Line 3 – Health Professionals for a Healthy Climate

The Enbridge Line 3 replacement pipeline poses unacceptable human health risks.

This 330-mile, 36-inch pipeline will transport up to 760,000 barrels of tar sands oil per day from Edmonton, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin. This pipeline crosses 192 bodies of water, including the headwaters of the Mississippi River, and valuable carbon-sequestering forests and wetlands were cleared for its construction. The operation of this pipleline puts Minnesota waters at risk from the release of toxic crude oil and chemicals, and the life cycle carbon emissions produced by this pipeline will be equivalent to 50 coal-fired power plants.

Watch to learn how health professionals have been lending their voices to the fight to stop Line 3

Stand in solidarity with the water protectors!

Line 3 cuts through the heart of the Anishinaabe territory in Minnesota, violating treaty rights, damaging sacred wild rice beds, and threatening the health of our Indigenous communities. Indigenous leaders in Minnesota have been leading the movement against Line 3 and are putting their bodies on the line right now to protect sacred land, water, and our climate. As health professionals, we stand in solidarity with Indigenous leaders.

On August 17, HPHC and health professionals across the nation joined together for “Our Water, Our Health: Health Professionals in Solidarity Against Line 3“.

Watch the live stream of our press conference in Mears Park, St. Paul, on our Facebook page.

Watch a highlights video from the press conference

Find information on other ways to support water protectors and the movement against Line 3 here.

For more information, check out these items:

Our June 2020 report on the Health Risks of the Line 3 Replacement Pipeline.

Read our statement condemning police use of chemical and projectile weapons against Indigenous water protectors peacefully demonstrating against Line 3.