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SUMMARY:Defund Line 3: Expose Greenwashing Day of Action
DESCRIPTION:\nJoin the Action:\nOn Friday, August 13th, activists around the country will organize actions & protests at the branches, offices, and headquarters of the banks funding Line 3. We’re calling for activists to use an “Expose Greenwashing” theme in their actions to call out the recent BS “sustainability” loans that banks have given to Enbridge.\nThere are two ways that you can get involved:\n\nFind an action near you, and RSVP to attend.\nCan’t find an action near you? Organize one! Once you register to host an event on Action Network, we’ll be in touch to support you with an Action Toolkit & support calls to support you in your organizing.\n\nOrganizing Resources:\n\n#DefundLine3 – Art Kit ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E9Y4mPUMzV3b2WvhvHP31Bkdj0cLCCtCwdlGj0yYjE4/edit?ts=60511efc )\n#DefundLine3 – Organizers’ Toolkit ( https://docs.google.com/document/d/186hZPTaVtq9Jsj_ZByx36dH6FA8vhF79-U8EV0lty7A/edit ) (Note: This is the Organizers’ Toolkit from the May 7th Day of Action; we will update the toolkit with ideas for “greenwashing” specific actions by no later than August 4th)\n\nWhy this action?\nEnbridge is building Line 3, a pipeline that would result in a 10% expansion of the tar sands and have the same climate impact as fifty new coal-fired power plants. Yet last month, major banks, such as JPMorgan Chase and Citibank, facilitated $1.5 billion in so-called sustainability loans to Enbridge.\nThis is greenwashing at its worst — so we’re calling for a Day of Action on Friday, August 13th to call it out. Can you join us by organizing a #DefundLine3 – Expose Greenwashing action in your community?\nSustainability-linked loans sound good, but when you look more closely you’ll see they’re close to meaningless. Enbridge’s “sustainability” loans reward the company for reducing emissions from its buildings and vehicles, but do nothing to address the oil that flows through its pipelines and is responsible for 99% of its climate pollution.\nIn other words, according to Wall Street, so long as Enbridge uses electric vehicles and solar power to build their oil pipelines, that’s fine.\nThis kind of corporate greenwashing is the new climate denial. Even ExxonMobil, the most vicious of climate-denying fossil fuel companies now knows ( https://www.channel4.com/news/revealed-exxonmobils-lobbying-war-on-climate-change-legislation ) that outright climate denials isn’t feasible. So they’ve moved to lobbying behind closed doors and supporting false solutions that won’t actually reduce fossil fuel usage.\nBanks are doing the exact same thing. Last year, as some of its top executives were writing op-eds boasting about how their bank is fighting climate change, JPMorgan Chase was also quietly loaning billions to fossil fuel companies and lobbying ( https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2021/04/jpmorgan-secretly-emailed-the-trump-administration-about-bailing-out-the-oil-industry/ ) the Trump Administration to spend billions more bailing out the oil industry,\nWill you join us on August 13th for the Defund Line 3 – Expose Greenwashing Day of Action? If you register an action on the Action Network map, an organizer will be in touch to support you with resources.\n\n
URL:https://climatechallenge.ca/events-campaign/defund-line-3-expose-greenwashing-day-of-action/
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