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Strong Women: Protecting the Water and the Wild Rice with Tania Aubid and Shanai Matteson

Shanai Matteson
Beautiful quilted banner made for #StopLine3 by radical resistance family at @million_artist_movement

We continue to cover the complex story of the Line 3 Pipeline from Enbridge Energyin northern MN.  We talk with water protectors, Enbridge employees and workers, scientists and journalists reporting from the scene. 

Resources:

Welcome Water Protectors

RISE coalition

Indigenous Environmental Network

Honor the Earth

Why Treaties Matter

StarTribune article "Opponents of Enbridge's Line 3 Construction Make Last-Ditch Effort at River's Edge"

MN Reformer "Oil and Water: Resistance, Construction Intensify on Enbridge's Line 3 Pipeline

Strong Women is made possible by the MN Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the citizens of Minnesota.

 

Heidi Holtan is KAXE's Director of Content and Public Affairs where she manages producers and is the local host of Morning Edition from NPR. Heidi is a regional correspondent for WDSE/WRPT's Duluth Public Television’s Almanac North.