An international assembly of grassroots water protectors, clean air-advocates, and anti-fossil fuel organizers secured a meeting with the Canadian Consulate in Detroit on Tuesday, May 14th at 12:00 noon. This marks the most recent step in ongoing efforts to stop Enbridge tar sands pipelines in the great lakes region.

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At the meeting organizers will deliver:

• A rebuttal letter to the 1977 treaty that Canada has invoked in order to keep Line 5 running despite ongoing trespass on sovereign tribal land and the revocation of Enbridge's easement in the straits of Mackinac, and

• An ultimatum issued by Canadian organizers vowing to launch as campaign of civil resistance if the Canadian government does not implement a plan to shut down Line 9 in a timely manner. (Read the English translation here.)

Organizers will be asking that the Consulate staff:

• Urge their boss - Minister of Foreign Affairs Mélanie Joly - to retract her ministry' use of the 1977 pipeline agreement to perpetuate Line 5, and

• Urge Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson to announce a plan to close the Line 9 before 2030 by reducing its flow by at least 20% per year, starting now.