Bon Iver protest Minnesota pipeline at their first show since March 2020
Bon Iver have performed their first live show since March of 2020, headlining the Water Is Life festival in Minnesota to protest the Enbridge Line 3 pipeline.Held at the Bayfront Festival Park in Duluth, the event raised money for Honor The Earth, who aim to stop Canadian oil giant Enbridge from building their proposed Line 3 pipeline expansion.As per Stereogum, the pipeline – which if built, would transport tar-sand oil from Alberta to Wisconsin – “would cut across Minnesota, and it could cause environmental devastation and cold [sic] violate treaty rights of Anishinaabe peoples and nations”.During the band’s set at the Water Is Life festival on Wednesday (August 20), Bon Iver frontman Justin Vernon said: “Being a music fan can just