under enbridge's permit with minnesota's public utilities commission, enbridge must reimburse public safety agencies for expenses at work sites, especially costs for policing protests. last november, a minnesotan sheriff's office requested tens of thousands in reimbursements for additional riot gear and weapons. winona laduke says, that funding should be a red flag for anyone who supports the project. >> i am not a criminal. i'm a water protector. at a certain point, someone has to ask what is right about a canadian multinational financing the police fce in your state to put in a pipeline with so much conflict? >> reporter: laduke says a trial da of n foe felawsat eks to halt the project, which is on track to be completed by the end of the year. yet, opponents hope president biden will intervene before then. more than 200,000 people have signed a petition asking him to stop line 3. in the meantime, laduke says, protests will continue. >> imagine if there are 50 or 200 people facing cops, and it's ten below zero. you know what's coming? spring. and more people come-- more water protec

but the enbridge line three hasn't had so much publicity. we've got a standing rock enbridge.se this line three is just as dangerous as the keystone xl. it's bringing terrible tar sands oil from the tar sands in canada across minnesota, underneath the terribly important, vital to their culture, their food, their economy, the wild rice, under 200 bodies of water, across the headwaters of the mississippi to lake superior and then eventually down to the gulf of mexico where it will be exported. this, at a time when we are facing a climate crisis with clear and unambiguous warnings from scientists to say that we have only about ten years to cut our fossil fuel emissions in half and then start a managed phase-out. and, you know, the scientists say we have to keep our warming at 1 1/2 degrees celsius. if it warms beyond that, we pass the threshold and it's out of our control. we have a very small carbon budget left before that tipping point. and the scientists tell us that the oil and the coal and the gas that's already been brought up, developed, we can't even use that if we're to

as been a lot of violence a lot of arrests there but enbridge says it will create fewer disruptions to latin landowners and the environment and this isn't a bomb a year a project supposed to help the environment so its supporters say. right and i think that when we talk about the authority to say such things we really shouldn't be concentrating on a corporation but rather the people who have stewarded and own this land 1st and trees those are the voices that we should be listening to and given the protests and actions that are happening right now allow around line 3 we should really really hone in on the authority of indigenous peoples on this land and listen less to the profits of a corporation what is it exactly it they're protesting in minnesota that's where the violence is that's where the allegations of human sex trafficking for for work has involved the project continuing what is it because it goes all the way to alberta canada through wisconsin you know it's really critical right now that our country puts forward policies to counteract all of these violent developments that are

enbridge, we're very keen to trying to build a bridge to the energy future. >> reporter: so at what pointe going to start with the worst -- we're going to start with the black tar heroin as we detox our way towards being clean. >> yeah. i mean, real challenge here is that we have a demand for energy, and the reality is even as we see great growth in renewables, we're still going to need fossil fuels year to come. >> reporter: after president biden pulled trump-era permits and killed the keystone xl those who lost the battle at fresh rock found hope. those trying to stop the dakota access flow from flowing, just watch the first native american interior secretary getting confirmed and now they pray that the president or a judge will stop line three. >> but that's a much bigger ask. unlike keystone xl which they are starting from scratch, line three is a replacement, and of the 340 miles that will cut through minnesota, 40% of it is already in the ground. >> to outrace a court or a white house order, enbridge is working as fast as the thawing ice and growing process will allow. >> there will

that company, enbridge, is a foreign company, bringing oil fr canada, tarands oil, the worst. we are here to try and stop it. amy: and members of the newly formed unions of musicians and allied workers money held dozens of actions that spotify offices around the world, protesting the streaming companies refusal to increase its payment rate to artist. spotify currently pays most about one third of the said per stream from among the lowest rates of any streaming company. spotify's night has tripled during the pandemic. this is a musician in toronto. >> the biggest streaming service of all of the streaming services, quit paying less. we know you have the end come. we know the shareholders have the income. we have seen the receipts. amy: and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the quarantine report. i'm amy goodman in new york joined by my co-host juan gonzÁlez in new brunswick, new jersey. hi, juan. juan: hi, amy. welcome to all of our lieners and viewers from around the country and around the world. amy: we begin today's show looking at u.s

amy: if completed, enbridge line 3 would carry more than 750,000 barrels of tar sands oil a day through fragile ecosystems -- endangering lakes, rivers, and wild rice beds. construction crews were idled thursday for more than four hours after the land defenders locked their arms together as indigenous water protectors sang and prayed. this is indigenous activist and lawyer tara houska addressing the biden administration. >> we are askinthis administtion jus likwes the administration's prior to do something difrent and same with t indigenous ople. is noenough to jt cancel on project wle othergo throh. no of us a sacrifid zones. its time f change. amy: and tho are somof the adlines. this is mocracy w!, democracow.org, the arantine report. i'm amgoodman. orgia's publicanovernor brian mp has sned a swping elecons billhat civirights groups a blastinas the wst voter suression gislatio since e jim cr era. this comes just months after democrats won two senate seats in georgia and joe biden became the first democratic presidential candidate to win the state in 28 years. the bill grants broad pow

enbridge says this project is creating around 5,000 jobs, boosting the local economy, and according tor. i think so much consternation here is about the pipeline crossing under the mississippi. 30 years ago there was a massive spill here in minnesota. i think people are sort of worried about that. how do you allay those concerns that people have? >> just this past year, i was given a ring that came from one of those accidents from prior years as a reminder that safety is job 1 for us. and what's -- if they're really concerned about safety, we need this pipeline. this is really, like biden says, build back better. this is a modernization project to make sure that pipeline is safe. >> reporter: as spring warms the frozen tundra, all sides in this fight know they are at a precipice. this is the spot where the pipeline is going to go under the mississippi river. you can see the river is thawing every day. it's one more reason that active -- activists believe they're in a race against time. >> what do you want to know about the pipeline under the river? what do you think it could do? >> peo

and canada there and it's a bi project in a way because it's an obama era pipeline and you know enbridge says that actually environmental impacts related to the construction of the pipeline will be primarily related to temporary disturbance to land wetlands and water bodies and obama of course wanted it to happen because it will protect the environment let alone jobs yeah they always go for this this route of you know protect the environment because the old line is leaking it is about jobs you know these very creation of jobs what the reality is is that you. shouldn't start from the threshold of we need this pipeline in the 1st place instead of replacing it pull it out of the ground pull the old leaking line out of the ground and transition away from fossil fuels that's what all this climate crisis and all these different climate folks are saying is we need to transition away from fossil fuels so building one of the largest tar sands infrastructure projects in north america tripling the capacity of line 3 has nothing to do with that it's a brand new project in a brand new route and bridg

. >> reporter: for now, enbridge waits for the weather and protesters hope the white house will hear the thaw. these protests are very much ongoing. tara, who you met at the end of that package, spent the night in jail with about two dozen other activists. i want to read from you the statement we received from the biden administration. quote, president biden has proposed transformative investments in infrastructure that will not only create millions of good union jobs but also help tackle the climate crisis. the bind-harris administration will evaluate infrastructure proposals based on our energy needs, their ability to achieve economic wide net zero emissions by 2050 and their ability to create good-paying union jobs. geoff, it's a statement that includes all of the right words but doesn't really say anything. that's sort of where joe biden is here. he's stuck in the middle. he ran saying that he would make climate a priority, but he is friendly with labor and that goes back a long, long way, geoff. >> a super important story, cal, and i'm glad you brought it to us. >>> coming up, i