Video: Chairman Fairbanks, Attorney Frank Bibeau Press Conference 09/29/21 at Clearwater River
A press conference was called on September 29, 2021 after press release announced on September 27, 2021 calling on CODE RED "President Biden DNR and Gov. Walz Unwilling to Stop Line 3 On-going Waters and Wetlands Contaminations."
Present is Firelight Encampment at Clearwater River with Rise member Dawn Goodwin, drone camera master Ron Turney, Chairman of the White Earth tribe Mike Fairbanks, Attorney Frank Bibeau and Annette Johnson Treasurer from Red Lake Band of Ojibwe.
"Enbridge Line 3 construction continues to violate federal 404 and state 401 clean water act permits in Minnesota because the DNR, MPCA and the U.S. Corps of Engineers are unwilling to stop the violators, Enbridge Line 3."
This is the Red Lake Band, White Earth Nation leadership and tribal members of the 1855 Treaty Authority response to the violations Enbridge conducted with their Line 3 construction resulting frac-outs and an aquifer breech of over 24-million gallons of water.
In a related legal effort to Stop Line 3 construction Manoomin (wild rice) and Water Protectors have filed for another Preliminary Injunction, this time in White Earth Tribal Court of Appeals against the Minnesota DNR to cease all surface and groundwater drawing permits and all discharge and dewatering permits . . . all wanton waste of fresh water related activities.