Four Necessity Valve Turners -- Enbridge Line 4 Shutdown
Channel: Four Necessity
Date: 05/02/2019

On February 4, 2019, the Four Necessity Valve Turners succeeded in shutting down Enbridge Line 4 in Northern Minnesota. 

#CatholicWorker activists had notified Enbridge of their intentions to disable the pipeline prior to entering the site. After assessing the manual override on the pipeline valve, they began hanging holy objects representing various faith traditions on the fence surrounding the site. As Michele describes the power of the holy objects,  the pipeline valve is remotely engaged, presumably by Enbridge, to block the Line 4 pipeline.

The group released a statement prior to the action stating, in part:

"The recent scientific study on climate change presented to the UN indicates that the threat of irreversible damage and destruction to our planet is imminent. Therefore, having exhausted all legal and political avenues, and having found those avenues lethally inadequate either to curb our dependency on fossil fuels or to stop its expansion, we find it necessary to take this direct action of turning off the flow of poisonous tar sands oil."

More information and ongoing updates:
http://bit.ly/4necessity

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