Will Canada’s oil boom be an environmental bust?
Posted: August 27, 2008Rob Gillies, August 25, 2008, Tehran Times -- The largest dump truck in the world is parked under a...Read More
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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.
Latest from Polaris
Polaris Institute, with the Parkland Institute released a report entitled Freezing in the Dark: Why Canada Needs Strategic Petroleum Reserves. Canada is currently the most vulnerable country in the industrial world to short-term oil supply crises, and we need to establish strategic petroleum reserves to remedy the problem.
The report points out the precariousness of current global oil supplies, especially given current tensions in the Middle East, and fact that Canada imports close to 1 million barrels of oil per day to supply the needs of central and eastern provinces.
It is available from http://www.polarisinstitute.org/eastern_canada_vulnerable_to_oil_shortag...
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A growing coalition of individuals and organizations have released a common statement calling the AB government to cease approving tar sands projects. We are calling, with one voice, for the Alberta Government to take the first step. The time is now to stop the uncontrolled oil sands development and deal with the environmental and social concerns that it has created.
Regardless of the reason, there is one thing we all agree on - the first step is to stop adding to the problem.
We are now seeking individual and organizational signatures to this statement in order to show a groundswell of support emphasizing our collective belief. Please sign the petition and join to growing number of voices calling for no new approvals on oil sands development!
Petition powered by ThePetitionSite.com
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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.