Repudiating Damoff's Petition Response: The Truth about Enbridge's Line 5

More than 5,000 individuals and 300 organizations have called on the Canadian government to stop interfering with tribal, state, and federal actions in the US against the 71-year-old tar sands pipeline Line 5. Secretary Pam Damoff issued a response to the petition on behalf of the government. That so-called response ignores nearly all the points made in the petition and offers a litany of easily-refutable falsehoods instead. See below for a rebuttal of those falsehoods.