement — Varshini Prakash, Executive Director

Sunrise Silicon Valley — Ragini Srinivasan, Hub Coordinator & Caitlin MacKie & Ella Norman, Members

TakeAction Minnesota — Elianne Farhat, Executive Director

Talking Across the Lines — Carrie Kline, Owner

Texas Campaign for the Environment — Robin Schneider, Executive Director

Turtle Island Restoration Network — Joanie Steinhaus, Gulf Program Director

Unitarian Universalist Ministry for Earth — Rev. Cynthia Davidson, Chair, Board of Directors

Unitarian Universalist Service Committee — Salote Soqo, Senior Partnership Officer, Climate Justice & Crisis Response

United for Action — Edith Kantrowitz, Board Member

United Church of Christ Environmental Justice Ministry — Brooks Berndt, Minister for Environmental Justice

United Methodist Women — Elizabeth Chun Hye Lee, Economic & Environmental Justice Executive & Climate Justice Lead

United Native Americans — Quanah Brightman, Executive Director

Uplift — Lyrica Maldonado, Co-Director

Upper Valley Affinity Group — Geoffrey Gardner, Communications

Urban Farm and Garden Alliance — Diane Dodge, Official

Urgewald — Heffa Schuecking, Director

U.S. Climate Action Network — Keya Chatterjee, Executive Director

Vermont Climate & Health Alliance — Dan Quinlan, Chairperson

Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action — Dr. Samantha Ahdoot, Chair

Volusia Climate Action — Stephen Baker, Organizer

Vote Climate — Jean Ross, Board President

WALHI Jawa Barat — Meiki Paendong, Executive Director

Water Equity & Climate Resilience Caucus — Colette Pichon Battle & Kalima Rose, Co-Chairs

WaterLegacy — Paula Maccabee, Advocacy Director & Counsel

Wenatchee Interfaith Climate Group — Susan Evans, Member

WESPAC Foundation — Nada Khader, Director

WildEarth Guardians — Rebecca Sobel, Senior Campaigner

The Wilderness Society — Jamie Williams, Chief Executive Officer

Women's Congress for Future Generations — Ann Manning, Director

Women's Earth & Climate Action Network — Osprey Orielle Lake, Executive Director

Women's International League for Peace & Freedom Triangle — Lib Hutchby, Water Committee Co-Chair

Women’s March Minnesota — Ann Curoe, Treasurer

WoMin African Alliance — Samantha Hargreaves, Director

The YEARS Project — Joel Bach, Founder & Executive Director

Young Entertainment Activists — Samuel Rubin, Co-Founder, Director of Impact & Strategy

Youth For Environment Education & Development Foundation — Anish Shrestha, Executive Director

Zero Hour — Zanagee Artis    Founder & Policy Director

Zero Waste Coalition (Berkeley) — Julia Sherman, Chair

198 methods — Drew Hudson, Founder

350 Brooklyn — Sara Gronim, Co-Leader

350 Central Mass — Ken McDonnell, Member Representative

350 Charlotte — Jerome Wagner, Lead Organizer

350 Colorado — Micah Parkin, Executive Director & Amy Gray, Volunteer & JEDI Director

350 Columbia — Elaine Cooper, Administrator

350 Conejo / San Fernando Valley — Alan Weiner, Chapter Lead

350 Connecticut — Ben Martin, Steering Committee Member

350 Dallas — Deborah Nixon, Leadership Team

350 DC — Ntebo Mokuena, Organizer

350 Eastside — Lin Hagedorn, Co-Founder

350 Eugene — Patricia Hine, President

350 Everett — Pam Kepford, Organizer

350 Hawaii — Sherry Pollack, Co-Founder

350 Kansas City — John Fish Kurmann, Lead Coordinator

350 Kishwaukee — Meryl Greer Domina, Co-Chair

350 Madison — Gail Nordheim, President, Board of Directors

350 Maine — Amy Eshoo, Program Manager

350 Merced — Sharon Hoffmann, Founder

350 Midcoast Maine — Gabriel Burford, Regional Coordinator

350 New Jersey-Rockland — Ted Glick, President

350 New Orleans — Renate Heurich, Vice President, Board of Directors

350 NYC — Dorian Fulvio, Steering Committee

350 PDX — Dineen O’Rourke, Campaigns Director

350 Philadelphia — Mitch Chanin, Steering Committee Member

350 San Antonio — Mary Katherine Glass, Member

350 Silicon Valley — Nicole Kemeny, President

350 Spokane — Rebecca MacMullan, Chair

350 Tacoma — Daniel Villa, Volunteer

350 Triangle — Karen Bearden, Coordinator

350 Vermont — Abigail Mnookin, Co-Director

350 Wenatchee — Kevin Kane, Web Manager

350 West Sound Climate Action — Martha Bishop, Co-Leader

350 Yakima — Cyrus Philbrick, Leadership Team

350.org — Natalie Mebane, United States Policy Director

CC:

Gina McCarthy, White House National Climate Advisor

Ali A. Zaidi, White House Deputy National Climate Advisor

John F. Kerry, Special Presidential Envoy for Climate

Lt. General Scott A. Spellmon, Commanding General, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

References:

[1] “Special Report: Global Warming of 1.5ºC,” Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change

[2] “A Giant Step Backward: Carbon Impact of the Line 3 Pipeline,” MN350

[3] “Spills of Diluted Bitumen from Pipelines: A Comparative Study of Environmental Fate, Effects, and Response,” National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

[4] “New price tag for Kalamazoo River oil spill cleanup: $1.21 billion,” Michigan Live

[5] “Dangerous Pipelines: Enbridge's History of Spills Threatens Minnesota Waters,” Greenpeace USA

[6] “Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law in the Matter of the Line 3 Project,” Minnesota Public Utilities Commission

[7] “Minnesota Department of Commerce again appeals approval of Enbridge pipeline,” Star Tribune