Free Film Screenings of Bad River: Oil & Gas Company Enbridge Trespassing on Indigenous Land

Oil & gas company Enbridge is actively trespassing on Indigenous land. The Bad River film follows the story of Bad River Band and its ongoing fight for sovereignty, a story which unfolds in a groundbreaking way through a series of shocking revelations, devastating losses, and a powerful legacy of defiance and resilience which includes a David vs. Goliath battle to save Lake Superior, the largest freshwater resource in America.

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Come out to our FREE Screenings in Toronto and Montreal – Members of the Bad River Band will be in attendance to speak:

  • Toronto: Thurs Jan 30, 6 pm, Innes Town Hall (UofT) 2 Sussex Ave
  • Montreal: Sat Feb 1, 1 pm, College Ahuntsic, Espace le vrai monde, 9155 Rue St-Hubert PLEASE SIGN UP TO ATTEND.

More about this issue from the End Line 5 Coalition’s recent article:

Enbridge’s horrible track record with oil spills

Enbridge has a horrible track record when it comes to oil spills, and consistently gaslights Indigenous Nations by downplaying the risks posed by Line 5. Significant spills have already occurred along the Line 5 route across Michigan. It’s not a matter of if, but rather when, the next spill will happen.

The fossil fuel company claims it can prevent Line 5 from spilling into high-risk areas such as the Straits of Mackinac. However, expert models have shown that in the event of a spill, it would take Enbridge at least 13.5 minutes to shut off the pipeline in this area — where currents can be ten times the strength of those at Niagara Falls.

In that time, over 1 million litres of oil would gush into the Great Lakes, engulfing up to 1100 km of shoreline across the Straits, Lake Michigan, and Lake Huron with dirty tar sands oil. And that’s in a best-case scenario. In 2010, it took Enbridge 17 hours to stop oil from bursting out of one of its pipelines into the Kalamazoo River, resulting in one of the largest inland oil spills in U.S. history.

Enbridge portrays itself as a “responsible corporate citizen”, but above all, it is the owner of the world’s largest crude oil pipeline network and in the business of moving fossil fuels.

The Anishinaabeg: Great Lakes caretakers and guardians for 13,000 years

Amidst global freshwater, climate, and biodiversity crises, we must honour and remember that it is Indigenous Nations of the Great Lakes who are the original stewards of these water bodies. The Anishinaabeg are motivated to ensure the health of the Great Lakes for present and future generations, as are their close Indigenous kin of many nations across their respective homelands and homewaters.

They have been living in harmonious relation with these great freshwater lakes for at least 13,000 years, and are motivated by the Seventh Generation Principle, which teaches that the decisions we make today must ensure a healthy earth for the next seven generations to come. This Principle teaches us that we all have roles and responsibilities to be in good relation with the earth and be good ancestors for those still to come…”

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We’ve also covered in several podcast episodes how we have reliable renewable options for energy we can build right now across Canada that generate far more employment and are better for national economic security and local economies than oil and gas investments.

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