How WinonaLaduke’s seven-year battle to stop a tar-sands pipeline intersects with billmckibben’s campaign to stop JPMorgan Chase from funding fossil fuels
, which focuses on cutting off oil development at the source, by targeting the big banks that fund it. Inhas become the fossil fuel industry’s biggest lender — $196 billion when it went to press, and that number keeps climbing. And for efforts that help expand the breadth of the industry, like new pipelines, Arctic drilling, and deep-sea exploration, JPMorgan Chase has given 63 percent more than any other bank on Earth. One of those projects is Line 3.
The portions of the pipeline that pass through Canada, Wisconsin, and North Dakota have already been approved, but LaDuke has been effectively stalling the Minnesota section. “For seven years we’ve been fighting them in the courts, in the regulatory process, and in the communities,” says LaDuke. In a massive community-organizing effort, nearly 70,000 individual comments were submitted to the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission, and 94 percent were opposed to the pipeline.
“Someone needs to explain to us why 94 percent isn’t enough,” says Suez Taylor, an activist and filmmaker who has worked with LaDuke to document their campaign inThe pipeline is still halted during the ongoing appeals process, and opposition to it is now bolstered by concerns about bringing 4,300 new workers into remote communities of Minnesota during this pandemic. “So we’re going to push really hard,” LaDuke says to McKibben.
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