Let’s slow down, breathe, listen, look and feel. Only then will we understand our place in the world and what we must do to live well on this small blue dot spinning in an enormous universe. Continue reading David Suzuki: Let’s slow down, for the sake of ourselves and our planet
Neil Young’s Honor the Treaties concert series supporting First Nations’ legal challenges against the tar sands. Continue reading Neil Young supports Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation’s tar sands fight
Neil Young’s Honor the Treaties concert series supporting First Nations’ legal challenges against the tar sands. Continue reading Neil Young supports Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation’s tar sands fight
Why, when so many people oppose the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline project, would government and industry resort to such extreme measures to push it through? The problems with the plan… Continue reading China deal and budget sacrifice democracy to short-term goals
Fort McMurray – Suncor Energy Inc. pleaded guilty to two violations of section 36(3) of the Fisheries Act for the deposit of a deleterious substance into waters frequented by fish and was fined $200,000. Continue reading Suncor fined $200,000 for violating the Fisheries Act
Edmonton – After two years of cross-Atlantic campaigning by Greenpeace against Statoil’s tar sands investments, Statoil today announced it is selling 40 per cent of its interests in the Alberta tar sands project in Canada. Continue reading Statoil sells interests in Alberta’s tar sands
Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta
captures the intersecting storylines of a remarkable cast of characters
eager to cash in on the oil boom in Fort McMurray, Alberta. Washington
lobbyists, Newfie pipefitters, Chinese investors and Norwegian
industrialists descend on tar-soaked “Fort McMoney”, a modern-day
Eldorado, where rents are sky rocketing and cocaine abuse is four times
the provincial average. Up for grabs – a stake in a $100 billion energy
bonanza and Canada’s economic sovereignty.
Read more about this documentary on the CBC.
Continue reading “Tonight on Doc Zone: Tar Sands: The Selling of Alberta”
