Follow Winona LaDuke and Honor the Earth the Ride for Mother Earth along the Enbridge pipeline

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Please support and follow Winona Laduke and Honor the Earth -- the Ride for Mother Earth along the Enbridge pipeline begins tomorrow.

Honor the Earth Ride Schedule:

Sept 29th Day 1: Enbridge Ceremony 9AM. Untrailer horses immediately after at Wisconsin-Minnesota state line. Ride to Kiiwenzii camp on Fond du Lac Reservation, (23miles).

Sept 30th Day 2: Ride from Kiiwenzii camp to Brookston (14 miles). Spend afternoon in Brookston. Community events.

Oct 1st Day 3: Ride from Brookston to Floodwood (18 miles)

Oct 2nd Day 4: Ride from Floodwood to Wawina/Swan River (21 miles)

Oct 3rd Day 5: Ride from Swan River to Grand Rapids/La Prairie (23 miles)

Oct 4th Day 6: Ride from Cohasset to Ball Club Powwow Grounds (20 miles)

Oct 5th Day 7: Ride from Ball Club to Bena for rest. Bena to Cass Lake Powwow Ground (36 miles).

Oct 6th Day 8: Rest in Cass Lake

Oct 7th FINAL DAY: Cass Lake to Leonard (31 miles). Option to trailer South of Bemidji, bypass and restart North of Bemidji.

200-230 miles over 9 days, with 1 day of rest on 8th day.

Departure times will be distinguished the night before each departure, and arrival times will depend on the horses

[The Wielding Truth]

1. Thank you Winona & the Lakota people for reminding us to respect our Mother. I will support you.

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2. I hope many give her some $ support

even if it is a little bit.

She helped organize jobs for those on the reservation.

http://www.nativeharvest.com/


Enbridge oil spills could contaminate their wild rice as well has their water.

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3. more info on the Enbridge pipeline

http://www.honorearth.org/news/enbridge-finds-new-obstacles-expansion

this isn't in the national news.. and even the minneapolis news stations haven't been covering the damage that Enbridge is going to do to MN.

There are MN' protesting and still it barely makes the news and then they don't report on the spills and leaks from the current Enbridge production.


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White Earth Reservation, MN - September 5th, 2013 - On Wednesday, September 4th the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission voted to authorize a contested case review on the expansion of the “Alberta Clipper” pipeline, also known as Line 67, which is owned by Enbridge Inc. Enbridge plans to invest $159 million in extra pumping stations to increase capacity by 40 percent to 800,000 barrels per day. In July, Enbridge won PUC approval for a smaller capacity increase in which Honor the Earth’s executive director, Winona LaDuke put forward testimony opposing such actions:

“Line 67 transports tar sands, more specifically, dilbit- diluted bitumen. Dilbit oil requires higher temperatures and more pressure to move the thick sludge and creates a much larger risk of pipe corrosion, significantly increasing the likelihood of spillage. Tar sands oil is 15-20 times higher in acidity than conventional oil and up to 7 times as viscous (thicker and greater volume)…. Expanding pipeline carrying capacity poses an extreme risk for the wetlands of northern Minnesota. This will be an ecological risk, and will be a huge risk to property owners in the North Country, whether tribal governments, tribal members, or any Minnesotan, including those who have an interest in public lands traversed by the pipeline.”

The next step for Enbridge is to appear before an administrative law judge where a contested case hearing will take place. During this hearing Enbridge will have the opportunity to present legal arguments before a judge who will issue findings, the decision on whether to approve Enbridge’s request will be left for the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. In the coming months a number of environmental organizations will be opposing the expansion, citing economic, environmental and social impacts.

Honor the Earth this week is hosting three benefit concerts with the Indigo Girls, a Grammy award winning duo- in Madison, Wisconsin, St. Paul, Minnesota, and Bayfield Wisconsin, where the Enbridge pipeline will be discussed in information and literature. As well, Honor will launch a new set of billboards – on I-35 south of Duluth and on Highway 2 east of Bemidji, regarding the proposed Enbridge expansions. Honor the Earth is also concerned about the newly proposed Sandpiper pipeline intended to carry Bakken, North Dakota field fracked oil through Clearwater, Hubbard and a number of other counties. Enbridge employees are now surveying and intend to purchase 2,000 easements in these counties in the upcoming months. The new Sandpiper line will carry a highly volatile substance of which the most recent explosions were evidenced by the vaporizing of 40 buildings and 47 people in the town of Lac-Mégantic. Quebec. As well, recent publications have documented widespread water contamination issues as a result of the aggressive fracking in the Bakken Oil Fields. The Sandpiper line is also an Enbridge project.

For more information contact Honor the Earth Program Coordinator Thomas Ferrarell at

[e-mail] or 218-375-3200

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4. First Photos From the Ride for Mother Earth

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/first-photos-from-the-rid_b_4014558.html?utm_source=Alert-blogger&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Email%2BNotifications

On Sunday, September 29, allies and supporters of the Ride for Mother Earth met for a drum ceremony and blessing at the Superior Wisconsin terminal of the Enbridge pipeline. If an expansion proposal is completed, the new pipeline will be the largest tar sands pipeline in the world. Honor the Earth, with the support and leadership of founders Winona LaDuke and the Indigo Girls, intends to draw attention to the current expansion, which is under consideration by the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission.