Three Waters Pipeline Resistance Team is a volunteer-led grassroots group that engages in organizing with a focus on shutting down the Enbridge Mainline system – the largest conduit of tar sands oil in North America – and making it so pipelines that worsen climate change or violate Indigenous treaties are not built.

Our team approaches this work from the standpoint of climate justice and Indigenous rights. We seek to nurture mass movement organizing across a variety of tactics to achieve our goals. We believe in the power of building relationships and solidarity. We know that ordinary people have the capacity to do great things together. We work to build a large base and a broad tent through consistent outreach, skill building, and grassroots empowerment.

Three Waters PRT was formed in 2024 by a group of people with up to a decade of experience fighting pipelines together, and we welcome all who want to bring their energy and skills to this movement. Our name comes from the three-way continental divide in the north of what’s currently known as Minnesota which sends water north to Hudson Bay, east to the Great Lakes and Gulf of St. Lawrence, and south to the Mississippi River and Gulf of Mexico from a single point. For hundreds of years, it has been an important meeting place for both Anishinaabe and Dakota people.