แดเนียล เพลนวิว (แดเนียล เดย์-ลูวิส) ผันตัวเองจากนักทำเหมืองเงินที่สิ้นเนื้อประดาตัวมาเป็นนักธุรกิจน้ำมันผู้ร่ำรวย เมื่อ แดเนียล ได้รู้ความลับว่าเมืองเล็ก ๆ ที่ออกไปทางตะวันตกนั้นมีแหล่งที่มีน้ำมันปริมาณมหาศาลไหลซึมออกมาจากพื้นดิน เขาจึงพาลูกชายของเขา เอช ดับเบิ้ลยู (แมทท์ ดิลลอน) นั้นมุ่งหน้าไปที่ ลิตเติลบอสตัน
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.
When a proposed pipeline creates hostilities between residents of a small town, a newly-arrived forest ranger must keep the peace after a snowstorm confines the townspeople to an old lodge. But when a mysterious creature begins terrorizing the group, their worst tendencies and prejudices rise to the surface, and it is up to the ranger to keep the residents alive, both from each other and the monster which plagues them.
Wisconsin's tribe's ongoing fight to protect Lake Superior for future generations. "Bad River" shows the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's long history of activism and resistance in the context of continuing legal battles with Enbridge Energy over its Line 5 oil pipeline. The Line 5 pipeline has been operating on 12 miles of the Bad River Band's land with expired easements for more than a decade. The Band and the Canadian company have been locked in a legal battle over the pipeline since 2019.
The “Prophecy of the 7th Fire” says a “black snake” will bring destruction to the earth. For Winona LaDuke, the “black snake” is oil trains and pipelines. When she learns that Canadian-owned Enbridge plans to route a new pipeline through her tribe’s 1855 Treaty land, she and her community spring into action to save the sacred wild rice lakes and preserve their traditional indigenous way of life. Launching an annual spiritual horse ride along the proposed pipeline route, speaking at community meetings and regulatory hearings. Winona testifies that the pipeline route follows one of historical and present-day trauma. The tribe participates in the pipeline permitting process, asserting their treaty rights to protect their natural resources. LaDuke joins with her tribe and others to demand that the pipelines’ impact on tribal people’s resources be considered in the permitting process.