For a man whose first claim to fame was directing a movie about a robot Armageddon, James Cameron can still appreciate a good machine. Since the success of his film Avatar, Cameron has become an outspoken environmentalist, but he's also an engineer at heart, and as we sit in a helicopter hovering above northern Alberta's limitless boreal forest — taking an airborne tour of the mines and pipes and rigs that are rewriting the rules of the great oil game — he can't help but marvel at the sight below. This is Canada's oil-sands country, home to the world's second biggest petroleum reserves after Saudi Arabia, and Cameron has come here at the invitation of the local First Nations indigenous community, which fears what the mining and waste are doing to its land. "I hadn't realized just how extensive it is," he says. "But my question is whether it should be done faster or slower?"
US Tribal Leaders Present President Obama with Mother Earth Accord Opposing Keystone XL
US and Canadian Indigenous Peoples United To Stop Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline - Monday, December 5, 2001 - READ NOW.
Mother Earth Accord
Tribal governments in the U.S. and First Nations in Canada are invited to sign-on.
The contacts for U.S. sign-ons:
Marty Cobenais, Keystone XL Pipeline, Organizer
(218) 760-0284 Email:ienpipeline@igc.org or
Kandi Mosset, Native Energy & Climate Program Organizer
(701) 214-1389
Email: ienenergy@igc.org
Clayton Thomas-Muller Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Organizer
(613) 237 1717 ext. 106
Email: ienoil@igc.org
Barret Lenoir or Daniel T’seleie at the Dene National Office (867) 873-4081
Read Mother Earth Accord
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We won one battle against big oil, but not the war: Statement of IEN on the Obama Administration decision on Keystone XL Pipeline.
November 10, 2011
Mother Earth Achieves a Victory Today with Obama Administration Decision to Delay the Keystone XL Pipeline Decision
Landowners Criticize Nebraska’s Governor & Senators for Drinking TransCanada’s Tar Sands Kool-Aid*
Citizens Call for Keystone XL to Be Blocked
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Native American and Canadian First Nations Took Part In Largest Act of Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone XL Pipeline
Keystone Pipeline Faces Indigenous Trans-Border Opposition
Geoff Dembicki, Special to CorpWatch - October 4th, 2011In mid-September this year, as sharp winds howled across the Great Plains, indigenous leaders from either side of the U.S. –Canada border held an "emergency meeting" in the basement of a South Dakota casino. They came from all over - one flew in from Canada's frigid Great Bear Lake near the Arctic Circle, a husband and wife drove east on Highway 18 from their reservation, and several more drove west, on Interstate Highway 90.
