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Methane Release, Jailed Activists and ‘Avatar’ Here on EarthEnvironmental activist Mike Roselle faces charges of trespassing, obstruction, contempt of court, and the defiance of a temporary restraining order – so all is going to plan for this Kentucky native. Mike is the author of the book Tree Spiker and the co-founder of several groups including Earth First!, the Ruckus Society and the Rainforest Action Network. He’s just been released from jail in West Virginia for his nonviolent work against mountaintop removal mining with Climate Ground Zero. James Cameron’s 3-D blockbuster movie Avatar is on track to become one of the most watched movies around the world – and that’s allowed many to look at the movie as a way of illustrating the current struggles of indigenous peoples around the world. Sanho Tree of the Institute of Policy Studies and Clayton Thomas Muller, a member of the Cree Nation and the Indigenous Environmental Network, join the conversation. Muller joins us from Canada – where the battle over oil-rich tar sands on native lands mirrors the movie’s plot. Click here to hear the podcast.  Listen to a Hemisphere's Interview on KGNU Radio with Clayton Thomas-Mueller, IEN's Canadian Indigenous Tar Sands Organizer discussing the Alberta Tar Sands and Commentary on COP15. Athabasca to CopenhagenDN! March on Canadian Embassy in Copenhagen to Protest Tar SandsThe Tar Sands BLOW! |
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Canada's bloody oilby George Poitrasguardian.co.uk UK companies are extracting oil from our traditional lands. We believe it's killing us – and that's why I'm attending Climate Camp My people are dying, and we believe British companies are responsible. My community, Fort Chipewyan in Alberta, Canada, is situated at the heart of the vast toxic moonscape that is the tar sands development. We live in a beautiful area, but unfortunately, we find ourselves upstream from the largest fossil fuel development on earth. UK oil companies like BP, and banks like RBS, are extracting the dirtiest form of oil from our traditional lands, and we fear it is killing us. We have come to call the tar sands "bloody oil". This is why, this week, I am coming to London to attend the Camp for Climate Action, with the aim of internationalising the campaign for a complete tar sands moratorium. We believe the extraction of oil from Canada's tar sands is having a devastating impact on our indigenous people. This year, a study confirms that there are elevated levels of rare and other cancers among indigenous residents who live directly downstream from the tar sands activity, and that the contamination of our waters, snow, vegetation, wildlife and fish has grown exponentially in the past five years. Read the rest of this article at Guardian.co.uk |
Cree aboriginal group to join London climate camp protest over tar sandsThe visit is being coordinated by Indigenous Environmental Network, in partnership with people from the Camp for Climate Action. The group will spend a week at the London Climate Camp, which runs from 27th August to 2nd September. They will run workshops and plan anti-Tar Sands actions with UK campaigners. Canadian First Nations seek to highlight UK's 'criminal' role in CO2-heavy oil schemes Members of the Cree aboriginal peoples are to join the Climate Camp protests in the City of London this week in an attempt to draw attention to corporate Britain's "criminal" involvement in the tar sands of Canada. Five representatives from the Cree First Nations are coming to co-ordinate their campaign against key players in the carbon-heavy energy sector with British environmentalists. Eriel Tchekwie Deranger, from Fort Chipewyan, a centre of Alberta's tar sands schemes, said: "British companies such as BP and Royal Bank of Scotland in partnership with dozens of other companies are driving this project, which is having such devastating effects on our environment and communities. Read the rest of the article at Guardian.co.uk |
STOP THE ENBRIDGE OIL PIPELINEMinnesota Tribal Members Fighting To Stop Oil Sands Pipeline From Native LandsClick here for latest news, actions and archivesAlberta Clipper and Canada's Dirty OilListen to radio broadcast by BBC's reporter Jeb Sharp - comments by IEN's Marty Cobenais |
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”British companies are killing us”: Indigenous campaigners join Climate Camp to launch anti-Tar Sands action in the UKFor interviews and further information contact Jess Worth on 07946645726 or jessworth@riseup.net or Clayton Thomas-Muller, Indigenous Environmental Network, (001) 218 760 6632 or monsterredlight@gmail.com.Five indigenous representatives from Canada's First Nations will be joining the London Climate Camp this month [1]. They are coming to team up with UK climate activists, to stop the Tar Sands development in Alberta, Canada [2]. As traditional sources of oil begin to run dry, the oil multinationals are scraping the bottom of the barrel and turning to sources that are significantly more polluting. The Tar Sands is the biggest of these, probably containing more oil than Saudi Arabia. Millions of barrels of oil a day are already being extracted in Alberta, creating lakes of toxic waste so huge that they are visible from space. Lionel Lepine, one of the visiting group [3], said: “Tar Sands is a global phenomenon. It is the largest industrial project in the world. It is also the dirtiest. Tar Sands produce three times as much CO2 per barrel as conventional oil. There's enough under the ground to push us over the edge into runaway climate change. It should be everyone's concern.” Although the Tar Sands are happening in Canada, they are being driven from London's Square Mile. Shell is heavily committed, and BP took a significant stake in 2007. Both companies are financially backed by pension funds from the UK. Meanwhile London's investment banks, such as RBS and HSBC, have helped finance a wide range of Tar Sands projects [4]. This has prompted First Nations from the region to begin forging partnerships with UK campaigners, to internationalise their campaign for a complete Tar Sands moratorium. Click here to read the rest of this press release. SUBMIT YOUR DISSAPROVAL OF TAR SANDS DEVELOPMENT: E-mail a submission of concern about Tar Sands extraction and water use to ALL the addresses below. To: Chair of the Committee: Jim Bezan – Ottawa@jamesbezan.com Cc: Clerk of the Committee: Normand Radford - RadfoN@parl.gc.ca MP Francis Scarpaleggia - scarpf@parl.gc.ca MP Linda Duncan - Duncan.L@parl.gc.ca MP Bernard Bigras – BigraB@parl.gc.ca MP Peter Braid – Braid.P@parl.gc.ca David McGuinty – McGuiDa@parl.gc.ca Mark Warawa – WarawM@parl.gc.ca Blaine Calkins – CalkiB@parl.gc.ca Christian Ouellet – OuellCh@parl.gc.ca Jeff Watson – WatsoJ@parl.gc.ca Justin Trudeau – Trudeau.J@parl.gc.ca Stephen Woodworth – Woodworth.S@parl.gc.ca And PLEASE Cc us at nowaterforoil@gmail.com and Elly@polarisinstitute.org Some questions to think about in writing your submission: How important is healthy water to your life? How does tar sands extraction threaten the health and safety of your water resources? What do you want for Alberta's future concerning water and the tars sands extraction? Who should have the power to decide where water is allocated - the people or the invisible hand of the market? What is the responsibility of government when it comes to regulating our water resources? Should we allocate water to people first or to corporations? As the world is running out of clean, accessible water should we continue to pollute it or protect it for future generations? Your submission can be anything from one page to 10 pages. You can make recommendations to the committee to take action, and include any background information that you may feel would be useful for their understanding on the issue. Click here for more information on guidelines for submissions you can see: |
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