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Comment by Ellen on January 7, 2013 at 8:26pm

National day of action against the pipeline!

http://my.firedoglake.com/kitoconnell/2013/01/07/live-tar-sands-blo...

Tar Sands protesters storm Canadian Embassy

http://dc.indymedia.org/newswire/display/154071/index.php

Massachussets

http://january7th.wordpress.com/

Comment by Ellen on October 20, 2012 at 9:39pm

Treaty No. 8, and First Nations,  the basis for a legal challenge to Shell Oil’s mining of tar sands.

No constitutional challenge based on Treaty 8 rights has ever been fully argued before a judge.  It’s a test case that, if successful, could set a precedent for stricter enforcement of treaty rights and change the way industrial development is regulated. More importantly, though, it would embolden indigenous groups all over  Canada, United States, to fight abuses by both industry and government.

 

Shell Canada is psychotic.

 

Sure, “There are First Nations who think the tar sands are great,” “People have jobs. People now can afford to take their kids to Edmonton to go to the dentist. These are luxuries for people. But we have to start weighing the costs.”

 

Those costs—hundreds of toxic tailings ponds, open pit mines, significant emissions and polluted rivers across a giant swathe of Alberta, and the United States—have not been properly addressed. 

 

http://www.nationofchange.org/alberta-tar-sands-illegal-under-treat...

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http://beforeitsnews.com/native-american-news/2012/10/athabasca-chi...

Comment by Ellen on October 15, 2012 at 11:27pm

Please say it isn't so!.......first actual tar sands and oil shale strip-mining operation in the United States. Not far from Moab, Utah, the state has already leased land to a Canadian energy development company that recently changed its name to U.S. Oil Sands. The company plans to mine nearly 6,000 acres in an area of unspoiled wilderness that is also the watershed of the Colorado River, which provides water to more than 30 million people. 

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12027-as-texas-pipeline-blockade-con...

Comment by Ellen on October 7, 2012 at 3:36am

Tense action going down right now at the stop keystone tar sands xl pipeline blockade in east Texas. Activists are taking to the trees, and occupying. http://tarsandsblockade.org/

Comment by Ellen on April 23, 2012 at 12:05pm

Heeeeyyyyyyy Leah!....... I miss your comments....thanks for this one! Hugs back at ya.

Comment by Leah DiMaria on April 20, 2012 at 12:08pm

Say NO to dirty Tar sands! sign any & all petitions,share info. and write blogs/discussions/Forums..Get involved any way & every way you can.

Thanks for another extremely important post,info. and for ALL you do!!

Much Gratitude..hugs ya'

Comment by Ellen on March 31, 2012 at 8:46pm

For every barrel of bitumen that comes out of the ground in Northern Alberta, Canada, another 1.5 barrels of toxic waste is created and dumped into tailings ponds that are carved out of the once pristine wilderness. That waste may now be leaking into the Athabasca river Delta, poisoning indigenous communities for hundreds of kilometers downstream and causing rare cancers once unheard of. The Alberta government and its industry-funded studies say every thing is okay with the water. Independent observers say otherwise. 

 

http://67.192.206.161/blogs/adbusters-blog/david-and-goliath-tar-sa...