NEWS: Council activists and allies travel to the tarsands

NEWS: Council activists and allies travel to the tarsands

 

Dear chapter activists,

 

In late-March BC-Yukon organizer Carleen Pickard and Prairies organizer Sheila Muxlow traveled with a delegation of British Columbians to the northern Alberta tar sands.

 

Please read about this trip in an article by our friends Caelie Frampton and Blair Redlin posted to Canadian Dimension at, http://canadiandimension.com/articles/2008/04/09/1754/.

 

The article notes, "The British Columbians were brought together by the Council of Canadians. They represented Check Your Head, the Institute for Citizen Journalism, the Canadian Union of Public Employees, Greenpeace Canada, the Stop TILMA Working Group, and the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. While in northern Alberta, the group not only flew over the huge strip mines that stretch as far as the eye can see, but also met with a variety of local residents."

 

To read our media release on this visit to the tar sands please go to http://www.canadians.org/media/energy/2008/20-Mar-08.html. 

 

To respond to our action alert opposing the SPP agenda of a fivefold increase in production from the tar sands please go to http://www.canadians.org/action/2007/18-Jan-07.html.

 

To sign on to the ‘No New Approvals’ petition with already more than 2,500 signatures please go to http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/no-new-approvals-on-tar-sands-developments.

 

 

 

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