On Sunday the 29th of March, water protectors from near and far opened a day long sugar bush to boil sap, make maple sugar, and resist the rerouting project of Enbridge’s Line 5. Active construction of the new pipeline path, cutting through sensitive wetlands upstream of the Bad River reservation, started at the beginning of March.
Enbridge plans to drill under the Bad River twice at the formerly public park where the sugar bush was held. Protecting the river and the water, as Edith Leoso says in this video, is all up to the people. The traditional harvesting and processing of maple sugar offers us all lessons: reminding us to be sweet in cold times, and to give thanks for the gifts we all have as part of creation.
From the Bad River reroute to the tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac, the continued operation and expansion of the outdated Line 5 pipeline is a threat to the Great Lakes and all the life that depend on them. Not Needed! Not Safe! Shut down Line 5!