With the Dakota Access pipeline's permit under reconsideration and the Keystone XL pipeline canceled, LINE 3 is a last gasp at keeping the filthy tar sands industry alive. The science isn't debatable: To counter mounting climate catastrophes, and to hold global warming to the Paris accords' limit of 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) tar sands must stay in the ground.
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This Friday, Sept. 24 is Global Climate Strike Day.
Climate: What Can We Do?
STOP LINE 3* OIL PIPELINE march and rally in BURLINGTON
Please join us this Friday, Sept. 24 for a March@3:15 at City Hall Park, Burlington. Rally @5:00 at Battery Park Burlington with speakers including Bill McKibben and frontline activists, People's Kitchen, musicians, DJ and more.
* LINE 3 is an oil pipeline, built to carry the most corrosive and carbon-intensive tar sands fossil fuel. Enbridge is running these pipes through Minnesota, crossing the Mississippi, many other bodies of water and wetlands, and indigenous land in violation of Native American treaties.
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Sponsors include: 350VT; Essex Resists; Extinction Rebellion VT; Climate Justice Team of First UU Society of Burlington; Institute for Social Ecology; People's Kitchen; Upper Valley Affinity Group; VT Interfaith Power & Light
Watch the weather, come prepared with rain gear if needed. If it looks like rain, bring a pop-up tent to Battery Park if you have one. And of course, when not able to social distance, please wear a mask.
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