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Mar 11, 2009
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Mar 6, 2009
TORONTO – Dene, Cree and Metis activists from First Nations affected by Alberta tar sands development made themselves heard in Washington as Canadian Environment Minister Jim Prentice was making the rounds of Capitol Hill.
They hand-delivered a letter to Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., head of the powerful Foreign Relations Committee, and later about 50 young people from Canada demonstrated outside Kerry’s office when Prentice went in.
Clayton Thomas-Muller, Canadian tar sands campaigner for the Indigenous Environmental Network, said the goal was to pre-empt Kerry’s meeting with Prentice and ensure the senator got a complete picture of the disastrous effect of the tar sands on environmental and human rights.
“Pollution from these projects are adversely affecting peoples’ health, way of life and violate established treaty rights,” says the letter signed by Melina Laboucan-Massimo, of the Lubicon Cree Indian Nation, Gitz Crazyboy of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation and Myron Lameman of the Beaver Lake Cree Nation.
“Animals are dying, disappearing, and being mutated by the poisons dumped into our river systems. Our traditional lands and water houses our culture. They are one and the same. Once we have destroyed these fragile ecosystems we will have also destroyed our peoples,” the letter adds. “The tar sands are killing us.”
The activists urged Kerry to focus on renewable energy and energy efficiency in the “clean energy dialogue” between Canada and the U.S., part of the agreement signed by President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Stephen Harper in Ottawa Feb 19.
After half an hour with Kerry, Prentice said, “the subject never came up,” in regards to the tar sands.
Laboucan-Massimo thinks the message is being heard in the U.S. “It’s coming to the point where Americans have to decide – is it about energy security or is it about the life and sustainability of the planet?”
Coming from a community under siege from industrial forestry and oil development on Lubicon territory, Laboucan-Massimo intends to dig in on the tar sands front lines. She’s currently working on a Master’s Degree in environmental studies at York University in Toronto and will be returning to Alberta soon to take up a position as a Greenpeace campaigner.
It was Prentice’s misfortune that his diplomatic mission March 2 and 3 coincided with PowerShift, a youth initiative that attracted 12,000 people to Washington for four days of workshops, protests and lobbying congressional leaders on clean energy.
Another recent strike against tar sands promotion is a long article on Canada’s oil boom in the March issue of National Geographic. “Nowhere on Earth is more earth being moved these days than in the Athabasca Valley,” writes author Robert Kunzig. Four tons of Earth, in fact, for each barrel of oil and the waste water from the process has filled 50 square miles of tailings ponds.
The article has been criticized by mainstream Canadian politicians, including Liberal Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff, although Kunzig takes pains to depict the prosperity that even First Nations that bemoan the loss of fishing and hunting grounds have gleaned from the development.
Such caveats cut no ice with James Hansen, NASA’s top climate scientist, who in 2006 defied efforts by the Bush administration to muzzle him for sounding the alarm over global warming.
Hansen has called for the phasing-out of coal, the main source of CO2 emissions in the U.S. But the tar sands are even worse, he told Reuters before the Obama visit to Ottawa.
“This unconventional fossil fuel is a total wild card on top of that,” he said. “You just can’t do it, that’s what politicians and international leaders have got to understand. You can’t exploit tar shale and tar sands without pushing things way beyond the limit. They’re just too carbon intensive.”
Obama made no direct comment on the tar sands issue in Ottawa, although he did say that “increasingly we have to take into account that the issue of climate change and greenhouse gases is something that’s going to have an impact on all of us and as two relatively wealthy countries, it’s important for us to show leadership.”
He has since called on Congress to pass legislation he will be putting forward to limit carbon pollution and make clean energy profitable.
He and Harper agreed that one focus of the clean energy dialogue will be on carbon capture and storage (CCS). Although the agreement referred to CCS only in the context of coal-fired plants, the Harper government is touting the technology as a way of scrubbing the tar sands clean.
That’s a notion that Thomas-Muller dismisses as ludicrous. CCS retrofitting may offer benefits for coal plants, but its efficient application is an impossibility for the tar sands, with multiple emissions points, both in the boreal forest and thousands of miles away at refineries all over the continent.
While the current recession has put some expansion plans on hold, Thomas-Muller warns that the infrastructure that’s projected to flow from tar sand development is “insane.”
A massive pipeline grid is to transport fuels to process the tar sands and to take tar sands crude oil to the lower 48 for refining.
New pipeline projects are planned to send the crude oil to refineries in Ontario and Quebec as well as to Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Illinois, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Louisiana, California, Pennsylvania and Texas.
Many of the pipeline projects will traverse traditional aboriginal territories where consultation with First Nations and American Indian communities has been inadequate.
Plans are also in the works for pipelines to take oil to ports in British Columbia for shipping to California refineries, which would involve lifting a moratorium on oil tanker traffic in British Columbia coastal waters.
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“This unconventional fossil fuel is a total wild card on top of that,” he said. “You just can’t do it, that’s what politicians and international leaders have got to understand. You can’t exploit tar shale and tar sands without pushing things way beyond the limit. They’re just too carbon intensive.” I think that he said it very well.
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With the price per barrel of oil down, how profitable is it now to extract oil this way.
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This very ridiculous. The local people must act and tell the truth to the world.
