Minnesota Women's Press

Women Are the Protectors

Women Are the Protectors

When Enbridge comes in, there are big bulldozers, excavators, backhoes, and people that walk through the forest beheading trees before they come back for the rest. They are coming at the rivers with a high directional drill: the Mississippi, the Willow, the Shell, the Little Shell, the Crow Wing — 22 river crossings. They plan to shove in a 36- inch pipe, so it can move 915,000 barrels a day of the dirtiest oil in the world across 337 miles of Northern Minnesota to Lake Superior. All for a dying industry.