{"id":13901,"date":"2021-07-12T19:03:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-12T23:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=13901"},"modified":"2021-07-12T19:09:46","modified_gmt":"2021-07-12T23:09:46","slug":"native-sun-news-today-native-activists-keep-up-pressure-on-pipelines-amid-new-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2021\/07\/12\/native-sun-news-today-native-activists-keep-up-pressure-on-pipelines-amid-new-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Native Sun News Today: Native activists keep up pressure on pipelines amid new lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":" \"Mama<\/a>
Oglala Lakota matriarch Mama Julz (Julie Richards), founder of Mothers against Meth, locked herself to heavy equipment in a July 1 civil disobedience action seeking the president\u2019s cancellation of the Line 3 construction project in treaty-protected territory. Photo courtesy Giniw Collective<\/figcaption>\r\n
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By Talli Nauman<\/div>\r\n
Native Sun News Today Health & Environment Editor<\/div>\r\n
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<\/p>\r\nPARK RAPIDS, Minnesota — As Native oil pipeline foes stepped up pressure for U.S. President Joe Biden to cancel Enbridge Energy Inc.\u2019s Line 3 construction here, backers of another pipeline project announced July 2, that they are suing him for cancelling theirs. You guessed it: TC Energy Corp. is filing a complaint over its failed Keystone XL.

<\/p>\r\nBoth oil industry giants are private Canadian infrastructure builders aiming to boost shipments of tar-sands crude oil, or diluted bitumen (dilbit), from the fracking fields of Alberta Province through the U.S. heartland to Texas Gulf Coast refineries and export facilities.

<\/p>\r\n\u201cTC Energy will be seeking to recover more than U.S. $15 billion in damages that it has suffered as a result of the U.S. government\u2019s breach of its NAFTA obligations,\u201d the corporation said in filing a notice of intent to initiate a claim under the terms if the North American Free Trade Agreement.

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<\/p>\r\nThe 1994 agreement between Canada, the United States, and Mexico allows businesses to pursue economic damage payments from signatory governments whose actions contribute to companies\u2019 failures to realize anticipated profits. In this case, the action was Biden\u2019s fulfillment on his first day in office of his campaign pledge to revoke KXL\u2019s Presidential Permit.

<\/p>\r\nThe pledge responded to demands of Lakota and other Native nations and grassroots constituents who objected to being left out of consultations required under Indian treaty and environmental law obligations. Treaty law violations are also at the root of Anishinaabe tribes\u2019 lawsuits and water protectors\u2019 Summer of Resistance to Line 3.

<\/p>\r\n\u201cThis pipeline is a violent assault on Indigenous people and their treaty rights — and a climate catastrophe that threatens all of us,\u201d Rainforest Action Network Executive Director Ginger Cassidy proclaimed as she risked arrest July 1 for helping halt construction in a civil disobedience action.

<\/p>\r\n\u201cClimate chaos is already causing real world suffering, and massive new fossil fuel expansion like this is completely reckless. Biden and the banks financing this project must withdraw support for Line 3 immediately,\u201d she added.

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