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All the people must sdtand up and fight against this autraicity or in the few yars remaining we will be the blame for letting this happen. stand strong and deliver . Glenn
19384182 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Thursday, Apr 9 at 8:43 AM joesantson wrote ...
I hope they find their demands met. There is nothing more important than environment protection. Websites for sale
19334927 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Wednesday, Apr 8 at 9:52 AM joed56 wrote ...
Time for everybody to explore self sufficient energy options. Thes big companies are ripping off people all the time.. get off the grid... Homemade Energy
19281037 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Tuesday, Apr 7 at 5:39 PM Kuy wrote ...
Good for them, we need more people to stand up for the environment. Things are changing these days, but not nearly fast enough. - Kuy, Programmer, Clinical Trials Software
19254037 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Monday, Apr 6 at 9:06 PM Tim wrote ...
We need to get off oil all together. Electric is the way to go like the Volt. Tim
19204902 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Friday, Apr 3 at 4:38 PM Tom wrote ...
They are right in protesting. Pollution is killing our environment. Tom
19088891 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Thursday, Apr 2 at 7:47 PM 英語 学習 wrote ...
I immirated to Canada a couple of years ago and now I live in Toronto. I chose Canada because I thought it was one of the "green" and "liberal" countries(well, in addition to my wife is Canadian). I geuss no country is perfect perfect... 英語 学習 --------------------------- dog boarding Toronto
19036296 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Wednesday, Apr 1 at 4:12 AM Tom wrote ...
What are you talking about, J c? There are white people all over that feel poor...because they are poor. - Tom
18888367 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Monday, Mar 30 at 12:43 PM J c wrote ...
Maybe white people need to feel how we do as poor people once more... Since they came from it they should have to realize what they are doing in their own history making our dream dead to us.
18771841 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Monday, Mar 30 at 8:09 AM rajesh wrote ...
I completely agree with the fact that we all The article has been criticized by mainstream Canadian politicians, including Liberal Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieffacai berry acai berry oprah
18757412 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Sunday, Mar 29 at 9:56 AM Wambli wrote ...
Why did the indigenous leadership in Canada support the building of the pipe lines that are coming aross in the lower 40, that is desercating our homelands. Is it for money? Money is a powerful mechinism to divide our common interest to protect sacred lands, resources and sites. How, can my family in the North make a political decision without our engagement down here. The sacred sites down here is the connection to the whole prophetic prophecy of our compete unification and freedom from Empire!
18730177 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Saturday, Mar 28 at 10:32 AM Murray wrote ...
I wonder if they manage to get their claims fulfilled. As for me I don't believe that... You may find my ideas at Global economy blog.
18701971 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Wednesday, Mar 25 at 12:40 PM Shaun wrote ...
More power to them. Of course when you're dealing with an issue so dear to the pocketbooks of Alberta and Ottawa they have little to no chance of having any real effect. Shaun anger management help
18527926 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Friday, Mar 20 at 3:53 PM Anonymous wrote ...
I was completely unaware of this! I think it is awesome to fight for what is right. Keep fighting. There is always a better way. Amanda, consultant for cheap checks
18331352 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Thursday, Mar 19 at 7:10 PM Julie Stevenson wrote ...
I completely agree with the fact that we all have an impact on life. Our very existence is detrimental to the earth, in some way, shape or form. There's no way to have a "zero" blueprint. So, hey, I guess, we just do our best, and live out our days as best as possible? :] - Julie, consultant for Free Credit Reports
18288506 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Sunday, Mar 15 at 3:54 AM Mike wrote ...
"The article has been criticized by mainstream Canadian politicians, including Liberal Opposition Leader Michael Ignatieff, although Kunzig takes pains to depict the prosperity that even First Nations that bemoan the loss of fishing and hunting grounds have gleaned from the development." positive thinking
18052076 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Saturday, Mar 14 at 3:33 PM Anonymous wrote ...
Each and every one of has an impact on life; whether we choose to protect, maintain, or submit and be passive.
18038587 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Wednesday, Mar 11 at 7:04 PM Angela wrote ...
Yeah, the pollution must be horrendous. Yuck... Angela Backlinks
17881306 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Wednesday, Mar 11 at 10:47 AM Apatcho Cheied / Sweden wrote ...
Miha, Acehpo, thought on weak ice or strong stone already made a treaty under the eagles, moi. Recognized that.
17847837 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Wednesday, Mar 11 at 8:53 AM Heartlands wrote ...
People in Meade County, South Dakota are asking hard questions about the TransCanada pipeline that weaves it's way around Indian Reservations in South Dakota. Ranchers want to know how will this pipeline that carries corrosive tar sands be monitored and maintained. The pipe line is to thin and who will recover precious prairie that feeds some the best naturally raised beef on hoof. South Dakota sacred lands still suffer with super fund sites from past mining exploitation that aren't cleaned up.
17839767 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Wednesday, Mar 11 at 1:21 AM Kfab wrote ...
It's good to see our northern relatives fighting to protect their homelands.
17829786 Inappropriate? Alert Us!Wednesday, Mar 11 at 12:45 AM Pale Moonlight wrote ...
Yes! Tell the truth to the world, brothers and sisters!
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