"Tracking the Tar Sands: A Tri-City Youth Tour"
Join the tour from August 20th-22nd in Sarnia, Detroit and Windsor
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We call on the Government of Canada and the Government of Alberta to take the necessary steps to invoke a MORATORIUM on the further expansion of the Alberta tar sands until a set of basic environmental and social conditions are satisfactorily achieved.
Read Moratorium Now! --- 6 good reasons for bringing a halt to the expansion of the tar sands [a backgrounder]
Read the Fueling Fortress America Report
Read A Dirty Little Secret
There is something that you can do about the Alberta Tar Sands! We need to let our government and industry officials know that we are aware of what is happening and what we want done about it, by sending an electronic letter.
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TAR SANDS SHOWDOWN IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE!
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"Tar Sands Showdown”
By: Tony Clarke
Canada's oil patch is booming. The Alberta tar sands have become the number one foreign oil source for the United States, replacing Saudi Arabia. Within the next 15 years, Canada will be pumping four to five times more crude than today from the tar pits of northern Alberta into the US market. The tar sands are key to the claim that Canada is the new "energy superpower".
As the new backbone of Canada's economy, the tar sands are bound to define and shape Canada's role and destiny as a nation in the twenty-first century. What is lacking is independent, reliable information on the host of questions raised by the tar sands - and thoughtful analysis of the issues they raise. What is the real cost to Albertans and to Canadians? How far are we willing to go to fuel America's oil addiction? What will the ecological and social impacts be? What can be done to build an alternative energy future in an age of global warming.
Tar Sands Showdown provides a tool for stimulating public discussion and debate about these important issues.
You can check out Tony Clarke on YouTube talking about the tar sands
And for some great photos taken of the tar sands CHECK OUT
http://www.egamiimage.ca/alberta_tar_sands.html
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News Updates
Enbridge ramps up to build
Posted: July 3, 2009July 3, 2009, Superior Telegram--Enbridge Energy is gearing up for construction of two pipelines...Read More
Community and Public Health Advocates Halt Chevron Refinery Expansion at Richmond, CA
Posted: July 3, 2009Martinez, CA – Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Barbara Zuniga has ordered an injunction...Read More
Tribal members fight Enbridge oil pipeline
Posted: July 2, 2009John Myers, June 29, 2009, Duluth News Tribune--Saying the environmental damage to their native...Read More
Canada fails climate change report card
Posted: July 2, 2009Tiffany Crawford, July 1, 2009, Canwest News Service, OTTAWA -- Canada is doing the least of any of...Read More
Shell To Become Most CO2-Intensive Oil Co -Study
Posted: June 30, 2009James Herron, June 29, 2009, Dow Jones Newswires,LONDON (Dow Jones)--Royal Dutch Shell PLC...Read More
Carbon capture for oilsands: expensive, unproven, distracting
Posted: June 30, 2009David Thompson, June 29, 2009, Freelance--Environment Minister Rob Renner is now hoping that an...Read More
Pipelines are Forever: Why We Delivered the World's Dirtiest Oil to Secretary Clinton
Posted: June 30, 2009Todd Paglia, June 25, 2009, The Huntington Post--Seeing the future is hard enough--but can you...Read More
A public tarring in Saudi Canada
Posted: June 30, 2009Andrew Nikiforuk, June 28, 2009, Toronto Star--Earlier this month, Dr. John O'Connor, a dedicated...Read More
Tar Sands watch is a part of the Polaris Institute. Polaris is designed to enable citizen movements to act for democratic social change on major public policy issues in an age of corporate driven globalization.