On 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.
There are two ways that you can get involved:
Find an action near you, and RSVP to attend.
Can’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.
#DefundLine3 - Organizers’ Toolkit (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)
Why this action?
Enbridge 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.
This 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?
Sustainability-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.
In other words, according to Wall Street, so long as Enbridge uses electric vehicles and solar power to build their oil pipelines, that’s fine.
This kind of corporate greenwashing is the new climate denial. Even ExxonMobil, the most vicious of climate-denying fossil fuel companies now knows 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.
Banks 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 the Trump Administration to spend billions more bailing out the oil industry,
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