PARK RAPIDS, Minn. (KFGO) – Actress Jane Fonda met with protesters of the Line 3 oil pipeline replacement Monday.
Fonda and civil rights lawyers joined Winona LaDuke of Honor the Earth and Tara Houska of the Giniw Collective to support efforts in trying to stop the project.
“We were driving down the highway and pulled over to see the impacts of the nearly 1 million barrels of tar sands per day being brought from Alberta, Canada to Superior, Wisconsin by Enbridge, a Canadian pipeline company responsible for the largest inland oil spill in the US,” Fonda said.
Work has already begun on the multibillion-dollar Line 3 replacement project which stretches for more than 300 miles across northern Minnesota. More than 3,000 people from around the country are working on the project.
Enbridge began work on the pipeline on Dec. 1 and has said it anticipates that construction will take six to nine months.
